text: Does one somehow forget the Roman Catholic litmus test of anti-abortion that first started the intra-Catholic political divisions that play themselves out on NCR almost the same as they do on the "Catholic Integralist" blogs and websites.  
  
  So easy to fall into the trap of casting the other as the deplorable.   Do we progressives bear some responsibility for driving our Romanist sisters and brothers to the extremes of certainty and security to which they have gone with their fortnights of liberty and other militant fundamentalist positions?
  
  If we weren't so focused on trying to convert each other to our respective positions on Catholic theology, governance, and liturgy...perhaps we would be as tolerant as the Eastern and Western Catholic Churches have likewise become.  Then, not being forced into defensive postures, there would be no "crazy conservative" or "crazy liberal" Catholics...just Catholics with diverse ways of being One, Holy,Catholic/universal... https://RiteBeyondRome.com