Q: Because of your regular national TV appearances, even critics have called you media-saavy, and a 2000 editorial in America once lauded your bi-partisan willingness to break ranks with Republicans and others who agree with you on most issues. What’s the secret to your success in the secular media?
A. The media like me because I am quick, pithy, and unafraid of criticism. They like my passion, and ability to deliver with clarity. That is what I have been told by friend and foe alike in the media.
Politically, I started as a Democrat, got fed up with them, joined the Republicans, got fed up with them, and have been happily independent for more than two decades. I have a problem with Catholic Democrats who have lost their moorings on the life issues. I have a problem with Catholic Republicans who are more Republican than Catholic, and Washington is loaded with these people. Many of them no longer trust me because I have attacked Republican politicians and have a reputation of not being a player. The reputation is accurate. Thank God we are headquartered in New York, and not in Washington where the operatives want to own you.
The Republican party holds NO positions that are contrary to the teaching of THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. They hold many positions contrary to the LEFT-WING positions of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The USCCB takes approximately 100 positions on public policy issues. out of those 100, FOUR are positions that all Catholics are obliged to agree with: opposition to the legality of abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, and same-sex “marriage.”
The bishops IGNORE many elements of Catholic teaching: the principle of subsidiarity, the right of people not to be murdered by illegal aliens, the right not to be killed or paralyzed by exotic diseases carried by illegal aliens, etc.
The bishops OPPOSE many elements of Catholic teaching: the right of self-defense (ergo, the right to keep and bear arms), the right not to be taxed exorbitantly, the right not to have one’s tax money spent on Marxist subversion, etc.