PRO-LIFE - What's up with the Brits?

Get a load of this question, where do you think this appeared?

The economy, inflation and public services are out. Abortion, euthanasia and questions of faith are in. What, in God’s name, is going on?

No, not in Falwell's Liberty Journal! It was in yesterday's Scotsman.

Perhaps the Lord's stirring the pot across the pond! Let's hope so. What has knoted staed British shorts? An election no less!

Like no election campaign in recent memory, the separate worlds of religion and politics are mixing freely. The latest example this morning comes in St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh where Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the leader of Scotland’s Roman Catholics, offers his Easter sermon. His homily ... is less spiritual reflection and more political rally. In it, O’Brien barely draws breath before he tackles Caesar head on. Within the first few minutes, he is addressing the issue of abortion, and alluding to Conservative leader Michael Howard’s approval for a reduction in the time limit from 24 weeks to 20. Then it is swiftly on to cloning, and last week’s report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee which calls for more experiments on embryos to be permitted. Then, on to the election. "I urge you all to question your prospective candidates on these issues and demand that the defence of life is placed at the top of the political agenda," O’Brien declares. He is only doing what his English counterpart Cormac Murphy O’Connor started two weeks ago when he commended Howard on abortion.

We can only hope that the Lord Himself is about to unleash His Spirit in the anglo-saxon Western world ... we've become so "at ease in Zion" it sickens the heart and soul.

UPDATE: The renewal continues - in support of mixing religion & politics here and in understanding the meaning of the Cross here.