Category: Politics

That Diogenes is onto something. Since donations to campaigns for Federal office are a matter of public record, he’s found some Catholic clergy and college presidents whose donations funded pro-abortion politicians.
Is it any surprise that the same is true of the Rev. Fr. Robert Drinan, S.J., professor at Georgetown? His donations to Peace PAC and Council for a Livable World funded an array of candidates for the Senate and House.
All the Senate incumbents on the CLW list and most of the House incumbents on the PPAC list had a 0% NRLC rating.
I guess these organizations are indifferent about peace in the womb.
Well, readers, now that you have the links at hand, try your own research. Post any interesting results in the comments.

I will bet $5 that Senator Kerry will proclaim his support for abortion in his acceptance speech.
I will bet another $5 that none of the pro-abortion Catholic Republicans will mention abortion in their speeches.
Anybody want to put their money where their mouth is? I’m serious about this –I’ll take the first one to contact me on either wager. Nathan, I’m glancing over at you….

On the Weekly Standard’s site, Jonathan V. Last reports from Boston’s Paulist Center, which proudly gave Senator John Kerry (D-Moloch) the Eucharist after promising to work for the holy good of abortion on demand. I don’t have much to add to Mr. Last’s observations — read his article, shake your head, and pray for God to have mercy on the clergy, staff, and supporters of the Center.
Their mission statement did catch my eye, though. Last says:

The ideology which brings people to the Paulist Center is best explained by the Center’s Mission Statement which declares, “Attentive to the Holy Spirit, we are a Catholic community that welcomes all, liberates the voice of each and goes forth to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” (Before Mass, this Mission Statement is projected, in large type, onto the wall above the alter, on either side of the statue of Christ.) In their Vision Statement, the Center goes on to explain that they aspire to serve “those persons searching for a spiritual home and those who have been alienated from the Catholic Church.”
The subtext here–with talk of liberating voices and welcoming those alienated from those other mean Catholic churches–is that the Paulist Center is Catholic, but not really: more Episcopal lite; or orthodox Unitarian.

This appears to violate Eric’s Fifth General Observation (“an organization formulates a mission statement because it doesn’t know what the hell it’s doing.”) The Center knows precisely what it is doing: conducting an openly subversive campaign against the teaching of the Catholic Church, her faithful priests and bishops, and (by implication) the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I ask again: how many times will the bishops allow the Body of Christ to be betrayed and flogged? If not for the sake of your offices, won’t they intervene to defend the honor of God?
Jesus told us to pray for our enemies. He didn’t say that Christians didn’t have any enemies, or that the Church’s enemies would never arise from within her.

Bill Bennet gives the Democrats some excellent advice. One can’t help but think they won’t take any of it. Here are some excerpts.

As you continue your efforts to defeat President Bush, I hope you will not abandon your legacy nor President Clinton’s remorse. Today we are learning about the CIA’s failures to get the facts right about Iraq’s WMD program. But those failures do not belong to President Bush alone — and before you allow the various reports coming out to become your next platform of attack, take a moment and ask yourselves why former Kerry advisor Sandy Berger said the following in 1998: “He [Hussein] will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.” Ask yourselves why Kerry adviser Madeleine Albright said the following at the same forum: “Iraq is a long way from Ohio, but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.” Ask yourselves why President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 that made it our foreign policy to change the regime in Iraq.
The liberation of Iraq was a positive good, with or without WMDs — a haven for terrorists is now a genesis of democracy; the mass graves where tens of thousands were buried are being emptied rather than filled; one of the worst human-rights violators in the world is now out of power — no longer able to torture, no longer able to invade neighbors, no longer able to threaten the world’s oil supply, no longer able to subsidize homicide bombers in Israel.