Comments on: Douthat on Dolan and More

By: Graham Combs

Graham Combs — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:13:16 +0000

Is being a Catholic just a specific way of thinking politically? Or is thinking like a Catholic similar to the way law school students are encouraged to think like lawyers? Douthat’ s context is far too political which is a problem with American Christianity in general. I wonder if it isn’t that rather than a demanding orthodoxy that is driving Americans out of the Church? Otherwise what is religious liberty and the free exercise clause for? The Catholic Democrat has more to do with place and time than principle. I would ask any Catholic, any priest, any religious, any bishop if they can name a single pro-life union. I can’t. And remember that most union jobs are government jobs. I want to end abortion. I want a radical restoration of family. I want the freedom to live Christ’s teachings. Everything in society today from work to education to civics to the bishops’ laundry list of economic and environmental and utopian priorities works against this. What exactly are Republicans going to do about that? I do know what Democrats are going to do or rather continue to do to marginalize the Faith.

By: Graham Combs

Graham Combs — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:59:56 +0000

What is it exactly that the Church wants any political party to do? Wasn’t the immigrant mistake to make too much of politics? More than anything else wasn’t it the cycnicism and corruption and politicization of everything that drove Americans into the suburbs? But then the suburbs are now embracing the personal is political. And now the Church is unwelcome everywhere. I vote Republican and if what some Catholics think of I me I am also a “conservative.”

By: John Hinshaw

John Hinshaw — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:10:30 +0000

That this shift, (which the laity recognized as essential long before our Church institutions) is only occuring now is a sad commentary on the usefulness of Catholic polity. The attacks still being made on this shift by the USCCB, LCWR Network, etc. have the sound of a priveleged class.
BTW: Is it true that the Nuns on the Bus are giving Sandra Fluke a ride to the DNC?

By: Dave Wickert

Dave Wickert — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:30:35 +0000

No Change. Traditionalist, orthodox Catholics have been Republicans since Eisenhower/Nixon, 1952. Although I admit they might have voted for JFK in 1960.

If anything, fewer Catholics are voting Republican now than in the Nixon years, ’68 and ’72.