No One Can Win the Communion Wars Over Abortion

Yesterday, America reported that Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria, S.J., head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had sent a letter to be shared with every bishop in the United States, warning that a proposed discussion over a national policy about pro-choice politicians receiving Communion could "become a source of discord rather than unity." Cardinal Ladaria said that only after an "extensive and serene" two-stage dialogue, first among the bishops themselves and then with pro-choice politicians, should formal discussion of such a policy begin.