Why Is Catholic American Laity So Obsessed with the Pro-Life Movement?
By Christopher Zehnder Editor: this is the third News Notes story on a Sullivan member of Miles Jesu. The other two described Andrew Sullivan as seminarian and newly ordained priest. “I need not, perhaps, describe a country that surpasses the United States in technology and social infrastructure,” a country where “everything is new, beautiful, comfortable, and affordable.” But describe it, he did, and in no flattering terms. That country, he said, “is truly a spiritually dead country.” I was speaking (actually corresponding, by e-mail) with Joseph Sullivan, a “local son” from El Cajon who now works as a missionary in Vienna, Austria. In a striking historical irony, Sullivan, a Californian, is working as a missionary in a part of the world that once sent missionaries around the world. He was describing for me what he found in one of Europe’s most prosperous countries — Germany. “There are few children” there, he said, “also very few old people. It was impossible to find a weekday Mass,
Related Questions
- Such posturing for power within the pro-life community is self-defeating. Why can American RTL Action be one wing of the movement without attacking the NRLC for being another?
- Why Is Catholic American Laity So Obsessed with the Pro-Life Movement?
- Is there a connection to the American civil rights movement?
