DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Notes from a Cultural Madhouse

A fatally flawed and fatuous judgment

Some thoughts on a Catholic's endorsement of Barack Obama

By Christopher Zehnder

Mr. Douglas Kmiec's recent endorsement in Slate magazine of Sen. Barack Obama for president of the United States has, not surprisingly, generated a good deal of anger. (See California Catholic Daily's, "A wide cast of the net," March 26.) What is a noted constitutional scholar, a conservative who served in the Reagan administration, and (what's more) a Catholic doing by publicly endorsing a candidate who has made no bones about his support for abortion on demand and homosexual rights?
Read this article here: California Catholic Daily