text: I'll waste no time arguing with you about the Church's teaching on abortion or what you so charmingly refer to as "sodomy," a "sin" committed more often by heterosexuals than homosexuals since there are many more of the former in the world than the latter. You correctly state the church's position. What I will say is that Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. 
  
  As for abortion, the church has taught many things about that during its 2000+ history. Augustine believed that an early abortion is not murder because, according to the Aristotelian concept of delayed ensoulment, the soul of a fetus at an early stage is not present, a belief that passed into canon law. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Innocent III, and Pope Gregory XIV also believed that a fetus does not have a soul until "quickening," or when the fetus begins to kick and move, and therefore early abortion was not murder, though later abortion was. It wasn't until 1869 that Pius IX finally codified present doctrine.
  
  So there.