[Mad Dawg]

Leaving aside the remark about the distant past, I would say don’t under estimate the teaching on subsidiarity. Bear in mind that the liberal Catholics get the press, and, yes, there are too many of them.

And just as too many Jews were welcomed by liberals and shunned by conservatives in the early part of the last century, so also the Democrats gave a place to immigrant Catholics which conservatives denied them. This unfortunate fact of the recent past is still working its way out.

My large university parish is a hot-bed of conservatism. There are more politically conservative Catholics than you might imagine, and we have subsidiarity as a strongly articulated principle. The press won’t get it, because they don’t get much. But it’s there and it’s important.

[Anti-Utopian]

The only things welcomed in the leftist tent are creatures who lust for two things: Other people's money, and other people's freedom. That the Catholics readily entered that tent and have found a comfortable seat for over a century should give anyone pause.

And for the record, one man's "hotbed" is another man's "ice tray."