Isn’t the Catholic Church pro-life? Is it an oxymoron that a Catholic organization and its followers would follow doctrine and also be pro-life?

The National Catholic Advisory Council now has the seal of approval from NARAL Pro-Choice America?

Barack Hussein Obama’s Catholic advisory council was announced a few months ago and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) was listed as a national co-chair. His appearance at the top of the council sent a clear message: This campaign is determined to recover some of the lost Democratic sheep who have gravitated to the GOP over abortion.

Of the 21 senators, congressmen and governors listed on the council’s National Leadership Committee, 17 have a 90%-100% NARAL approval rating. Even Mr. Casey now enjoys a 65% NARAL approval rating. Mr. Obama enjoys a 100% NARAL rating.

In a speech before Planned Parenthood, Obama declared that the right to an abortion is at stake in this election, and vowed that he would not yield on appointing judges that would uphold Roe v. Wade.

Mr. Obama is for using tax dollars to fund abortions, and against restrictions on partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, he voted against legislation protecting a child who was born alive despite an abortion. In sum, if you want to know what Mr. Obama’s policies mean, it’s this: taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, writes William McGurn at The Wall Street Journal’s “Main Street“.

When you look past the soothing language about “change” and the willingness to “listen,” the actual policies and voting record are to the left of Ted Kennedy’s and Bernie Sanders’.

Mr. Sanders is a die-hard Socialist by his own admission and we know Kennedy is the leader of the Left-Wing Nut House. Mr. McGurn continues:

As Mr. Obama himself notes, moreover, Republicans generally do not appoint the kind of judges the pro-choice side demands: That is, judges who can be counted on to impose their own views upon the law on issues that ought properly be left to the American people.

This is critical because activist judges won’t stop at abortion, they will legislate from the bench as the Ninth-Circuit has over its complete history and recently SCOTUS has offered habeus-corpus to enemy combatants known as terrorists.

In the language of the church, abortion is an “intrinsic evil,” always and everywhere wrong.

That is what Catholics for Obama have to get around. Given this awkward fact, the political reality is that a National Catholic Advisory Council may do less to advance Mr. Obama than to alert the public about how extreme his votes and policies are – not to mention the similar votes and policies of the Catholic politicians supporting him. Already Kathleen Sebelius – governor of Kansas and one of the Catholic co-chairs – has been asked by her bishop to refrain from Communion because of what he says is her support for abortion. As for Sen. Casey, well, let’s just say it’s hard to imagine his sainted father – who bucked his party’s president and refused to support his old friend Sen. Harris Wofford’s 1994 re-election bid over the life issue – lending his imprimatur to such a NARAL-friendly enterprise.

Mr. McGurn ends his commentary by showing how Catholic politicians who support abortion are more than your typical hypocrite:

Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), for example, is another Catholic council member who also enjoys a 100% NARAL approval rating. During recent Senate hearings, he accused oil company executives of having “all the compassion of Burmese generals.”

When Mr. Durbin is willing to use similar language to describe the taking of innocent, unborn life, we’ll know we have change we can believe in.

Catholic Democrats should wake up to the fact that abortion is not part of their church doctrine and should think about not taking communion and not voting for Barack Hussein Obama, current leader of the Democrat National Socialist Party. Indeed!