The Catholic League of the United Kingdom has the motto Adeste, Fideles.
In absolute fidelity to the Roman Magisterium, it defends and promotes the pro-life interest, the pro-family interest, the pro-worker interest, the anti-war interest, the Distributist interest, the Catholic interest in public service provision, the Catholic interest in foreign policy, the Christian heritage of the United Kingdom and of other countries, and the closest possible economic, social, cultural and political ties among the historic Kingdom of England (including the Principality of Wales), the historic Kingdom of Scotland, and the historic Kingdom of Ireland.
It will publish in the run-up to each General Election a list of five policies in each of the above areas identified by the National Representative for that area, together with the details of one community project in each deanery (or, ideally, parish) identified by the Deanery (or, ideally, Parish) Representative there. Against those, candidates will be rated and those ratings made public prior to the Election.
It will meet the election expenses of parliamentary candidates in proportion to those ratings. It will encourage members to participate with due discretion in political parties, and most especially in the dominant party wherever such exists, with a view to influencing the selection of parliamentary candidates.
It will maintain and circulate private lists of members who are also members of political parties, who enjoy one hundred per cent ratings in the above terms, and who desire to be selected as parliamentary candidates. It will encourage and assist the appointment of members to the House of Lords. And it will make representations with regard to appointments to the Episcopate and other senior positions.
The National Representatives will be laypeople appointed by the Council (elected by and from among the members) with the approval of one or more apostolates. The Deanery (or, ideally, Parish) Representatives will be laypeople appointed in each case by the relevant Diocesan Chaplains, priests appointed by the Council with the approval of the apostolates, with one in each diocese approved by each apostolate.
The forty-five policies identified by the National Representatives will have been declared by the apostolates to be consistent with Catholic Teaching. And the community project identified by each Deanery (or, ideally, Parish) Representative will have been so declared by the relevant Diocesan Chaplains.
We could have a Parish Representative in every parish in the United Kingdom well in time for a General Election in the spring of 2010. Why not? All that you need is a working email address, which you check more or less daily at least. My own, for those interested, is davidaslindsay@hotmail.com
Will your communications be written in green ink?
ReplyDeleteCardinal's Purple, of course. Which is red, just to keep things simple.
ReplyDeleteI think you'll find that there is a huge Catholic vote in the marginal seats of the Midlands and the North West, that it keeps the SNP out (and thus Labour in) in the West of Scotland, that it keeps certain Lib Dems in by a whisker in the Highlands, &c, &c, &c.
And you will also find that it is now angry. Very, very, very angry indeed.
So why does it need you to organise it?
ReplyDeleteIt needs someone. It doesn't really quite believe in its own power. But it will. We are going to make sure that it does.
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