Politics

By Jesse Russell, American Spectator - However, regardless of his personal skeletons, before his death of “pancreatic cancer,” Bernardin was able to give a precious gift to the Democratic Party: the Catholic vote... While often not acknowledged as such, Bernardin was one of the most critical figures of the American left during the latter quarter of the 20th century. With the humiliating defeat of Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election, Bernardin and the radicalized members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops went to work to undermine the Reagan Revolution and buttress Kennedy-style Catholic liberals in the Democratic Party.

LifeNews Note: Bill Donohue is the president of the Catholic League - The 163 Catholics in the new Congress are split on abortion: almost all Republicans are pro-life and almost all Democrats are abortion-rights advocates. For incumbents, we checked their voting record as scored by NARAL and National Right to Life. Typically, those who received a 100% NARAL score garnered a 0% rating from National Right to Life (which would be most Democrats), and vice versa (which would be most Republicans).

By Michael Kelly, Catholic Herald - Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, who also is president of the Irish bishops’ conference, said in a message to mark the legislation that the new law “in good conscience cannot be supported”… “In a May 22 referendum, voters opted by a margin of 2-1 to lift the country’s constitutional protection of the right to life of unborn children. The new law will permit abortion on demand up to 12 weeks’ gestation….