It looks as though Catholic opinion, as the American presidential elections approach, is more or less evenly split between Governor Romney and the incumbent president, despite the hostility among Catholics to the Obama regime’s Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") which, as The New York Times explained “requires coverage of the full range of contraceptive methods approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Among the drugs and devices that must be covered are emergency [abortifacient] contraceptives …. The rule also requires coverage of sterilization procedures for women without co-payments or deductibles. “The administration rejected a request from the Roman Catholic Church for a broad exemption for insurance provided to employees of Catholic hospitals, colleges and charities, although it said it would give such church-affiliated organizations one additional year …. Catholic bishops issued a statement saying they would fight the “edict” from the government. ‘In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences,’ said Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.” Catholics tend to vote Democratic, so to split the vote 50-50 represents a very definite pro-Romney swing. All the same, a disconcerting number of Catholics still support not only Obama’s Act, but even abortion itself. The fact is that the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” (not of course the Council itself) has ravaged the American Catholic Church, and split it from top to bottom, between the faithful on the one hand and the deeply secularised on the other: “The Catholic vote is highly complex,” according to a recent survey, which found (surprise, surprise)