Posts Tagged ‘Catholic’
The politics of Catholic principle
Paul Ryan is a heartless bastard. That’s the message you’re hearing from the media, Nuns on the Bus, and a whole bunch of “social justice” Catholics. The gripe: his budget rolls back some poverty programs to Clinton-era levels. Not so fast, suggests the bishop in Congressman Paul Ryan’s diocese …
Read MoreWhy don’t Catholics condemn divorce as passionately as gay marriage?
A Quiner Diner’s reader asks: “Why don’t Catholics condemn divorce (especially no-fault divorce) the same as same-sex marriage? Jesus never spoke of homosexuality (and even Paul’s stand can be debated). Jesus spoke out several times against divorce – he saw it as adultery.” Here’s the answer …
Read MoreJoe Biden brings judgement upon himself
I received this tart response this morning:
Read MoreThe character chasm between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan
Where Paul Ryan shows guts, Joe Biden offers up gall. Where Paul Ryan sticks to Catholic principle, Joe Biden caves. Paul Ryan believes in the American Dream which by definition includes Life. Joe Biden believes in only one thing: winning the next election, even if it means jettisoning core principles.
Read MoreWhat the Paul Ryan Choice Brings Into Play Among Catholic Voters
With the choice of Paul Ryan as Romney’s running-mate, the 2012 presidential election will be the first in U.S. history with a Roman Catholic on both sides of the ballot. The contrast between the Catholicism of Vice President Biden and Congressman Ryan perfectly represents the ongoing debate about the Catholic vote going back to the Reagan years …
Read MoreThe Catholic vote just got a lot more important
The selection of Congressman Paul Ryan was the equivalent of injecting orthodox Catholics with high potency steroids. In Paul Ryan, we have a man who embraces his Church’s non-negotiable positions on Life and Marriage. Even more, he embraces his Church’s positions on key social justice issues. He simply approaches them differently than liberals want …
Read MoreWhy do some Catholics trust Obama to carry out our mission?
Rather than continue to rehash the story of pedophile priests and old, out of touch white men to denigrate the Catholic Church and attack it for teaching as Jesus taught, why don’t heterodox Catholics provide some insight into how they came to accept the Marxist/socialist agenda of Barack Obama to guide their lives rather than the doctrine of the church?
Read MoreTwo Catholic women debate Quiner’s Des Moines Register article
The publisher of Quiner’s Diner is my husband, Tom. A recent blogpost of his, “The Catholic Vote Could Tip the Election,” was picked up by The Des Moines Register. As you can imagine, he received some pretty strong push back from anti-Catholics and liberal Catholics. One response really caught my attention. As readers of this blog know, my husband is more than capable of rebutting contrarian positions. But with this one response, I felt compelled to stand up for my Church from a woman’s perspective …
Read MoreThe Catholic vote could tip the election
According to Matt Smith, president of Catholic Advocate (www.CatholicAdvocate.com), we Catholics represent but 16 percent of the state’s population, but 26 percent of the electorate. In other words, Iowa has nearly half a million Catholic voters, eighty percent of whom voted in the last election. Democrats can’t assume a majority of Catholics will vote for Mr. Obama again. After all, George W. Bush won the Catholic vote by 5 points in 2004 …
Read MoreA one minute interview with Mother Teresa
Do not read this interview if you are a “pro-choice” Catholic …
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