British Cardinal Sees Catholic Influence in National Elections

From Catholic World News:

Rome, May. 03 (CWNews.com) - British Catholic leaders are urging the faithful to give high priority to life, the family, education, prison reform, and immigration in the coming May 5 national elections.

In an interview with the Italian daily Avvenire , Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said that laws regarding abortion and bioethics, as well as the ban on an English sovereign marrying a Catholic, should also figure in voters' assessment of candidates.

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Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor observed that "the English think that religion is something that relates to the private domain, of which one doesn't speak in public-- unlike in the United States." He explained, "for Bush it is natural to mention God in his talks; Blair can't do that."

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My Comments:
If the secularist left (and, indeed, many liberal Catholics) had their way, religion in America would be consigned, as it is in Europe, to the private sphere, with no mention of or role for religion whatsoever in the public square.