Dolan to Dems: Why have you forsaken us Catholics?

Looks like Cardinal Dolan’s patience for balance has expired. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday, the New York prelate accused Democrats of abandoning Catholics. Dolan went beyond accusations of abandonment; he argued that Democratic leadership had slammed the door in Catholic faces with their embrace of abortion and hostility to choice in education and high taxation on working-class families.

That’s not hyperbole, either. As Dolan notes, DNC chair Tom Perez declared last year that pro-life candidates no longer have a place in the Democratic Party. Their VP nominee in 2016, Tim Kaine, ran as a Catholic who supported his running mate’s determination to get rid of the prohibition on the use of federal funds for abortions. Democrats have been on the march to drive all expressions of religious faith from the public square, mocking it as “bigotry” while demanding silence of Catholics and other people of faith.

Still, Dolan might find himself uncomfortable with the alternative. Republicans have supported people of faith in these issues, but the GOP’s rhetoric has turned coarse on immigration, and they generally oppose the USCCB’s concepts of social safety nets.

At this point, though, it seems that the Democratic Party has fully sold out to the extremists, and that means that Catholic Democrats will have to make a choice, and Democrats may not like the consequences when that happens. That’s precisely what Cardinal Dolan is warning them about, too.

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