This is just not what i do. I monitor and lobby the UN on life and family matters. There are such mass movements of prayer, as i mentioned before. Perhaps you should hook into them? There is Crossroads, which is a cross the country walk for college students. Check them out. As i have tried to stress in these posts here. The pro-life movement is not a single thing, does not speak with a single voice, does not act in lock step. There is something for every calling, including yours Ronald!

All we need is the faith of a mustard seed.
If you think I am crazy then just tell me so and I will not bother you anymore.
God Bless all of us half-dead creatures who are attempting to save ourselves from further discomfort.

bank preemtion? Nope.

I am aware of American conservative’s historic attachment to the principle of states right. I think however you overestimate that progressives support the contrary. Again, we certainly would like to see matters resolved on the shop floor through collective bargaining.

Also, I take it you have not been following the debate over bank pre-emption.

I said, “Roughly speaking” federalism and this “roughly speaking” refers to institutions other than government, most especially the family. I think politically conservative Catholics have a very strong understanding of federalism as opposed to politically liberal Catholics who seem to begin adn end with the largest institutions of government. If it is not done by the federal government, somehow we are not being good Catholics.

I think you are correct that most politically conservative Catholic understand it that way. They also are mistaken. Subsidarity is not fully understood if just taken to mean which level of civil government (in the American context, one of the most decentralized and layered governmental systems in the world, to mean federal/state/local).

Subsidarity in its fullness refers not to levels of government but all social organs with an eye to the ability of people to participate.

The three most referenced in CST would be the Church herself, the family and worker organization. Of course, this implies that the Church, the family and trade unions are freely allowed to exist and even promoted by society and the state.

Sadly, the strident hostility to trade unions by poliitcal conservatives is in direct contraction to CST and the ability to employ subsidiarity.

One is led to assume when conservatives do speak of subsidarity, they do not mean addressing social concerns at the level they can be most effectively addressed, but at a level that is ineffective at addressing such concerns.