{"id":3021,"date":"2008-10-19T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2008-10-19T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T22:08:11","slug":"archbishop-criticizes-obama-catholic-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/archbishop-criticizes-obama-catholic-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop criticizes Obama, Catholic allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>God bless these Catholic bishops for their courage and passion for Truth and Christ. I wish just one Orthodox bishop would speak as boldly and publicly about the evil inherent in Obama&#8217;s wholesale endorsement of unrestricted abortion.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20081019\/D93TGS480.html\">AP<\/a> | Eric Gorski | Oct. 19, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput labeled Barack Obama the &#8220;most committed&#8221; abortion-rights candidate from a major party in 35 years while accusing a Catholic Obama ally and other Democratic-friendly Catholic groups of doing a &#8220;disservice to the church.&#8221; <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Chaput, one of the nation&#8217;s most politically outspoken Catholic prelates, delivered the remarks Friday night at a dinner of a Catholic women&#8217;s group.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were among the sharpest in a debate over abortion and Catholic political responsibility in a campaign in which Catholics represent a key swing vote.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Chaput, without getting into much detail, called Obama the &#8220;most committed&#8221; abortion-rights major-party presidential candidate since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To suggest &#8211; as some Catholics do &#8211; that Senator Obama is this year&#8217;s &#8216;real&#8217; pro-life candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse,&#8221; Chaput said according to his prepared remarks, titled &#8220;Little Murders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20081019\/D93TGS480.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God bless these Catholic bishops for their courage and passion for Truth and Christ. I wish just one Orthodox bishop would speak as boldly and publicly about the evil inherent in Obama&#8217;s wholesale endorsement of unrestricted abortion. AP | Eric Gorski | Oct. 19, 2008 Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput labeled Barack Obama the &#8230; <a title=\"Archbishop criticizes Obama, Catholic allies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/archbishop-criticizes-obama-catholic-allies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Archbishop criticizes Obama, Catholic allies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"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":[85,18,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-abortion","category-politics","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","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\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}