Not to pick on the Indiana Catholic Action Network (I-CAN) – because they aren’t the only ones generating moral confusion about social matters and the proper Catholic response – but an examination of its 2010 public policy positions is instructive. These auxiliary Church bodies unwittingly have done a lot of damage, such as helping to elect morally-perverted Catholic politicians with grave disdain for Church teaching.
A recent I-CAN email alert expressed irritation over Senate legislation to increase border enforcement rather than “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (code word alert: emphasis and capitalization are in the original, to indicate that the term “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” means something very specific), urging its contacts to set their senators straight.
I-CAN is a function of the Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), which calls itself “the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Indiana” and, like all other state Catholic Conferences, includes the full quiver of Indiana’s acting bishops. ICC’s website insists it’s “not trying to form a religious voting block...nor tell people how to vote,” despite making recommendations for specific actions, such as “Ask Your Senator to Oppose Enforcement Only Measures.” However, “it is analyzing political issues from a social and moral point of view…. [and] through the Indiana Catholic Action Network (ICAN), you and other Catholics can have a direct impact on legislative action.”
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