The presidential election of 1976 presented the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) with a difficult dilemma. With the two parties taking opposing stances on the issue of abortion, one might have thought that the bishops would endorse the antiabortion party and its presidential candidate. But the bishops didn’t want to do that. That was not because they didn’t care about abortion. In fact, the bishops had already suggested that the abortion issue was their foremost political priority. Three years... Read more