MSW - suggestion:

You state - "Too often, that balance was neglected, and the “setting apart” seemed to exist for itself, resulting in a pervasive, if always theologically flawed, Jansenism."

That can, and should, be the approach to abortion - vs. pro-birth that is single issue, judgmental, blaming, condemning.  Dialogue about abortion must include *mission* - it is caused by poverty; society's treatment of poor women; rights of women; inequality; birth control; etc.

Suggest that you are SO inconsistent on this issue that it makes today's column one of hypocrisy.