USCCB Urges Nuclear Disarmament

Cardinal George is fascinated by destined to fail liberal foreign and domestic policy goals. It's not so much that the Bishops are playing a political role, it's not even that they are incompetent to play such a role, for political issues are well within the competency of a Bishop. Yet when socialist-style national Bishops Conferences speak out on various issues, it's almost entirely guaranteed to illicit a suspiciously pre-masticated and slavish adherence to the liberal social agendas of the day.

It's suspicious because many of these policies can be demonstrated to be deleterious to the health of the host nation, and it's especially poisonous to the credibility of Catholic institutions ultimately, because it is very clear that the Bishops aren't really responding from their own beliefs, (although many of them by virtue of their education hold such poisonous beliefs) but from an agenda established independent of the Catholic Church.

To put it another way, the USCCB is an organ with no authority, claiming to speak on behalf of the Catholic Church in a country, and yet it consistently works against the interests of both its host country and the Catholic Church.

Whoever is pulling the strings at the USCCB does not have the best interests of the Catholic Church at heart.

WASHINGTON—"The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) welcomes the signing of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and the Russian Federation," said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the USCCB, in an April 8 letter to President Barack Obama.

“The horribly destructive capacity of nuclear arms makes them disproportionate and indiscriminate weapons that endanger human life and dignity like no other armaments. Their use as a weapon of war is rejected in Church teaching based on just war norms,” Cardinal George wrote. The cardinal cited teaching from both the U.S. bishops and Pope Benedict XVI calling for a world without nuclear weapons.

“Based on a moral imperative to rid the world of nuclear weapons,” Cardinal George said, “the Conference of Bishops will be a steadfast supporter of strong and bipartisan action on the new START Treaty as an important and essential step toward a nuclear-weapons-free future.”

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