Full Text of Vatican Cardinal's Speech Calling Obama Election "Apocalyptic"

It is impossible to speak of a Catholic culture in America any longer. A whole segment of the populace who call themselves Catholics do not feel bound by any standard of Catholic orthodoxy or sanity.

The following is the first of a three-part series on the 2008 Elections. In the next two weeks we will deal with issues of Culture and Conscience.

With respect to the abortion issue, the principle in question is the moral impossibility for a Catholic to cooperate in an act or an institution that is “intrinsically evil.”

Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was interviewed this weekend by CBNews correspondent David Brody, answering a variety of questions on matters ranging from her Christian faith to her position on a federal constitutional marriage amendment.

"Most of the registered Latinos who are voting are voting for Obama. Why is that? He doesn't represent our values: respect for life, traditional marriage or even immigration reform.

The election through the lense of the abortion issue.

Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president.

The bill, known as the Freedom of Choice Act, is one Obama told Planned Parenthood in July 2007 he would not just sign but make his first piece of legislation.

"Simply put, our concern for the dignity of the human person already born is rendered moot if we do not place first concern on the right of that person to be born."