Obama's Catholic Voters - Part 1 of 2 or 3

Obama’s Catholic Voters – Part 1 of 2 or 3
The website – cinops be gone – Tuesday, November 25, 2008
There are at least ten states where Catholics voted overwhelming for Obama, including California. This article is taken from Catholic Daily, www.calcatholic.com – published: November 10, 2008. In Part 2, we will list the other five states.

According to the bishops’ statistics, the ‘most Catholic’ state in the union is Rhode Island, where Catholics make up 59.5% of the population. Obama received 63% of the vote in Rhode Island.

Second on the list was Massachusetts, where Catholics comprise 42% of the state’s population. Massachusetts residents gave Obama 62% of their votes.

New York … with Catholics comprising 37.1% of the population, voted 62% for Obama.

The fifth ‘most Catholic state’ in the U.S., according to the bishops’ statistics, is Connecticut, with a Catholic population of 36.6%. Obama received 60.2 of the vote in Connecticut.

In Illinois, Catholics make up 30.1% of the state’s population. Residents gave Obama 62% of the votes.

Rounding out the ‘10 most Catholic states’ is California, where the bishops’ statistics say 28.6% of the state’s residents are Catholic. California gave Obama 61% of their votes.
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The challenge is to change a negative into a positive; when the next elections come around in 2010 and 2012. Meeting members of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Nov. 15th, pope Benedict XVI emphasized the need to educate lay Catholics to play their proper role in building a world of justice, charity and protection of human rights.

It seems Rev. Richard P. McBrien is concerned about the vocal minority of bishops who have spoken out in politically partisan fashion and their national impact beyond the confines of Denver, Scranton, or whatever else. I have some good news for the Reverend. The minority of bishops will become the majority of bishops in a very short time. Humbly, Cinops be gone will do its share in the education of the laity and religious with postings not regularly sent out.

Now let us go to two of the more intelligent and better informed Catholic states like Pennsylvania and Missouri. In Pennsylvania, Obama won 55% of the vote and McCain 44 percent, but Catholics favored McCain by 52 percent to 48 percent. In Missouri, McCain won by about 50.1% to Obama 49.9%. Missouri Catholics voted for McCain by a difference of 55 to 45 percent. After all, one candidate is for life and traditional America and the other, for the culture of death.

It is obvious that the bishops’ leadership in these two states and other Catholic voting states are superior in shepherding with their staff and judgment….
Happy Thanksgiving!
George H. Kubeck