Open Letter to my fellow Catholics in
the U.S.A.
from Robert Thompson
OpEdNews.Com
Dear Friends,
This is, according to the teachings of our
Lord, brought down to us by the Church, a proper manner in which to
address fellow members of the Body of Christ. When
asked to define my religious affiliation, I reply quite happily that I
am a committed practicing Catholic Christian, and I make no excuses
for being such.
Here in France, it is exceptional for the
Church to make any pronouncements of political matters, and the last
time that this happened was when the Spokesman of our Bishops'
Conference, jointly with the Chairman of the Protestant Federation,
the Chairman of the national Muslim representative body and the Chief
Rabbi, clearly condemned all forms of discrimination based on race,
ethnicity or religion. This was in reply to populist
statements made by the Front National (the
neo-fascist party, the nearest thing which we have to your
neo-conservatives) which were highly discriminatory. I
feel it perhaps helpful to add here that the whole idea of
"right" and "left" in politics comes from the
lay-out of our Assembl
