Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Last week, Catholic left-wingers felt emboldened. This week they are in
despair. At the meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, the bishops
once again committed themselves to the civil rights of the unborn, the defense
of marriage, and the cause of religious liberty. Thus those Catholics who
reject the Church’s teachings on abortion and marriage, and who support the
anti-Catholic mandate being imposed by Health and Human Services, lost big
time. Moreover, a vaguely worded document on the poor, which was not
distributed to the bishops until they arrived at the meeting, was shot down.
It is important for the practicing-Catholic community—the only subset that
really counts—to understand that there are any number of front groups out there
who deceitfully use the Catholic label to advance their agenda. Three such
entities that are condemning the bishops are Catholics for Choice, Catholics
United, and Faithful America.
Catholics for Choice is the oldest of the anti-Catholic front groups—it is a
creature of the Ford Foundation and has no members—and it told the bishops that
they need to “realize the error of their ways.” There are two groups lecturing
the bishops to “refocus their attention on caring for the poor and vulnerable”
(by which they mean pushing for more welfare): Catholics United and Faithful
America; the former was founded with seed money from atheist billionaire George
Soros, and the latter is an online hybrid of another Soros-funded front group,
Faith in Public Life.
Remember all those Catholic left-wingers who for years were singing the refrain
about the need to achieve common ground? Some of us never believed them, and
now at least one of them has admitted that this was a ploy all along. “It is
said after every election that the victors should put politics aside and work
for the good of the country,” wrote E.J. Dionne this week. Then he unloaded:
“If President Obama believed this pious nonsense, he would put his second term
in jeopardy.” Nice to know he does not want the president to “work for the good
of the country.”