Working on an email to my pastor right now. Lord, it's full-time work swatting down these damn frauds.
I also think that the Irish identity and history plays a big part of this. Here is Massachusetts practically everybody in politics has an Irish name, so there is the unholy trinity of being an Irish-Catholic-Democrat. You can't seem to separate them. Every Saint Patrick's day the politicians and the Catholic clergy go to the local halls and have a St. Patrick's day dinner complete with jokes, songs and stories. It seems like a big Irish love-in. It looks like the priests have been too close to the Irish Catholic political leaders for too long.
At one time, the Democrats did not have any ideology that went directly against the Catholic church but now the Dems are arrogantly challenging the authority of the Catholic Church in its own realm. Even the funeral of Ted Kennedy was used as an opportunity to politic and take digs at the Catholic teachings.
The Knights of Columbus was a strong Catholic mens organization but it now has been taken over by the Democrat liberal politicians. Politicians like to belong to every kind of organization because it gives them the opportunity to network and build a group of political supporters. Now the politicians in the Knights of Columbus are actively subverting the churches role as a moral voice in the making of laws.
Had to stop right there. Who is the editor? Who decides the content material? Get involved! Don't have time to actually work on the bulletin, consider submitting an article .. or a suggestion. The great problem with parish bulletins is that those who create them rarely receive any feedback, much less suggestions for content material. As you know, I speak from personal experience :-)