More on the Arizona Excommunication

Varioue MOJ'ers have commented on the excommunication of a nun and other members of a Cahtolic hospital ethics committee in connection with a recent abortion.  So I thought readers might be interested in this view expressed by Patrick McCormick, professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga and columnist for the U.S. Catholic.  McCormick's conclusion is that "Catholic moral teaching on this question has become unpersuasive (even unintelligible) to a large number of committed and educated Catholics, and excommunicating a nun will not resolve this pastoral problem, only worsen it, for it suggests that the bishop and the Vatican do not have clear, cogent, and persuasive answers to tough moral questions."