Albacete Nails It by MSW. My comments:
Emphasizing a thread that binds is coming dangerously close to supporting the idea of Christendom, where being a Christian is reduced to being a member of a secret lodge that acts in the interest of the Church without claiming to.
Except for the fact that it might alienate Catholic voters, I am surprised that none of the Catholic's in Democratic governance and politics doesn't read the bishops the riot act about subverting American democracy or laying out some of the flaws in the Church's teaching on such matters as gay marriage, stem cell research/birth control, what the government can and can't do constitutionally about abortion and the attempts by some bishops to subvert American process in a way that borders on sedition.
These comments also ignore the extent to which there are those in Catholic Health and Catholic Charities who ARE in the inner circle of this White House and who do bring in a knowledge of the relatedness between salvation and charity.
