What Does the Church Have to Say About Tiger Woods?

While the revelations about Tiger Woods affairs keep escalating and are now up to nine with the latest revelation of his affair with a porn star or two, there has been no official pronouncement from the Catholic Conference of Bishops over Woods' behavior though presumably they don't approve.

Maybe they think Woods' behavior is a private matter and not something for them to comment about or interfere with. Though they had no problems trying to intervene in the private matter of whether a woman wants to terminate a pregnancy in her first trimester. That, according to the Catholic Conference of Bishops, is their business, even if the woman and her family are not Catholic.

The amendment that they practically authored was defeated 54-45 and with it went their attempts at scuttling the health care bill if it wasn't, in their words, "acceptable".

If the church is involved in the health care debate, using it as a platform to impose its position on abortion as a matter of morality, then its curious they have nothing to say about Woods, probably the most famous athlete in the world who has been exposed for serial infidelity.

It's curious they have had nothing to say about ordering Catholics not to buy the products Woods' endorses as a matter of morality since Woods' serial adultery also violates Catholic doctrine.

Like their interference in legislation that would affect non-Catholics as well, it shouldn't matter that Woods is not a Catholic. Like the abortion issue its a matter of public morality for the church isn't it? And they think they know best.

But then again, the church has its own morality problems in filing for bankruptcy across the country to keep from paying billions in jury awards to victims of child sexual molestation at the hands of priests, in most cases with the full knowledge of local church hierarchy which the church tried to cover up for decades. Which is why juries have held the church liable.

Compared to that, Tiger's escapades are hardly worth mentioning which could be why the church isn't. But its still curious that while Tiger's infidelities dominate the news, the church has chosen to say nothing about it while spending their time in Washington trying to use healthcare reform to impose their will on abortion.