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Should Catholics respect pro-choice people and atheists?
Dear Friends,
 I'm actually trying to have a short break today from Catholica but I couldn't resist drawing attention to this BBC story which Alex Caughey has posted in our forum. Funnily enough I was only musing to myself last night about the depths of my own distaste for some individuals who would call themselves "Catholic" like myself. Sometimes I find myself honestly having more respect for sincere aetheists and non-believers than I do for some of the zealots in Catholicism who would claim to speak in my name. Frankly I do not subscribe to the same tenets of belief or practice that they do and their behaviours I find at times to be morally repugnant and an abomination of what I believe Catholicism stands for or is all about. It is certainly an interesting question that Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor opens up and which I think we might take further in openly discussing our attitudes to some of our co-religionists whom, I respect, are often sincere in their beliefs but who in my own opinion are deeply misguided. I also acknowledge freely that some of them think precisely the same thing about myself and my understanding of what Catholicism means. What do you think about these matters? Join our discussion... <Read the forum discussion (also contains links to the supporting commentaries)>
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