A leading American prelate has urged voters to “be wary” of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine, a “cafeteria Catholic” who picks and chooses from Church teaching according to its political expediency.
In a stinging column in his diocesan newspaper, The Leaven, Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann said that it was “painful” to listen to Senator Kaine repeat “the same tired and contorted reasoning to profess his personal opposition to abortion while justifying his commitment to keep it legal” in the last vice-presidential debate.
While boasting of his Catholic credentials, Kaine fell back on “all the usual made-for-modern-media sound bites,” the Archbishop noted, such as it is “not proper to impose his religious beliefs upon all Americans” and he “trusts women to make good reproductive choices.” – READ MORE
