NCReporter pro-abortion Young Voices author could face penalty

While I was away last week, little miss Kate Childs Graham published an article in the National Catholic Reporter entitled "I am a pro-choice Catholic."

I called the first entry of this Young Voices feature, "168 words of forgettable."

Well, Graham's new entry is "704 words of actionable", says my father Canon Lawyer Ed Peters:

Graham published her essay justifying the abandonment of unborn innocents to prenatal slaughter in a widely accessible, indeed internationally accessible, medium. I think that her remarks, considered specifically and generally, "gravely injure good morals" and thus constitute the kind of abuse of the instruments of social communication that renders one liable to a "just penalty" under canon law (1983 CIC 1369).

Finally, and this is what distinguishes Graham's essay from the typical pro-abortion Catholic palaver, by her own words, she vitiates several defenses that might have been raised for such conduct, defenses based on say, one's ignorance of Church teaching, or because one acted without sufficient deliberation (e.g., 1983 CIC 1323-1324). I can scarcely conclude other than that Graham is daring the bishops to do something about her.

And really, if the bishops don't think they have a case, all they have to do is keep reading her....

Graham writing on Academic freedom on Catholic campuses:

"Many administrations at Catholic colleges and universities have similarly succumbed to the pressure of the Catholic right or the bishops."

"My hope is that other administrations at Catholic colleges and universities will follow Fordham’s lead and refuse to succumb to the pressures of the bishops and the Catholic right. Only then will students be able to freely think, be, create, form and grow."

Graham writing on the Catholic support of Proposition 8:

About a month before Proposition 8 passed in California Nov. 4, taking away an array of human rights, and the U.S. bishops decided to team up with the Knights of Columbus to make the “preservation of marriage” one of its key focuses for the next five years, my partner, Ariana, and I made our commitment to one another.

Our marriage was not "legal" by terms of the District of Columbia or the institutional Catholic church. Yet, in our eyes and in the eyes of our friends and family, our union is indeed holy.

That's right - her "partner" Ariana. Graham's title for this essay? "Our Journey to holy union."

So Graham is a gay, absolute-primacy-of-conscience, anti-Church-hierarchy, pro-abortion zealot?

... what a refreshing change from the National Catholic Reporter's Old Voices. Oh wait.