[the invisib1e hand]

Cardinal Dolan seems to be a fine man, but I don’t think he realizes that many catholics who are Democrats-—are democrats first and catholics second , and only if Catholicism doesn’t get in their way.

Have you listened to Cardinal Dolan? "The Church has been advocating universal healthcare for nearly a hundred years". "My father was a union man!"

[Mrs. Don-o]

As for universal healthcare, that was part of the 1919 NCWC policy, but "State Controlled" Health Care was never a doctrine of the Church. "Universal" could mean "multipayer, multi-layer, private, public, Church, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, philanthropic, etc." It doesn't have to mean "government hegemony."

I'd like to have a talk with Dolan about that.

As for unions: yeesh, if you grew up in a place like St. Louis like Dolan did in the 1950's, if you were blue-collar --- all our dads were union men. That's not a brag, though it may be a tag. It's just a fact.