Posted on 10/17/2021 11:03:59 AM PDT by ebb tide
In early October, Joe Biden nominated Joe Donnelly, a former Indiana Senator, to serve as his ambassador to the Vatican. News coverage of the nomination has been misleading. “Biden nominates pro-life Democrat Donnelly as new Vatican ambassador,” says National Catholic Reporter. Donnelly is not pro-life, at least not in any consistent sense. “He has voted with Planned Parenthood Action Fund 67 percent of the time since he’s been in Congress,” reported the Indianapolis Star in 2018.
Like Biden, Donnelly is a Democrat first and a Catholic second. His career illustrates the tensions between membership in the Democratic Party and adherence to orthodox Catholic teaching. To survive as a Democrat, Donnelly gradually compromised his faith. In 2013, he flip-flopped on gay marriage, saying that he no longer had reservations about it.
“In recent years, our country has been involved in an important discussion on the issue of marriage equality,” he said. “With the recent Supreme Court arguments and accompanying public discussion of same-sex marriage, I have been thinking about my past positions and votes. In doing so, I have concluded that the right thing to do is to support marriage equality for all.”
Donnelly co-chaired Catholics for Biden during the 2020 campaign. He vouched for Biden’s pro-abortion Catholicism. “Joe Biden lives his faith every day,” he wrote in a column. “Every Sunday, he is on his knees attending Mass and praying for his country, his family, and all those in need in our beloved nation. I know this because I know Joe Biden and I come from the same Irish Catholic faith tradition.”
Donnelly sees no incompatibility between that tradition and funding Planned Parenthood.
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And Joe Biden is Bergoglio's idea of a sound Catholic world leader.
Ping
Heterodox Catholic.
Major or minor oxymoron?
Rape in the Church is “overlooked” in Louden Virginia too being so common as to not be reported to parents by our leadership in public schools and Biden’s idea of the Catholic Boys Club we call Church.
Apostate Catholic Ambassador from a Pretend Puppet Regime sent to Apostate Catholic Pretender Pope. Sounds right.
Yep. Fake catholic ambassador to visit the fake pope. Representing the fake president. Perfect.
There’s no particular reason why the ambassador to the Vatican needs to be a Roman Catholic, but the way the administration is playing it is highly dishonest.
The article is in error. Catholic comes first, then democrat. This guy, in my opinion is a CINO — Catholic in Name Only.
You can’t be a Catholic and support abortion at the same time.
But aren't you the one who always says, "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic"?
Surprised Biden didn’t appoint an avowed homosexual atheist.
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