Cardinal Francis George, Curious George, and Secretary of HHS Kathrine Sebilius

Cardinal George (left) and Curious George...they both wear colorful hats.

But that's not what I want to talk about. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebilius is a self-proclaimed Catholic She is staunchly pro-abortion (one. of her biggest donors was abortionist doctor George Tiller, who performed over 60,000 of them). She has recently decided that it wasn't worth keeping abortion pills out of the hands of young girls. Archbishop Burke AND Archbishop Fred Naumann have warned her NOT to approach the Altar for Communion.

Cardinal George was writing about gay marriage, but what he said can be applied to Kathleen (and our Dick Durbin):

“Catholic politicians are complicit in secularizing our society when they reduce their religious beliefs to private opinions and promise that their religious faith will not influence their public life. This false dichotomy began when John Kennedy, fighting anti-Catholic prejudice in his campaign to be elected president, told Protestant ministers in Houston not to worry about his acting like a Catholic. Political figures who still claim to be Catholic but who systematically ignore Catholic moral and social teaching in public life cut themselves off from the communities that once nurtured them. How should faithful Catholics distinguish political pragmatism from betrayal?

“Are we to have a religious test for public office that excludes Catholics serious about their faith from appointment to federal judgeships? Are Catholics who will not perform abortions to be excluded from medical school? Are Catholics to be unwelcome in the editorial offices of major newspapers, in the entertainment world, or on university faculties unless they put their faith aside? In short, what began as a political device to get elected to office in a Protestant society can be used more broadly to exclude Catholics from any position of influence in public life. If Catholics are to be closeted and marginalized in a secularized society, Catholic parents should prepare their children to be farmers, carpenters and craftsmen, small business people and workers in service industries, honorable occupations that do not, however, immediately impact public opinion. Is this the future? That’s a concern.”