Sep

10

Biden still wrong: Chaput

Posted By reynor | Filed Under News & Current Events, Quotes & Excerpts 

Senator Joseph Biden displays “flawed moral reasoning” on abortion, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput says, responding to a weekend statement by the vice-presidential candidate.

In the second statement in two weeks responding to comments made by Catholic politicians on the Sunday morning program, Archbishop Charles Chaput and Auxiliary Bishop James Conley of Denver are telling politicians “who describe themselves as Catholic,” to begin to “act accordingly, Zenit reports.

Senator Joseph Biden, Senator Barack Obama’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, who appeared on the NBC Meet the Press program last Sunday “compounded the problem” with his explanation of when life begins, according to the bishops.

The senator said that although he knows “when [life] begins for me,” he claimed it to be fundamentally a “personal and private issue.”

Even though as a Catholic he is “prepared to accept the teachings of my Church,” the senator said that in a pluralistic society it would be “inappropriate” to “impose that judgment on everyone else.”

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