Cardinal clarification: Who Speaks for Catholics?

Responding to ads by “Catholics for Choice,” New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan sought to set the record straight: “The use of the name ‘Catholic’ as a platform to promote the taking of innocent human life is offensive not only to Catholics, but to all who expect honesty and forthrightness in public discourse.” In National Right to Life News Today, he accused the group of deceptively seeking taxpayer funding of abortion “in the name of the Catholic faith,” though the group “does not speak for the faithful.” Rather, it’s funded by “powerful private foundations to promote abortion as a method of population control.” Pitting the needs of pregnant women against those of their unborn children “is a false choice.”

NY Post 9/16/16 Editorial