catholic right pat robertson the roman catholic conservatives are coming out in the open to line up with pat robertson and his ultra right wing christian coalition former secretary of education william bennet a roman catholic stood beside the christian coalition s spokesman ralph reed at a march conference in washington the purpose of the conference was to publish results of a christian coalition poll which was designed to prove that the republican party would lose major support if it backed away from the family values positons of the convention conservative catholics have swung behind robertson s organization with political expertise legal assistance and high tech communications support the catholic campaign for american designed as a catholic version of the moral majority was founded by marlene elwell and tom wykes ms elwell has been with robertson since the days of his freedom council in and worked for him in his presidential bid in ms elwell was hired by domino s pizza magnate tom monaghan in to manage legatus a nonpolitical catholic businessmen s group membership is limited to catholics who head corporations with a least million in annual revenues relying on a network of wealthy contacts at legatus elwell and wykes had little trouble forming and funding the catholic campaign the campaign s list of national committee members includes u s rep robert k dornan phyllis schlafly of the eagle forum the lovely pat buchanan and rev richard j neuhaus also on the national committee is keith fournier a catholic who heads pat robertson s american center for law and justice another catholic thomas patrick monaghan senior counsel of robertson s aclj is also an active supporter of the catholic campaign the board of directors includes frank shakespeare broadcasting exec and former u s ambassador to the pope wall street executive frank lynch former reagan official richard v allen bishop rene gracida of corpus christi and mary ellen bork wife of unsuccessful supreme court nominee robert bork in the winter issue of campaign update the organization s quarterly newsletter rocco l martino a philadelphia business executive wrote separation of church and state is a false premise that must finally be cast aside and replaced by the true meaning of our constitution oh yes the organization s national ecclesisatical advisor is catholic politician cardinal john j o connor of new york jack carroll
