In November he urged Roman Catholic voters to support candidates who "share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn," and he traveled to Albany in March to conduct some lobbying.
On Sunday, in a letter to the archdiocese's 413 parishes, he urged parishioners to cast votes for candidates in local, state and national races who "share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn".
B5 Voting Advice From Pulpit Archbishop Edward M. Egan urged the New York Archdiocese's 2.4 million Roman Catholic parishioners to vote for candidates who "share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn".
In accord with the directive, Archbishop Edward M. Egan, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, told parishioners in a letter read at masses last week to support candidates who "share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn".
Interjecting the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese directly into next week's elections, Archbishop Edward M. Egan yesterday bluntly urged its 2.4 million parishioners to cast votes for candidates in local, state and national races who "share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn".
"All of us will have an opportunity to choose leaders for our nation, our state and our local communities who share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn, those advanced in age, the sick and the needy," the letter said.
I am also sorry that the United Kingdom and Poland have exercised their right to opt out of this commitment to fundamental rights, although recent statements by the new Polish government seem to indicate a different attitude and one that is much more in keeping with the common spirit.
If Abe is allowed to succeed, his radical reinterpretation will serve as a precedent for the Liberal Democratic Party's announced plans to break free of Japan's constitutional commitments to fundamental political and civil rights.
If we want a way to distinguish between ontological commitments to fundamental kinds and ontological commitments to derived kinds, we need to look elsewhere.
That's not surprising under the hyper-nationalist and messaging-obsessed crown prince who now dominates the country ― but it's a big new dilemma for the governments that have spent years trying to balance the strategic relationship with their commitments to uphold fundamental rights internationally.
