The Bishop, the Sister, and a Hard Decision

In Excommunicating Intentions , today’s second On the Square article, Michael Liccione examines the controversy over the Bishop of Phoenix’s declaration that a nun who had approved an abortion had excommunicated herself. It is not, he suggests, so simple a matter of controversialists on both sides have claimed.

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