Biden, a Catholic School ‘Kid,’ Praises Nuns Under Fire From the Vatican

The New York Times ^ | 9/17/14 | Jason Horowitz

[marshmallow]

DES MOINES — At a Vatican meeting a few years ago, Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly asked Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for some advice. “You are being entirely too hard on the American nuns,” Mr. Biden offered. “Lighten up.”

Last year, Mr. Biden seized on an audience with Pope Francis as another opportunity to praise the sisters who remained the target of a Vatican crackdown for their activism on issues like poverty and health care.

And on a visit to Iowa on Wednesday, Mr. Biden literally, as he might put it, got on board with the nuns.

“You’re looking at a kid who had 12 years of Catholic education,” Mr. Biden, wearing a white shirt and a red tie, said before a backdrop of the gold-domed Iowa statehouse and a “Nuns on the Bus” coach bus. “I woke up probably every morning saying: ‘Yes, Sister; no, Sister; yes, Sister; no, Sister.’ I just made it clear, I’m still obedient.”

The issue of obedience has weighed on those nuns of late, as the Vatican has deemed the women on stage with the vice president radical feminists who pay too much attention to social justice and too little to promoting church teaching on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.

Mr. Biden’s visit came just weeks after Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the Vatican’s enforcer of doctrine, shocked many American nuns with his comments to a Vatican newspaper. As he defended the effort to rein in the nuns, the cardinal remarked, “Above all, we have to clarify that we are not misogynists; we don’t want to gobble up a woman a day!”

So while political reporters focused on Mr. Biden’s appearance as his first foray back into a presidential campaign season, the outing also put the nation’s first Roman Catholic vice president in the.....

[Servant of the Cross]

Slow Joe obviously skipped a LOT of classes while a “Catholic” (INO) school kid ......

[NativeSon]

But standing up against a tyrannical government is racist & domestic terrorism, right Joe? You POS

[circlecity]

"Last year, Mr. Biden seized on an audience with Pope Francis as another opportunity to praise the sisters who remained the target of a Vatican crackdown for their activism on issues like poverty and health care."

Oh yeah, right. The Vatican is waging war on nuns because they spend too much time feeding poor and nursing the sick. Fer sure. Once again I ask myself, why bother reading the NYT? At all.

[dead]

Instead of telling the Pope how to be Catholic, perhaps Joe should spend his time teaching his boss how to be American.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

you rock!

[Friendofgeorge]

I dont have the numbers with me, but is oit not around 50% of US Catholics that vote Democrat and hate Jesus? I think the numbers are in that ball park, are they not?

[Salvation]

The nuns in question here are the LCWR. No habits, no obedience, talk against church law, teach that homosexuality is OK....get the picture?

[circlecity]

"The nuns in question here are the LCWR. No habits, no obedience, talk against church law, teach that homosexuality is OK....get the picture?"

You misunderstood me, I was being sarcastic. As if the Vatican would ever sanction an order of nuns merrely for being charitible - which is what the Times was saying. That's ludicrous - that was my point. I know why the Vatican has put their foot down on this apostate order, and it was long overdue.

[NKP_Vet]

Smoke should start coming out of the mental midget Biden’s ears when he walks through the door of a Catholic Church. He’s the epitome of everything that’s wrong with the American Catholic Church. Believes in murdering babies on demand and believes in Tom and Dick getting “married”. He spits in the face of the Church. And most Catholic men are patriotic Americans. How many deferments did this draft-dodging airhead get to stay out of Vietnam?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This raises the question of who hates Catholics more, the anti-Catholic “Catholic” organizations organized and funded by George Soros, or the NYT? Seriously, even al-Jazeera would be more objective when talking about Catholics than either of these hate organizations.

[xone]

Instead of telling the Pope how to be Catholic, perhaps Joe should spend his time teaching his boss how to be American.

He doesn't know anything about that either.

[Tax-chick]

If this yutz weren’t Vice President, he’d be the tiresome drunk everyone ignores at the Knights of Columbus social.

[bunkerhill7]

“You are being entirely too hard on the American nuns,”

a Freudian slip by Biden`s subconscious libido

[Friendofgeorge]

My suggestion is to drop Catholicism and just go ALL IN for Christianity