[Cicero]

As statistics published in Crisis Magazine a few years ago clearly prove, more and more Catholics have been moving into the Republican camp every year.

In the old days, most American Catholics were ethnics: Irish, Italian, Polish, etc., and most of them were working class. They had long been discriminated against by the WASP ruling class, they formed the majority of most labor unions, and they had a strong interest in voting Democrat.

But the Democrat party changed. Catholics are now divided roughly 50-50 between the parties. But Crisis also found that the great majority of committed, church-going Catholics are now inclined to vote Republican. The Democrat party, once the party of the worker and the underdog, is now chiefly the party of abortion and perversion.

The Democrat party, in other words, mainly has the lukewarm cafeteria Catholics, and the Republican party has mostly the committed Church-going Catholics. That bodes well for the future, because lukewarm Catholics will gradually fall away from the Church, or else change and repent. Lukewarm pro-abort Catholics are less likely to have children. The future is therefore with the pro-life contingent.

[RobbyS]

Add to the the "tome" of Republican politicians. Remember the flap over the Catholic candidate for chaplaid of the House and how clumsely that was handled by the Republican leadership. The only Republican candidate who has know how to talk to Catholics was Reagan, because his father was an Irish-Catholic.

[Cronos]

But Crisis also found that the great majority of committed, church-going Catholics are now inclined to vote Republican. The Democrat party, once the party of the worker and the underdog, is now chiefly the party of abortion and perversion.

And most of us Catholics find the GoP's policies more in tune with Christian teachings so we're going to vote Republican W 2K4!