We Must Identify Our Enemies And Drive

I Think It Is Important That Religious Leaders Of All Kinds Consciously Attempt To Distinguish Between Issues Of Natural Law On Which There Is Consensus Among Catholic, Protestant, And Jew And Those Issues On Which There Must Be A Greater Degree Of Tolerance Of Other Peoples' Opinions And Of The Diversity That Is Characteristic Of American Society.

The Notion That Big Business And Big Labor And Big Government Can Sit Down Around A Table Somewhere And Work Out The Direction Of The American Economy Is At Complete Variance With The Reality Of Where The American Economy Is Headed. I Mean, It's Like Dinosaurs Gathering To Talk About The Evolution Of A New Generation Of Mammals.

We Do Not Put Enough Emphasis On Early Childhood Years. We Neglect Children In This Society; As A Society We're Guilty Of Child Neglect. If We Could Eliminate The Vestiges Of Racism, If We Could Develop A More Powerful Agenda For Child Care, Child Development, And A More Powerful Education System, We Could Prevent A Lot Of The Incapacities Which In Turn Tend To Generate Structural Unemployment.

We Have To Preserve It And Use It Sustainably. And The Short-term Use Of Resources At The Destruction Of The Long-term Heritage Of This Country Is Not A Policy That We Can Pursue.

I Was Nurtured In The Church; I Went To A Catholic School; I Was An Altar Boy; I Went To A Catholic University; I Was Steeped In The Moral Tradition Of The Catholic Church. My Catholicism Plays A Very Strong Role. But I Thought President John F.kennedy Answered Rather Well When He Said That Ultimately My Conduct As A Public Official Does Not Come Ex Cathedra From Rome; It Comes From My Conscience.