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Biden’s Catholicism in
Contrast to that of JD Vance’s, continued 08/06/2024 |
Yesterday we considered how JD Vance’s conversion to Catholicism five years ago seems to be of a very different ilk than the Catholicism Joe Biden has been practicing for some eighty years. |
In an article entitled “Vance gives Catholicism a bad name,” National Catholic Reporter editor Michael Sean Winters tells the story of how, when Vance was baptized and confirmed five years ago, his special guest in attendance was writer Rod Dreher. Dreher |
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was a Methodist who turned Catholic and then Orthodox. He later separated from his wife and left his children so he could move to Hungary to be near his hero, Viktor Orban. Orban is a hero to Trump and to Vance as well—even though and especially because he has pulled the rug of democracy from underneath his
country which, under his leadership is now a single-party state with no free judiciary or press to speak of. Driven by a Christian nationalism that refuses to live in a pluralistic culture or practice religious ecumenism, he yearns for a return of a so-called “Christian culture.” The day Biden delivered a very
solid press conference on NATO three weeks ago, Orban visited Trump at Mar a Lago, two peas in a pod. Both Orban and Peter Thiel, the billionaire backer to Vance, believe democracy is passé. Vance has given speeches at the Napa Institute which has hosted such far-right Catholic luminaries as Cardinal Burke
(“homosexuality is equivalent to murder”) and Steven Bannon—now in prison for spurning a subpoena to tell congress what he knew about the events leading up to January 6. |
Charles Coleman, Jr. breaks down where Vance stands on multiple key issues that could shape American life in the event of a Trump/Vance victory. MSNBC. | When Vance gave a keynote address at the uber conservative Franciscan University, another participant was Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard Law professor and proponent of “integralism,” which champions a government that “seeks to subordinate temporal power to spiritual power—or more specifically, the modern state to the Catholic Church.” |
Another speaker that day, Rachel Bovard, declared that the left seeks “normalized pederasty, forced euthanasia, postnatal abortion” and will disqualify “religious traditionalists and political conservatives from banking, property rights and public benefits.” Asks Winters: “Who talks like that? These are Vance’s intellectual running buddies.”* The version of Catholicism that Vance embraces includes the overturning of Roe v Wade by SCOTUS. Should Vance become the Vice President, says Elie, Justices Thomas, Alito, Kavanagh, and Barrett—"all would have a Catholic ally of like mind in the executive branch.”** |
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Notice how “post-natal abortion” is being spoken of as a goal of the left by Rachel Bovard of the Conservative Partnership Institute speaking at Franciscan University along with DJ Vance. That notion found its way recently into a Trump speech as well. Do you believe with Winters that politicians can give faith a bad name? |
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