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WWII is receding into the distance, but those of us who are old enough to remember are still pretty horrified. My parents' next door neighbor had the number tattooed on his forearm -- he and his brother were the only members of their large extended family to survive the Holocaust. He's in his late 80s now, my dad is 85 -- that generation is passing away, but my generation heard the stories first hand. Preserve that recollection for your kids and grandkids, it's important!

If you want to run some genealogy, check the websites of the LDS and also some sites like WebGen - there are a bunch out there, many free, some subscription. You needn't leave the comfort of your computer chair to find out an awful lot -- immigration records, shipping lists, all that stuff. My family's been here for ages, mostly - the latest group of immigrants was in the 1860s - so all the European stuff I need is really, really old, but it's surprising how much is there, online. I found my gggg grandfather's baptismal record in London, in 1795!

I agree that all Christians need to stick together. I think it's kind of like family. We may disagree among ourselves, even to the point of shouting (if you're in an Italian or Irish family, that's called "normal conversation"), but if anybody attacks from outside, everybody closes ranks.

And I would include believing, practicing Jews in the family. I find that I have a lot more in common with Orthodox or Conservative Jews who actually practice their faith, than with folks who call themselves Catholic but don't follow the teachings of the Church.

And the far left's goal is "divide and conquer" -- you can't see Obama's Notre Dame appearance or his appointments of pro-abort "Catholics" to important positions as anything but an attempt to get the Catholics quarreling amongst themselves, and install if he can a Vichy rump of Catholics-in-name-only to pretend to represent "the Church". I think though that the bishops have finally caught on, that Obama has been using them in a most cynical way.

I will support a candidate 100% if they are pro life and working against socialism, creeping or otherwise. But I will not support a pro death, socialist candidate who's calling him or herself a Catholic.