RC officialdom’s tilt to the left is a matter of long-standing precedent, let the (sad) record show. Catholic periodicals responding to Depression problems
were generally sympathetic to the social-welfare legislation of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. John A. Ryan, Raymond McGowan, and William Montavon were frequently supportive, and Bishop William O’Brien went so far as to declare that “when the greatest depression in our history threatened our country and seemed about to submerge it, Almighty God raised up Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the apostle of the New
Deal.”
Only the then-dormant or even non-existent abortion issue prevents our current bishops from likewise bloviating, one fears.
Thus Thomas E. Blantz in The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), p. 516, reviewing The Response in American Catholic Periodicals to the Crises of the Great Depression, 1930-1935, by Lawrence B. DeSaulniers.
With bishops like O’Brien — a Chicago auxiliary, wouldn’t you know it, and later an archbishop and director of the Chicago-based Catholic Church (home-mission) Extension Society — who needed Steve Early?
Blithe Spirit 
The Voter’s Guide was their not-so-subtle way of saying the life issues were just one set of concerns for Catholics, that the “social justice” issues were really their pet projects.
For all the so-called concern of the Democrats for the poor, how is it that the poor have their lives and families shattered by Democrat “solutions” — i.e. taxation of the productive? How is it that the same Democrats are obscenely rich by anyone’s standards and none of the loudest bloviators has yet given up their private schemes to enrich themselves further especially with the Cap & Trade hoax to come? After all his hysteria about global warming, Al Gore is building another huge estate in California to which he and his family will travel by private jet.
These Democrats remind me too much of the Soviet Party elite who had their own stores, dachas, health care systems, limosines, etc. while the rest of the population (who weren’t in slave labor camps) lived scared, grey lives without access to good medical care or a decent diet.
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