LifeNews.com covers a conference of Catholic bishops, in which their leader, Cardinal Frances George compares the fight against abortion to the fight against racism.
Cardinal George said Americans should “rejoice” that the nation elected its first African-American president, but he immediately issued a challenge to the nation and to incoming leader Barack Obama.
“If the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, that African Americans were other people’s property and somehow less than persons, were still settled constitutional law, Mr. Obama would not be President of the United States,” George said.
“We are perhaps at a moment when, with the grace of God, all races are safely within the American consensus,” George said. “We are not at the point, however, when Catholics, especially in public life, can be considered full partners in the American experience unless they are willing to put aside some fundamental Catholic teachings on a just moral and political order.”
He explained that opposition to racism is a “pillar” of Catholic teaching, but so is opposition to abortion — a comment that received a standing ovation from his colleagues.
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