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            accused of complicity in a variety of moral evils, including the 
            institution of slavery, the rise of the Nazi Party, and even the 
            horror of the Holocaust itself.<br> <br>Historians differ on 
            the degree of blame properly assigned to Catholics. But they all 
            agree on one thing: These evils were the result of Church teaching 
            being ignored by the laity and acquiescent bishops who should have 
            said more and with a louder voice.<br> <br>Will historians a 
            century from now look back on this election as the moment when 
            Catholics in America fully embraced another intrinsic moral evil -- 
            abortion -- directly contradicting their professed beliefs? Will 
            historians say that, after 40 years of strong papal leadership 
            opposing "the culture of death," American Catholics chose to turn a 
            deaf ear? That the U.S. bishops said too little, and with too soft a 
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                  About Scripture |</span> Mark P. 
              Shea</b></font></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br>For some folks, it 
            takes a lot to dispel the myth of the hyper-controlling Church that 
            only permits Bible study among the faithful after the insertion of 
            the Vatican Orbital Mind Control Laser Platform chip in the frontal 
            lobe of the brain. Indeed, it may come as a shock to such folk to 
            discover that the Church offers us only three measly guidelines when 
            pointing the faithful toward reading Scripture for its literal 
            sense. Dei Verbum tells us:<br> <br></span></font>
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              <li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Be especially 
              attentive "to the content and unity of the whole 
              Scripture";</span></font> 
              </li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">read the 
              Scripture within "the living tradition of the whole Church"; 
              and</span></font> 
              </li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">be attentive 
              to the analogy of faith.</span></font></li></ol><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> <br>That's it. <br><br><a rel="nofollow" title="http://inside-catholic.com/080E18111D0017010332131D1E5C111D1F0E43414B40434B0E41444B4247400E400E4044434241414B0E08.aspx" target="_blank" href="http://inside-catholic.com/080E18111D0017010332131D1E5C111D1F0E43414B40434B0E41444B4247400E400E4044434241414B0E08.aspx">Read 
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            Warren</b></font></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="4"><br></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Up here in Canada, from 
            where I am writing, the prime minister called an election on 
            September 7, and we had it on October 14. By the common consent of 
            the five major parties, there was no discussion whatever of 
            abortion, gay marriage, "human rights" tribunals, or any other of 
            the civilizational issues that are, in Canada, decided exclusively 
            by liberal judges. The governing party wasn't going to discuss the 
            economy, either (in fairly good shape after a generation of modest 
            government retrenchment), but then the U.S. financial system began 
            to melt down, so the topic did come up. A nominally "Conservative" 
            Party -- i.e., one that declares itself comfortable with abortion, 
            gay marriage, and "human rights" tribunals that prosecute mainstream 
            journalists who show conservative tendencies -- was duly 
            re-elected.<br> <br>Our Catholic bishops had nothing to say 
            about all this -- or, at least, nothing audible.<br><br><br><a rel="nofollow" title="http://inside-catholic.com/080E18111D0017010332131D1E5C111D1F0E43414B40434B0E41444B4247400E400E404443424144400E08.aspx" target="_blank" href="http://inside-catholic.com/080E18111D0017010332131D1E5C111D1F0E43414B40434B0E41444B4247400E400E404443424144400E08.aspx">Read 
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                  Bean</b></font></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="4"><br></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">"The juice! Don't forget 
            the juice!" my mother-in-law, Dolores, called after me as I made my 
            way down her front steps and toward my car.<br> <br>Her anxious 
            face appeared in the doorway and she thrust a half-gallon bottle of 
            cranberry juice toward me.<br> <br>I didn't want the stupid 
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