{"id":7372,"date":"2004-05-02T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/steinfels_on_santorum.html"},"modified":"2004-05-02T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T12:36:40","slug":"steinfels_on_santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/steinfels_on_santorum.html","title":{"rendered":"Steinfels on Santorum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing very surprising or shocking about any of this, just the ordinary stuff of politics. But the politicking that went into Tuesday’s primary was a contrast with the rhetoric of Wednesday’s prayer breakfast, where, according to The Washington Times and the Religion News Service, Mr. Santorum held forth on Catholic priests’ lack of fervor in teaching the true faith and where the organizers warned against compromising “unambiguous truths” and drew sharp lines between “faithful” and “unfaithful” Catholics.<\/p>\n

No wonder Catholic bishops are backing away from the quicksand of trying to uphold church teaching on the value of unborn lives by barring political figures who support abortion rights from receiving Communion at Mass. Are the bishops going to penalize the Catholic politician who votes against legal restrictions on abortion but not the Catholic politician striving to re-elect a non-Catholic who votes against legal restrictions on abortion? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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