Kathleen, we know you

President Obama has concluded his search for a replacement nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. This cabinet level department is the one perhaps closest to Catholic interests, since the Catholic Church is the largest provider of hospital services and other health and life-needs services in the United States, indeed the world. So, after the failed nomination of pro-abort Catholic Tom Daschle, it seems natural that President Obama should seek another Catholic for the position. But did the President go looking for someone professionally knowledgeable in health care? No, he sought and chose an even more extreme abortion supporter, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius - one whose extreme record in defense of unfettered abortion bears resemblance to his own. She has, as well, the dubious distinction of being the only major Catholic politician to be reprimanded by her bishop and denied Holy Communion for the manifest grave sin of supporting abortion.

See George Weigel's excellent comentary of this story on First Things.