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Unfortunately, there are a number of concerning Catholic Church stories again today. Some people think we delight in finding these. Actually we don't, and are as dismayed as most people when we are informed about such developments that undermine the struggle to defend life and family. Because of that we must report on them – for the benefit of all.
However, the USCCB agency's reaction to negative revelations about groups that it is funding is a pleasant and stark contrast to the reaction by Canada's Development and Peace to similar revelations. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is not denying the evidence and has indicated it is taking “decisive” action in response. We hope it will.
It looks like Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is taking a page out of the political strategy of Canada's Conservative government – welcome pro-aborts and other social liberals into the party. The inevitable net result, as proven in Canada, will be that any and all efforts to limit abortion and any other “controversial” social ills of a moral nature will be buried, crushed, forbidden. Is that really what Americans want?
The extreme avoidance strategy also does not seem to have at all politically helped the Conservatives in Canada. The country is in a weird political stalemate of no party being able to govern as the country needs because they are all trying to crowd the centre. The Conservatives might yet get their majority – but not because of their sad avoidance of the issues that matter most.
The Republicans cannot possibly benefit from becoming more like the Democrats. Or put another way, life and family cannot possibly be protected by politicians of any political affiliation who don't stand for the most important principles of all. That lesson has been proved over and over again.
Steve Jalsevac
LifeSiteNews.com