ekzept

Does anyone else find it deeply disturbing that, according to a story on NPR News today, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops managed to get Pelosi to (effectively) agree to an anti-abortion plank in the recent health care bill passed by the House of Representatives? Or that this organiozation, the Catholic Church, entrenched in privilege, power, and shielded from taxes, wealthy in property, can nonetheless use the power of pulpit to advance its own narrowly-defined non-universal causes?
(posted by cellphone at laundromat)