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I believe it's the Catholics who have embraced the left.

Ethnic Catholics, who are mostly unionized workers in the eastern corridor vote as most union people do, for rats. Bishops and Clergy in those areas influence many others in the nation. SO at one time your supposition was correct.

There is a large and growing segment of the Church who are Republican and not ashamed of it. Most serious Catholic in the South and in the Midwest have not followed this model. Most workers in those area are also not union, and miss the constant and rank-andfile dues payer funded indoctrination of the AFL-CIO, an arm of the Democratic Party. Even down south, union shops are outposts of liberalism.

As for Catholics, in the last election, at the National Convention of the Knights of Columbus (a Catholic Fraternal Organization) President Bush was invited to speak, as a defender of Life. The (c)atholic Kerry was not invited, as he is not supporting the cause with the Knights.

Do not think things are as they once were, and while things change, in the Catholic Church in America, things do not turn on a dime. Things will change as people notice that Republicanism is closer (but not congruent) with Catholic teaching.

Things will change as people notice that Republicanism is closer (but not congruent) with Catholic teaching.

Amen to that!

If anyone reads "Rerum Novarum" he would instantly realize that the socialism that Democrats espouse is antithetical to Catholic Social Teaching. OTOH, GWB's Opportunity Society Platform mostly conforms to the tenets in "Rerum Novarum".

The introduction of Right-to-Work states like Texas probably had more to with the South Rising Again and shrugging off a century of rat rule than anything else. The hell with unions. Communists from the start, communists till the end.