Mercy Sister Margaret McBride speaks out in her silence

I, too, am Catholic and have personally vowed not to take communion until Sister Margaret McBride, the nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in December, once again takes her communion. Probably the defenders of child rapists in Rome don't care, but it's important to me...

This passionate Catholic says God bless Sr Margaret.

This was not a decision that privileged one life over another. Any other decision would have guaranteed that two people died; terminating the pregnancy was one step toward giving one of those people a chance to live. There was no chance to save the baby; the only issue was the mother.

Shame on Bishop Olmsted for not understanding that life means BOTH lives, and "protecting life" means protecting at least one of them.

I am not a Catholic, but Sister Margaret makes me proud to be human and part of the same species as she. It is people with courage like hers who move us along as a people. God bless you, Sister. You have made the Christmas season even more blessed through your compassion and courage.

I used to be Catholic, but left the church because the priests in our town said my mom's life was not precious...that birth control to save my mom's life was not ok. I too would have been a child without a mother...Sr. Margaret is a holy person following the religion of Jesus, not a dogmatic bureaucratic religion about Jesus.

I never understood Jesus bringing Lazarus back from the dead but I do now. Jesus was saving a family from suffering. I think Jesus would have done exactly what Sr. McBride did to save six other family members the suffering of losing the mother of the family. I think Sr. McBride got it and Bishop Olmsted did not. The hierarchy of the church is so out of touch with it's own teachings and the needs of the people, who are the church, it needs foundational reconstruction.