Comments on: Lefty Catholic at “Faith in Public Life” Fires First Salvos at Santorum, And Misses

By: Hank

Hank — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:33:40 +0000

We don’t know if Santorum will or can do any more for life than Bush than take several hundred thousand more for reasons just as specious.

By: Christi

Christi — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:26:58 +0000

uh oh…. I never thought about what the left leaning Catholics would have to do if there was an Obama/Santorum match up…… Scary. It would shake the Church to it’s core, whatever the outcome of the election. I hope to God Santorum makes it, but is any one else a little scared?

By: DonS.

DonS. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:26:08 +0000

Did you notice that while worshippers of Ayn Rand like Ron Paul and Ann Coulter hate Santorum for the same reasons that Ayn Rand hated William F. Buckley Jr., the religious left continues to ignore the caution that Cardinal Ratzinger sent to the US bishops before the 2004 US elections, stating that Catholics have the right to disagree on how to aapply the general principles of the Church’s social teaching, and continue to insist that the Church requires that Catholics support the entire liberal wish-list?
That shows you who the real conservative, and who the real Catholic, is in this race.

By: lesalex

lesalex — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:34:03 +0000

Diane, this woulld be an opinion of the Vatican, not a teaching from the Magisterium. We are not required to accept it.

By: WBC

WBC — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:03:27 +0000

The Church has no competence to determine whether or not the climate is warming or whether any change in the climate is due to anthropogenic causes. Anyone who suggests that the Church has a doctrinal teaching on the subject that is binding on the faithful is ignorant of the Church.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:27:32 +0000

Legislation about marriage and abortion is mostly devolved to the states. I’m as pro-life as they come, but I can’t possibly support Santorum. His stands on pre-emptive war, torture and immigration are precisely in areas where the President is crucial, and in some instances, like war, the ‘decider.’ (I realize that Congress is supposed to declare war, but how many wars ago was the last time they did so?)

I’m not saying Obama is my ideal. In fact, both the contraception mandate (which could threaten my own health coverage, besides being immoral) and indefinite detention (signed by a professor of Constitutional law; I still can’t quite get that) have put paid to any temptations I had to lean toward him.

I know that a faithful Catholic has to both vote, and to decide among choices that don’t square with Catholic teaching. Which leads me to believe that I’ll write in my Presidential choice in November. But Santorum? Nuh uh.

By: Gervaise

Gervaise — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:58:51 +0000

Bruce, everyone on this site is allowed to express an opinion, whether it matches yours or not. I do not rashly judge Mr. Santorum. As a matter of fact, I think his personal life is off limits to criticism. But when he solicits votes through blatant racism and jeopordizes lives through his hawkish stance, he is fair game. By their fruits shall ye know them

By: geoff

geoff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:27:04 +0000

A catholic PAC is an oxymoron. While the temptation to align political and moral belief systems is tempting, it is ultimately undermining for the moral integrity for Catholics, in this case. Buyer beware.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:44:20 +0000

Thomas,

Here is an article from a supposed-lefty Catholic blog labeling Obama a war-lord.

http://vox-nova.com/2011/05/02/war-lords-theologies-of-violence-and-the-culture-of-death/

Cheers.

By: Peter Nyikos

Peter Nyikos — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:45:08 +0000

Two points, Nathan. One: are you old enough to remember how Israel bombed a nuclear facility in Iraq because of the danger that nuclear bombs would come out of it? Iraq has never come close to developing them since then.

Two: if a Presidential candidate were to advocate responsible spanking of children, would you refuse to vote for him on the grounds that he advocates torture? If not, I suggest you read the following website to see whether the “enhanced interrogation techniques” the Bush Administration used were more like spanking, or more like torture worthy of the name:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/28/despite-reports-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-waterboarded-times/