Baltimore, Md., Nov 10, 2008 / 18:05 pm
Early on Monday afternoon, Cardinal Francis George held a press conference where he spoke about how the U.S. bishops will engage President-elect Barack Obama’s administration and provided his analysis of the bishops’ efforts to inform Catholic voters during the election.
“Mr. Obama will be the president of the United States and of course we will do our best to help him in a formidable task,” Cardinal George said to reporters.
Along with informing the future President Obama of how the bishops can help him, Cardinal George also stated that “as we have with every president, we will indicate the areas where there is disagreement and find out if there is some possibility in dialogue of coming to procedurally a resolution that does not exclude Catholics from public life…”
The president of the U.S. Bishops also responded to a question about the effectiveness of numerous U.S. bishops’ efforts to educate Catholics on the importance of considering a politician’s stance on abortion when voting.