Archbishop Chaput rips into the Tablet

Archbishop Chaput of Denver has written a strongly worded condemnation of the recent Tablet editorial urging the US Bishops to support President Obama's healthcare reforms and not to focus on the "specifically Catholic" issue of abortion funding (see my post Tablet on Newman and Abortion). The article, hosted at the website of the Archdiocese of Denver, is headed "Health care and the common good". Speaking of the Tablet editorial, Archbishop Chaput says:
The editorial has value for several reasons. First, it proves once again that people don't need to actually live in the United States to have unhelpful and badly informed opinions about our domestic issues. Second, some of the same pious voices that once criticized U.S. Catholics for supporting a previous president now sound very much like acolytes of a new president. Third, abortion is not, and has never been, a "specifically Catholic issue," and the editors know it. And fourth, the growing misuse of Catholic "common ground" and "common good" language in the current health-care debate can only stem from one of two sources: ignorance or cynicism.
I picked this up just now from Damian Thompson via Twitter (see: Archbishop Chaput accuses The Tablet of deliberately distorting Catholic teaching on abortion) but it seems to be going viral quite rapidly.

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Dear Fr Finigan

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