{"id":2975,"date":"2008-09-10T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2008-09-10T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:02:26","slug":"bishops-criticize-bidens-abortion-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/bishops-criticize-bidens-abortion-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops criticize Biden&#8217;s abortion statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Election2008\/Default.aspx?id=245372\">One News Now<\/a> | September 10, 2008<br \/>\nAssociated Press &#8211; 9\/10\/2008 9:35:00 AMBookmark and Share<\/p>\n<p>Two U.S. Catholic bishops say Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden contradicted church teaching by saying that the question of when human life begins is a &#8220;personal and private&#8221; religious matter. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press, Senator Biden (D-Delaware) said that as a Catholic he believes life begins at conception, but that it would be inappropriate to impose that view on others in a pluralistic society.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Cardinal Justin Rigali and Bishop William Lori said Biden was correct in saying life begins at conception, but added that the church &#8220;does not teach this as matter of faith; it acknowledges it as a matter of objective fact.&#8221; They also said, &#8220;Protection of innocent human life is not an imposition of personal religious conviction but a demand of justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) recently angered many bishops and fellow Catholics when she told Meet the Press that the Catholic Church didn&#8217;t have a position on when life begins, and that the Catholic Church didn&#8217;t oppose abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One News Now | September 10, 2008 Associated Press &#8211; 9\/10\/2008 9:35:00 AMBookmark and Share Two U.S. Catholic bishops say Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden contradicted church teaching by saying that the question of when human life begins is a &#8220;personal and private&#8221; religious matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-abortion","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}