Two African American nuns on Archbishop Joseph Rummel's residence staff ignore a protester in front of the archbishop's residence in New Orleans on April 23, 1962. (AP)
Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.
As a faith leader in the Catholic community, I find it especially disturbing that so many of the politicians on the wrong side of the preeminent human rights issue of our time are self-professed Catholics. …