Three options for the countercultural Catholic | National Catholic Reporter

Three options for the countercultural Catholic | National Catholic Reporter by Robert Christian.  MGB: There is the fourth way, which is to realize that the Church needs a counter cultural witness as much as the world does.  This does not water down the Church - rather it perfects it.  Indeed, until we perfect the Church we are attempting to remove the speck from the world's eye before removing the beam from ours.  Frankly, we need to do both, but we cannot be silent on where the Church is wrong - especially when it fails to distinguish between supporting abortion as a form of birth control and simply not making it illegal because doing so would lead to more dangerous back alley abortions (and finally because making first trimester embryos people is legally problematic as it relates to miscarriages),.