The high-level meetings offered a first glimpse of a vast and highly organised effort by the leadership of America’s nearly 80 million Catholics to turn the pope’s moral call for action into reality.
“It is our marching orders for advocacy,” Joseph Kurtz, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archbishop of Louisville, said. “It really brings about a new urgency for us.”
Church leaders rejected the accusations from some conservatives – including the Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush – that the pope had trespassed into the political realm.
“It is our marching orders for advocacy,” Joseph Kurtz, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archbishop of Louisville, said. “It really brings about a new urgency for us.”
Given his position, Joseph Kurtz isn't some guy preaching to pigeons in the park and he also rejected specifically what Jeb$ has said:
No doubt there are Catholics who disagree but it's encouraging to know the leadership does not support them.
My own brief editorial on it is what difference does it make to Congress if Pope Francis trespasses on anything as they have done nothing about climate change anyway except to be as destructive as possible in this context. He's showing the gumption to address what needs to be done rather than pushing the opinion of the highest bidder.
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