Obama’s go-to Catholic advisers?

This is the obvious followup for those Catholic professors who claimed to be pro-life and pro-Obama:

Now that you helped get him elected, will you still hold any influence?

Archbishop Charles Chaput is holding them to intellectual honesty now. Particularly. Professor Douglas Kmiec.

In a letter to the editor to the web site Public Discourse, Chaput issued told Kmiec he would have to make good on his promises that Obama would reduce abortions and, in a more polite manner, told him to put up or shut up.

“I’m disappointed that in the course of his advocacy, [Kmiec] has apparently never faced up to the facts of Sen. Obama’s longstanding and extensive efforts to deprive an entire class of human beings–unborn children–of basic legal protections against homicide, or Sen. Obama’s pledge to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize abortion, thus coercively implicating Catholics and other pro-life citizens in the killing,” Chaput writes.

“Nor does Prof. Kmiec acknowledge that the foundational principle of the entire social Gospel is the right of every member of the human family to protection against unjust violent attack,” Chaput adds.

“Having spent months urging Catholics to vote for Candidate Obama despite the senator’s promises to remove all meaningful restrictions on abortion and to make abortion more widely available, Prof. Kmiec has a unique opportunity to press a newly elected President Obama to reconsider his most extreme positions,” Chaput wrote in the letter.

So, will Kmiec continue to be so vocal about his other advocacy, pro-life policies? Stay tuned.