Quietly, Catholic bishops draw a stark choice for the faithful between Romney-Obama 5 Comments

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sure looked to be having a swell time at the recent Al Smith Foundation dinner in New York. We wrote about the many laughs and published a video of the charity roast here.

But here's another apparent truth:

As a result of what Catholic church leaders regard as some blatant double-dealing by the Democrat president on his ObamaCare regulations, the church has quietly launched a massive national information campaign among millions of church faithful.

Catholics are famously independent when it comes to their votes. Even if they were voting simply by religion, both vice presidential nominees are Roman Catholics, the first such time in U.S. history.

However, in such an apparently close contest, the switch of even a few hundred thousand votes in the right states could well suck sufficient ballots away from Obama to swing next Tuesday's election toward the Republican ticket.

The breadth and specificity of this year's determined education effort by the church is unprecedented in the memory of many close church observers.

As regulations were written earlier this year to implement the president's prized healthcare legislation, Cardinal Dolan and other church leaders believed their direct talks had negotiated a religious exemption from certain ObamaCare provisions that violate constitutional religious protections and run counter to Catholic teachings.