So who listens? They come out with all kinds of dopey things but it ain’t dogma and it ain’t infallible.
Massachusetts: Clergy coming out in favor of strict new gun control bill
5/31/14 | by Chris Eger
According to a 2010 survey by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most heavily Catholic state in the Union, with some 44 percent of its residents belonging to parishes.
The move by the Catholic leaders in New England can be seen as a continuation of involvement by clergy in the gun-control debate.
Earlier this month, when Georgia’s controversial new gun law allowing concealed carry in churches passed into law, both Episcopal and Catholic bishops in that state issued decrees banning the practice. Jewish rabbis in Atlanta soon echoed this stance.
Most members of the Catholic church are and always have been democrat voters, there is only a handful of exceptions, and most of those were for the second term, not the first.
We are importing millions of Catholics, the political message they receive from their leadership, matters.