Why does anyone even read the heterodox Sister Joan Chittister anymore? In her latest column for the National Catholic Reporter, she repeats the exultation by Catholics for a Free Choice that most bishops won’t refuse the Eucharist to a publicly pro-abortion politician. She muddles the Church’s teaching on respect for life, asking questions that have obvious answers in the Catechism and many recent documents of the magisterium. She does this because she doesn’t accept them or their authority.
