[AlaskaErik]

The moment the left embraces the Catholic Church is the moment I leave it.

I believe it's the Catholics who have embraced the left. If every Catholic had voted for George Bush he would have won in two landslides. If every Catholic stopped voting for Rats, the DemocRATic party would cease to exist.

[Dominick]

I believe it's the Catholics who have embraced the left.

Ethnic Catholics, who are mostly unionized workers in the eastern corridor vote as most union people do, for rats. Bishops and Clergy in those areas influence many others in the nation. SO at one time your supposition was correct.

There is a large and growing segment of the Church who are Republican and not ashamed of it. Most serious Catholic in the South and in the Midwest have not followed this model. Most workers in those area are also not union, and miss the constant and rank-andfile dues payer funded indoctrination of the AFL-CIO, an arm of the Democratic Party. Even down south, union shops are outposts of liberalism.

As for Catholics, in the last election, at the National Convention of the Knights of Columbus (a Catholic Fraternal Organization) President Bush was invited to speak, as a defender of Life. The (c)atholic Kerry was not invited, as he is not supporting the cause with the Knights.

Do not think things are as they once were, and while things change, in the Catholic Church in America, things do not turn on a dime. Things will change as people notice that Republicanism is closer (but not congruent) with Catholic teaching.

[kidd]

More Catholics voted for Bush than Kerry. Catholics are slowly rejecting the left.

"If every Catholic stopped voting for Rats, the DemocRATic party would cease to exist".

True. But also true:

If every black stopped voting for Rats, the DemocRATic party would cease to exist.

If every Jew stopped voting for Rats, the DemocRATic party would cease to exist.

If every atheist stopped voting for Rats, the DemocRATic party would cease to exist.

If every Protestant stopped voting for Rats, the DemocRATic party would cease to exist.