Kathryn Jean Lopez has an article on Townhall.com about the recent resignation of the MSM’s favorite “Catholic” darling, Frances Kissling as head of Catholics For Free Choice. For those of you who don’t know, though the name pretty well speaks for itself, CFFC is a group claiming to be Catholic and openly rejecting Catholic Church teaching on the sanctity of human life. CFFC has been denounced by the USCCB more than once. In 2000 they issued this statement:

“A group calling itself Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) has been publicly supporting abortion while claiming it speaks as an authentic Catholic voice. That claim is false. In fact, the group’s activity is directed to rejection and distortion of Catholic teaching about the respect and protection due to defenseless unborn human life … (CFFC) is an arm of the abortion lobby in the United States and throughout the world.”

Lopez remarks that Kissling’s retirement opens the door for media outlets such as the New York Times to “report on some other Catholics – maybe even Catholics who actually believe what the Church teaches to take to the media.” And calls on all Catholics – “those who truly have the courage to stand athwart a secular culture of death yelling stop” – to “find their best and brightest clear-talking believers, and get them into the Blackberry address books of reporters and bookers and bloggers. The “Catholic” voices ought to be Catholic. That’s how you get out the Good News.”

That is assuming the media would even give them the time of day.

Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life:
CCC
Evangelium Vitae