The main problem is not so much who these people are. The Leadership Conference, in particular, is a notorious joke among committed and informed Catholics - a bunch of self-regarding, elderly, power-dressed nuns, looking like nothing so much as the ladies of a country club with a sprinkling of corporate CEOs. What is grave and deliberate is the President's attempt (joyfully taken up by the usual suspects - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/03/20/behar-carlson-suggest-catholic-bishops-are-without-conscience-behar-s) to use this kind of smoke and mirrors to deceive the Catholic electorate - much of which is still Democrat, not just because of hereditary commitment, but because they genuinely support the public option and an interventist policy - into believing that there is a "real", morally authoritative Catholic Church that is not really represented by the Bishops. This amount to fostering schism for political rreasons, and breaks an age-old tradition of political non-interference in Church affairs.
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Date: 2010-03-20 02:24 pm (UTC)