The more conservative Catholics who wanted an unchanging church attached themselves to reproductive issues and issues around gender and sexuality: that you’re going to have celibate priests, that you aren’t going to have women priests.
In what ways do the conservative Catholics begin to exert their anti-abortion beliefs with the support of the hierarchy?Ĭatholics do the rosary.Ībortion became, even more so than birth control, the issue that this particular group of Catholics exerts with the support of the hierarchy.