The campaign by some of the liberal democrat bishops continues. Their strategy is clearly to misrepresent the church's teaching on the death penalty in order to help fight gains by the GOP among Catholics.
Today is McCarrick's 75th birthday. I hope you've sent him an appropriate greeting.
Take heart, Diago. First, people of good will do not recoil at the mention of the death penalty (the way they do when abortion is brought up). And second, the faithful have learned to go past the bishops and take the teachings of the Church directly to the people.
Information is too widely available. And the average Joe in the pew is as likely to read a publication put out by Catholic Answers as they are something by the USCCB. The liberals' hold on the Church is loosening.
Their agenda is a secular humanist agenda, one that won't offend the rich and powerful liberals who they hob knob with and who they get loans from.
This is from the document posted on www.usccb.org
However, noting “the Supreme Court’s ability to affect both principles and policies,” Bishop Skylstad asked Mr. Bush to consider “qualified jurists who, pre-eminently, support the protection of human life from conception to natural death, especially of those who are unborn, disabled, or terminally ill.”