What Children Must Know  January 21, 2009  By Joe Sobran:  A
bilious letter to my local newspaper accuses the Catholic Church
of “one-issue politics” because she condemns feticide (alias
abortion rights) and allegedly neglects such issues as war,
AIDS, and global warming. The writer asserts that this explains
why the Church is now “imploding.”  You have to give that writer
credit: He displays a fine fluency in cliché. How many people
have, over the centuries, pronounced the Church’s obituary
because she had let the times pass her by! Yet, as of last
Sunday, she was still here. If there was any implosion, I didn’t
notice it.  One reason I remain a believing Catholic is that the
world still hates the Church so much, after two millennia, just
as Jesus predicted. No other religion inspires such hostility so
consistently throughout history. Men are still avidly trying to
stamp her out, by word and deed. As Robert Royal reminds us, the
communist persecution of the Church in the last century was even
more terrible t