My sister, an activist, disapproves of Mother Teresa because she disapproved of abortion. But I think at least Mother Teresa was putting her money where her mouth was, as you say. If you oppose abortion, there are consequences. Who will raise the children whose mothers had decided before their birth they could not afford, for one reason or another, to keep? If you oppose abortion, you had better give them an option.

And this is what drives me apeshit. In times past there were options -- not great options, but at least the Church established and sustained Foundling Homes in every parish. Not today: even as Catholics fulminate against abortion and throw themselves on the pavement before women entering Planned Parenthood clinics, the last institutions for orphans close for lack of money and staff. People who try to open homes for unwed mothers are hounded out by upstanding Catholics, who yell about the sanctity of life but don't want messy pregnant girls living down the street. It's insane.