Father Andrew Greeley’s got a cogent analysis of the recent statement by U.S. Catholic Bishops on Faithful Citizenship in the Chicago’s Sun-Times.

First off, Greeley says the media got it wrong. The bishops didn’t say the eternal salvation of voters who vote for pro-abortion rights pols is in jeopardy. (The media don’t do nuance very well, says he.) I’ll try to follow up with the good father and see what we (I was in Baltimore and am implicated, I guess) got wrong.

Cutting to the chase (nuance be damned) here’s Greeley’s nut graph:

“I subscribe to the position that abortion, no matter how nearly universal in human history, is morally unacceptable (as is infanticide, which was far more frequent). But I wonder if it is proper or prudent to try to impose this Catholic moral view on a whole society that does not agree with us, especially when we cannot even persuade most of our own people. Might it not be a wiser strategy to strive to persuade the Catholic faithful, four-fifths of whom do not believe that it is always wrong, before trying to make Catholic morality the law of the land?”