The Church should have taken to every pulpit and told the flock in clear, unequivocal language that a vote to re-elect Obama was equivalent to a mortal sin.
Instead they put out mushy, nuanced messages, hoping to not offend Hispanics and union hacks who put in to the collection baskets.
Now their Emily Litella moment is here. I suspect they will take Obama’s fig leaf that the insurance companies are really paying and decide that they can live with that, just as they have been doing in Europe for over four decades.
That is correct in the mushy message, but a close look at the collections show that MOST of the union government Bureaucrats that show up for Easter and Christmas festivities give less than $100. on average PER YEAR.
At the Parochial school my children attend, the MAJORIY of the parents give LESS THAN $100 per year. MOST come from households making $100K per year or more as they are Police, Firemen, teachers and their spouse is also employed.
The fact is that since Vatican II the Church has done a very poor job of instructing the flock in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. MOST Catholics DO NOT GO TO CHURCH. Most have NEVER HEARD why it is immoral to practice un natural birth control methods. They DO NOT understand WHY homosexual acts are a mortal sin. ALL they hear about is that God is ALL loving. How than can their be a Hell? How then can their be a Devil? So as far as they are concerned, there isn't intrinsic evil, there isn't a Devil, there are no consequences for their actions and Hell doesn't exist, and God probably doesn't either.