emits boilerplate politico speech: Being Catholic is something to be proud of.
Actually, being Catholic is something to be grateful for. It’s a gift, after all, not an achievement or an ethnicity.
Being a supporter of torture, on the other hand, is something to be ashamed of and repentant about. If Mr. Santorum is going to play the Catholic card for votes, I think it only fair to explain that I vote for Catholics who actually uphold the Church’s teaching, not those who persistently defy it. I see no great difference between him and La Pelosi, except for the intrinsic grave evils they scandalously promote in defiance of the Church.