They, the Kennedys, Catholic political leaders from around the nation, they go to the Vatican and take communion, when they die the Catholic church gives them grand funerals and recognition, they meet with their Pope.
They aren't in trouble, they are the image of the denomination, they represent the party of most Catholics.
The notorious homosexual, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, was president of the bishops’ conference for some years, and deliberately entangled the Church with the government—addicting Catholic Charities to government funding, among other things.
Add this to the fact that, in those years, about 90% of bishops were dyed-in-the-wool Democrats, having grown up in a household where the father was a member of a major union, and the bishops’ response to abortion was pathetic. They were far more hostile to the Reagan tax rate cuts than to abortion.
The pro-life movement in the U.S. is 99% the work of Catholic and Protestant laity. The Catholic bishops have, as a group, been a hindrance. The Catholic bishops’ greatest “success” was the snuffing out of the Rescue Movement.
The notorious homosexual, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, was president of the bishops’ conference for some years, and deliberately entangled the Church with the government—addicting Catholic Charities to government funding, among other things.
Add this to the fact that, in those years, about 90% of bishops were dyed-in-the-wool Democrats, having grown up in a household where the father was a member of a major union, and the bishops’ response to abortion was pathetic. They were far more hostile to the Reagan tax rate cuts than to abortion.
The pro-life movement in the U.S. is 99% the work of Catholic and Protestant laity. The Catholic bishops have, as a group, been a hindrance. The Catholic bishops’ greatest “success” was the snuffing out of the Rescue Movement.