Obama is Alienating Catholic voters

So says St. Louis writer Colleen Carroll Campbell in her latest article. I think she's wrong: most Catholics are not alienated by what he's doing. They think that he's implementing Gospel Values, with an occasional feature the Bishops object to, but then most Catholics don't want the Bishops imposing Catholicism on Catholics, much less anyone else.  The next election cycle will tell.

I admire Ms. Carroll Campbell, but she sometimes seems to be wearing blinders. In this case, she doesn't examine the Catholics themselves, and why so many prefer twin governmental evils: totalitarian Progressivism on the one hand, and laissez faire on the other. The Church condemns both, and posits a hierarchy of responsibilities that immediately suggests a social structure with distributed powers.  This eminently sensible idea, not to be confused with Federalism, has gone by the name Subsidiarity, and does not depend on divine revelation at all, only on a careful consideration of human nature. Of course, moderns say there is no fixed human nature to consider and there can be no philosophy of social organization, only the flavor of the age. They're wrong – there is a such thing as human nature and if anyone should know that it is Catholics (and indeed all Christians).

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