Washington D.C., Aug 31, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The president of grassroots organization “Catholics For Kerry 04,” said the Republicans are using Catholic organizations as “vehicles” to discredit John Kerry as a presidential candidate and to divide the Catholic laity.
Robert McFadden accuses two Catholic organizations – Catholic Answers and The Catholic League – of being “the vehicles that the RNC’s Catholic Outreach is using to extend its tentacles of division ever further into the Catholic laity.”
The Republicans’ Catholic Outreach, he says, “has targeted Catholic voters and has infiltrated parishes across the nation.”
Catholic Answers, a San Diego-based lay apostolate whose primary mission is defending Catholic teaching, has recently released a "Voter's Guide." The guide instructs Catholics not to vote for any candidate who supports abortion, euthanasia, fetal stem-cell research, human cloning, and same-sex marriage.