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.GP adds the following reminder:
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.”
...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.
It doesn't help that their candidate has voted 4 times to support infanticide of newborn babies. BornAliveTruth.org has much more on Obama's voting record supporting infanticide.Here's a reminder of a powerful ad on Obama's record on...well...on life, which Obama doesn't seem to support:
Previous posts on this topic: here, here, here, here, here, here.
I am not a Catholic, nor a Democrat, nor do I support Obama. For those of you who fit those categories, how do you reconcile these things, especially in the light of a prominent Vatican official calling the Democrats the party of death?
Please inform me, because I can't make that leap of logic in my mind.
There's my two cents.
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