“I knew Carter was wrong in his views about Roe and soft toward permissive abortion. But even as a priest, I justified working for him because…he was right on so many more of the “Catholic” issues than his opponent seemed to be. The moral calculus looked easy.”
This is the argument of a weak intellect and an even weaker soul. It is not in any way Catholic.
Chaput was young and very naive then. Today Chaput is older and still naive about a lot of things.