During Lent!! We are participating in prayer and fasting for 4o days to end abortion, and suddenly, the common good trumps telling the truth.
"Catholics United" is the present reincarnation of "Catholics for Obama" --- literally, interlocking or reduplicating boards of directors, staff, and members --- and they've learned that using Catholic-sounding terms will effectively camouflage socialist aims, especially when the intended audience knows next to nothing about Catholicism.
Excuse me while I got pound my head against a wall.
This is an interesting window on the RC left, which has insidiously infiltrated the church, including apparently the religious orders. It is very interesting, for religious orders historically have been a model for collectivist political movements. They are themselves rather communistic.
In the 20th Century, the RC Church tended to support fascism over communism, but both are forms of collectivism. The “Common Good” movement promoted in the “Catholics United” website is merely warmed-over fascism-socialism-communism. It has no strong American roots.
As a non-Catholic, I have always admired the courage of many Catholics in standing up for life. But the RC church is infected (just like much of mainstream Protestantism), and it is very weak. It seems to have turned its back on the strong strain of individualism which has roots in Christian doctrine. In the “Common Good” movement, the left-faction tries to realize Christianity in communitarian social-welfarism at the national level. I say that’s fascism, and I say to Hell with it! I don’t care if 50,000 nuns like it: it’s still poison.