Tim Kaine and the Radical Priest

Tim Kaine’s public record and his time in Honduras suggest that he has adopted a form of Catholicism that is at odds not only with what his church believes but with the interests of the United States,” said Brian Burch, the group’s president. “He is both in opposition to his church and in opposition to the interests of his own country.”

  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/03/tim-kaine-s-time-with-a-marxist-priest.html

USCCB Responds to Tim Kaine

As pastors of the Church it is timely to reaffirm the Church’s authoritative teaching about marriage as it comes to us from God as the author of creation and of revelation. The Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage as exclusively the permanent, faithful, and fruitful union of one man and one woman cannot change.

 As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, hearkening back to the timeless words of the Book of Genesis: “‘The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws…. God himself is the author of marriage.’ The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator” (CCC, no. 1603). And despite so many various cultural changes and understandings, this “order of creation persists…” (no. 1608).

For the complete letter, go to:  http://www.usccb.org/news/2016/16-120.cfm

Tim Kaine's Catholic Heritage....

Connect the dots with a little history, and an alarming picture emerges of Kaine's adventures with radicals and revolutionaries in 1980s Latin America.

Reports indicate that in Honduras, “Mr. Kaine embraced an interpretation of the gospel, known as liberation theology...”

This wasn't mainstream “Catholic thought” at the time. It was a radical, Marxist-based ideology at odds with the Church, the pope, and the United States, but supportive of (and supported by) the Soviet Union.

Tim Kaine's Catholic Heritage

Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo responding to Tim Kaine

The Church's Teaching on Marriage

For the Sake of Unborn Children, Donald Trump Has to Pick Judges Not Hillary Clinton

“For the sake of the sanctity of life, we must ensure Donald Trump selects the next Supreme Court justice,” Pence said.

Pence appeared at the rally with pro-life leader Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List.

For more, go to: http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/29/mike-pence-for-the-sake-of-unborn-children-donald-trump-has-to-pick-judges-not-hillary-clinton/

A Word of Two from Bishop Chaput

Presidential campaigns typically hit full stride after Labor Day in an election year.  But 2016 is a year in which two prominent Catholics – a sitting vice president, and the next vice presidential nominee of his party — both seem to publicly ignore or invent the content of their Catholic faith as they go along.  And meanwhile, both candidates for the nation’s top residence, the White House, have astonishing flaws.

This is depressing and liberating at the same time.  Depressing, because it’s proof of how polarized the nation has become.  Liberating, because for the honest voter, it’s much easier this year to ignore the routine tribal loyalty chants of both the Democratic and Republican camps.  I’ve been a registered independent for a long time and never more happily so than in this election season.  Both major candidates are – what’s the right word? soproblematic – that neither is clearly better than the other.

For more, go here: http://catholicphilly.com/2016/08/think-tank/archbishop-chaput-column/some-personal-thoughts-on-the-months-ahead/

KofC: Catholic Politicians Should Follow Church Teaching

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 17, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The leader of the Knights of Columbus has said Catholic politicians should follow the Catholic Church’s teachings or resign from office.

In an op-ed for The Hill, KofC Supreme Knight Carl Anderson begins by citing the common argument by pro-abortion politicians that they may wall off their public and private morality into separate, hermetically sealed compartments:

This line of reasoning got its start from the late New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in a speech at Notre Dame in 1984. He said: “As a Catholic I accept the church's teaching authority...I accept the bishops' position that abortion is to be avoided.”

Question:  Is he a member of the Knights?  If yes, he needs to be stripped of his membership in good standing.


More, go here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/catholic-politicians-should-embrace-church-teaching-or-quit-knights-of-colu

Kaine Says Cheating Politicians Should Resign (does that go for liars?)

Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal—at least, that’s a view Tim Kaine once held.

Kaine’s remark—reported 14 years ago in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the aftermath of a state-level sex scandal—hasn’t drawn any attention thus far in the 2016 presidential cycle. But it suggests Hillary Clinton’s running mate at one point harbored reservations about the integrity of the man poised to become the country’s first first gentleman.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/17/tim-kaine-once-said-cheating-politicians-should-resign-including-bill-clinton.html

Confused by Tim Kaine’s latest abortion flip-flop? Don't be fooled by the flim-flam!

Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine’s position on the Hyde Amendment seems to have confused many people – no one more so than himself.

The Democratic Party has given mixed signals about whether Kaine supports repealing the Hyde Amendment, a 1970s-era law that prevents taxpayers from funding abortion-on-demand. Hillary Clinton has promised to strike the law off the books, a position officially adopted in the 2016 Democratic Party platform.

Initially Kaine , who once styled himself a “pro-life Democrat,” said he favored the Hyde Amendment. Then the party jumped in to “clarify.”

“He has said that he will stand with Secretary Clinton to defend a woman’s right to choose, to repeal the Hyde amendment,” Clinton campaign official Robby Mook toldCNN on July 24. Two days later, Clinton spokesman Jesse Ferguson verified that Kaine’s promise to repeal Hyde had been “made privately.”

On Sunday, Kaine flip-flopped again, saying he had not changed his views at all. "That is not accurate and I don't think Robby has said that, Jake,” Kaine replied, although video footage shows Mook saying just that.

For the complete story, go to LifeSite News:  

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/confused-by-tim-kaines-latest-abortion-flip-flop-heres-the-bottom-line

Kaine’s Conscience and His Party’s Hard Line on Abortion

From National Catholic Register:

Back in 2008, when Kaine was on Obama’s short list of running mates, Kaine told Charlie Rose, “There’s a moral gravity, I think, to abortion as an issue that has to be respected.”

That kind of talk raised questions after Clinton announced that Kaine would be the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential candidate.

So the question is, what will he do?

For the entire editorial:  http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/kaines-conscience/