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America: The National Catholic Review identifies itself<\/a> as a \u201csmart, Catholic take on faith and culture, the leading provider of editorial content for thinking Catholics and those who want to know what Catholics are thinking,\u201d but their new interview<\/a> with Vice President Joe Biden is strikingly indistinguishable from the secular mainstream media\u2019s normal practice of giving pro-abortion politicians a complete pass.<\/p>\n

Much of the interview consists of Biden monologuing about how much he cherishes his Catholic faith and how it supposedly defines his political philosophy, culminating in this statement:<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any fundamental disagreement that, you know, we hold these truths self-evident, that all men are created equal. You can say it another way, the pope says it, every human being is entitled to be treated with dignity. So I find it totally consistent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Say, isn\u2019t there a group of human beings Biden has opposed granting equal dignity to? It is true that he was more moderate<\/a> on abortion earlier in his career, going so far as to oppose partial-birth abortion and favor overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em>. But it\u2019s also true that he now endorses Roe<\/a>, later in his career voted for<\/a> taxpayer funding of abortion, and the majority of his Senate scores<\/a> from the abortion lobby since 2001 have been 100\u00a0percent.<\/p>\n

And since becoming vice president, Biden has dutifully gone along with Barack Obama\u2019s absolutist pro-abortion presidency, with his most shamefully anti-life moment being the 2011 trip to China<\/a> where he went out of his way to make clear that he \u201cfully underst[ood]\u201d and wasn\u2019t \u201csecond-guessing\u201d the regime\u2019s one-child, forced-abortion policy.<\/p>\n

We expect the usual suspects on CNN or MSNBC to gloss all that over, but presumably a Catholic priest would find the contradiction worth a little digging, no? Well, Father Matt Malone asked him about it\u2014sort of:<\/p>\n

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And yet there have been times in, when talking about specific public policies where you\u2019ve had to take positions that were at odds with the bishops of this country, contentious questions like abortion; has that been hard for you?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wait, what? Malone\u2019s phrasing of the question raises three major red flags: that Biden \u201chad to\u201d support abortion (who made him? Did I miss an asterisk in the Bible that says \u201cunless it hinders your political career advancement\u201d?), that supporting abortion conflicts with American bishops rather than the more salient point of it conflicting with the Bible itself and nearly two millennia of Catholic doctrine<\/a>), and asking \u201chas that been hard for you?\u201d as if the real issue is poor Joe\u2019s personal struggle rather than God\u2019s children in the womb his position targets.<\/p>\n

The softball thrown, Biden swung:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m prepared to accept as a matter of faith, my wife and I, my family, the issue of abortion. But what I\u2019m not prepared to do is impose a rigid view, a precise view, a rigid view sounds pejorative, a precise view that is born out of my faith, on other people who are equally God-fearing, equally as committed to life, equally as committed to the sanctity of life, and I\u2019m prepared to accept at the moment of conception there\u2019s human life and being. But I\u2019m not prepared, I\u2019m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing and non-God-fearing people that have a different view [\u2026]<\/p>\n

There\u2019s even been disagreement in our church, not that\u2014 abortion is always wrong. But there\u2019s been debate, and so there\u2019s for me a point where the church makes a judgment\u2014 as we Catholics call de fide doctrine\u2014 said, \u2018This is what our doctrine is.\u2019 All the principles of my faith, I make no excuse for attempting to live up to\u2014 I don\u2019t all the time. But I\u2019m not prepared to impose doctrine that I\u2019m prepared to accept on the rest of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This should have raised a number of questions, from \u201cthen why are you prepared to impose your interpretation of doctrine on other issues?\u201d (such as when Biden lectured<\/a> Rep. Paul Ryan for a budget proposal \u201ccontrary to the social doctrine\u201d) to \u201cwhy do you define life at conception as an article of faith when it\u2019s also a fact of secular science<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

But the most important thing on which Biden should have been challenged is that his faith doesn\u2019t leave the decision up to him. It\u2019s hard enough to read Catechism paragraphs 2270-2272<\/a> as prescribing personal opposition and nothing more. But 2273<\/a> explicitly commands the very imposition Biden is “not prepared to accept”:<\/p>\n

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The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being\u2019s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death [\u2026] As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inalienable rights. Must. Civil society. The law. Penal sanction. Biden knows full well that Catholicism\u2019s abortion teachings are (small-p) political as well as moral, that it clearly and deliberately calls on public officeholders to do everything in their power to end this atrocity. But he has neither the decency to repent and challenge his party\u2019s devotion to death, nor the honesty to own the fact that he\u2019s defying his own religion and to leave it for one more compatible with his biases.<\/p>\n

Surely no man of the cloth would let such a blatant affront to the Word of God on something of such moral severity go unchallenged, would he? Alas, it turns out Malone did. His only follow-up:<\/p>\n

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MALONE: Is there a place in the Democratic Party for people who are pro-life?<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Absolutely. Absolutely, positively. And that\u2019s been my position as long as I\u2019ve been engaged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My, how generous of you not to actively blacklist people who take murdering children more seriously. Actually, even that sarcastic lamentation is too charitable toward the second-most prominent member of a political party who hasn\u2019t made a peep about his party pushing pro-life members away for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that was that. Off to other topics.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s shameless heresy on preborn rights is nothing new; what is more alarming is that a Catholic publication so completely let him get away with it. Disturbingly, it seems this wasn\u2019t just an instance of an interviewer being overly deferential to a major public figure\u2014Father Malone once worked<\/a> as special assistant and speechwriter to radically pro-abortion<\/a> Massachusetts Rep. Marty Meehan, suggesting his views may not be all that different from Biden\u2019s after all.<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re going to make the culture of life a reality, pro-lifers of faith must challenge those who help give the culture of death a veneer of religious legitimacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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