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The authority of Pope Benedict XVI now has some competition from the House Democratic Catholic caucus, which has issued an election-season encyclical. That effort was spearheaded by Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and the former executive director of the abortion-rights group Emily's List, who explained, "We're rebelling against the idea of a one-issue church." The letter was signed by 55 Democrats, 35 of whom voted to keep partial-birth abortion legal. (They're perfectly willing to take dictation from a single-issue PAC.) The letter tries to have it both ways on abortion. It claims that the signatories agree with the Church on the "value of human life and the undesirability of abortion" while acknowledging "the tension ...