The Catholic Faith in America is in ruins. On Oct 3, 5:09 pm, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with > the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell > research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an > American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can expect > things to get more explicit in Vatican City — at least when when it > comes to U.S. politics. > > Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the > Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper > Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself > definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical > issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile > Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker > Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion. > > He said Biden and Pelosi, “while presenting themselves as good > Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and > tendentious way.” > > Pelosi drew U.S. bishops’ scorn for saying in a television interview > last month that the Church itself had long debated when human life > begins. Biden is a practicing Catholic who also supports abortion > rights and analysts have said he could help woo wavering Catholics > into Obama’s fold. Both argue that they cannot impose their religious > views on others. > > Burke said pro-life Democrats were “rare” and that it saddened him > that the party that helped “our immigrant parents and grandparents” > prosper in America had changed so much over the years. > > http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/10/01/vatican-official-attac... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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