{"id":7534,"date":"2004-04-07T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/at_nro.html"},"modified":"2004-04-07T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T09:22:29","slug":"at_nro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/at_nro.html","title":{"rendered":"At NRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fisking Kerry’s Catholic pronouncements<\/a><\/p>\n

And this, which states the point succinctly:<\/a><\/p>\n

Prior to these remarks, the question confronting the bishops was this: “Can a man who runs for president claiming to be Catholic while rejecting key Catholic moral teachings be ignored?” Now they confront a different question: “Can a man who runs for president, claiming to be a Catholic , rejecting key Catholic moral teachings, and insisting that the Church says that this is all O.K. be ignored?” That is, can they fail publicly to correct a prominent Catholic who not only rejects but also actively mischaracterizes Church teaching? Kerry evidently does not want his Catholicism questioned, but he has just made it much more difficult for the bishops not to question it \u2014 perhaps to his electoral disadvantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fisking Kerry’s Catholic pronouncements And this, which states the point succinctly: Prior to these remarks, the question confronting the bishops was this: “Can a man who runs for president claiming to be Catholic while rejecting key Catholic moral teachings be ignored?” Now they confront a different question: “Can a man who runs for president, claiming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAt NRO - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/at_nro.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"At NRO - 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