Reply #62: "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come to me..."

[nuxvomica]

is what Christ said, not "Make little children suffer." I think the archbishop is treading on shaky theological grounds to begin with. The Church has long held that the worst sins are those committed against the innocent. Had the doctor allowed the pregnancy to continue, he would have subjected an innocent girl to much pain and probably death. Confronted with this moral dilemma, the archbishop selfishly chose to frame the issue in terms of his "cause" and thereby increase his own celebrity. That is beyond reprehensible.

OT: Your use of the term "archbishoprick" reminded me that Melville used that spelling in Moby Dick to describe the "office" of the blubber mincer, who was protected from spattering hot oil by a "cassock" made from the whale's dried foreskin. But the "k" is removed in most editions.