Sunday's postcard, the path to Amarillo, and the courts' collapsing credibility on abortion

April 16

Although I didn’t have a voice in the matter, I’m grateful I was raised Catholic.

If I hadn’t been raised Catholic I wouldn’t be able to write this piece with the leverage of experience it requires. I wouldn’t be so intimately grounded in the contradictions of a powerful church that is as capable of grace as it is capable of the arrogance that undermin…