text: Eliane, I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Cardinal Bernardin was not saying that each of us had to be equally activist in all pro-life activities, but to recognize that they are inseparable from one another. Can we say we are pro-life if we don't care about children living in poverty while we campaign to overturn Roe? Can we be advocating for war, supporting the death penalty, or supporting programs that gut education, food stamps or care for the mentally ill and be considered pro-life? As I understand it, the crux of his position was that they cannot be viewed as independent issues, but as all aspects of the same cloth. It is a strength that people are called to different aspects of Catholic Social Teaching, for each of them is critically important. That is the beauty of the seamless garment - the issues are integrally connected just as we are, just different colors in the tapestry.