Vatican: Democrats - the Party of Death
Vice Presidential candidates Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were singled out liars by the Prefect of the Vatican’s highest court, as he labeled the Democrats the"party of death.”
Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can expect things to get more explicit in Vatican City — at least when when it comes to U.S. politics.
Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion.
He said Biden and Pelosi, “… while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”
Imagine! Religious leaders who take the cannons of their faith seriously, and expect those who confess that faith to actually live up to its precepts instead of compromising them on the altar of political expediency. Imagine that!
