I just discovered the National Catholic Reporter thanks to some abusive comments about it from a very right wing catholic video I saw at youtube. It's my first glimpse into the "Catholic left" in USA. I wonder why the Catholic right there have a much more prevalent internet presence? Is it because the church itself there is very rightwing? 

Would, for instance, a British bishop excommunicate someone if they took part in an abortion?

On one of the messages, this poem by John Donne.

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-belov'd imprisonment,
There He hath made Himself to His intent
Weak enough, now into the world to come;
But O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient,
Stars and wise men will travel to prevent
The effect of Herod's jealous general doom.
Seest thou, my soul, with thy faith's eyes, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?
Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pitied by thee?
Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe. 

Seest thou, my soul, with thy faith's eyes, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?