Here We Go Again, Biden Edition

I am sure that the good majority of US Catholic Bishops will be extremely happy when the 2008 elections are over & the can go back to pretending like there are no Pro-abortion Catholics in office. Meanwhile, Joe Biden hasn't made life any easier for them. Even before he showed up on Meet the Press he should have known better based on what he saw & heard over the past 2 weeks. He tried to use Aquinas to justify his stand supporting abortion. Apparently he didn't learn a thing from Pelosi's fiasco. Did Biden not read, or comprehend, anything that any of those Bishops said that shot down her claims & his as well said? I suspect not, on both counts. This time, the Bishops will have an easier job, just change a few things to show what Aquinas really said & viola!!!!!

Here is the video of Biden's imitation of Pelosi:

Here is a transcript of the video from MSNBC's website:

MR. BROKAW: Two weeks ago I interviewed Senator Nancy Pelosi--she's the speaker of the House, obviously--when she was in Denver. When Barack Obama appeared before Rick Warren, he was asked a simple question: When does life begin? And he said at that time that it was above his pay grade. That was the essence of his question. When I asked the speaker what advice she would give him about when life began, she said the church has struggled with this issue for a long time, especially in the last 50 years or so. Her archbishop and others across the country had a very strong refutation to her views on all this; I guess the strongest probably came from Edward Cardinal Egan, who's the Archbishop of New York. He said, "Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being `chooses' to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name." Those are very strong words. If Senator Obama comes to you and says, "When does life begin? Help me out here, Joe," as a Roman Catholic, what would you say to him?
SEN. BIDEN: I'd say, "Look, I know when it begins for me." It's a personal and private issue. For me, as a Roman Catholic, I'm prepared to accept the teachings of my church. But let me tell you. There are an awful lot of people of great confessional faiths--Protestants, Jews, Muslims and others--who have a different view. They believe in God as strongly as I do. They're intensely as religious as I am religious. They believe in their faith and they believe in human life, and they have differing views as to when life--I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society. And I know you get the push back, "Well, what about fascism?" Everybody, you know, you going to say fascism's all right? Fascism isn't a matter of faith. No decent religious person thinks fascism is a good idea.
MR. BROKAW: But if you, you believe that life begins at conception, and you've also voted for abortion rights...
SEN. BIDEN: No, what a voted against curtailing the right, criminalizing abortion. I voted against telling everyone else in the country that they have to accept my religiously based view that it's a moment of conception. There is a debate in our church, as Cardinal Egan would acknowledge, that's existed. Back in "Summa Theologia," when Thomas Aquinas wrote "Summa Theologia," he said there was no--it didn't occur until quickening, 40 days after conception. How am I going out and tell you, if you or anyone else that you must insist upon my view that is based on a matter of faith? And that's the reason I haven't. But then again, I also don't support a lot of other things. I don't support public, public funding. I don't, because that flips the burden. That's then telling me I have to accept a different view. This is a matter between a person's God, however they believe in God, their doctor and themselves in what is always a--and what we're going to be spending our time doing is making sure that we reduce considerably the amount of abortions that take place by providing the care, the assistance and the encouragement for people to be able to carry to term and to raise their children.

Back in the Diocese of Wilmington , their new bishop will be installed today (8 Sept.). Bishop W. Francis Malooly knows what he is walking into. Gary Soulsman of The News Journal reports the following in an article he wrote:

"Malooly said he won't be surprised if the media ask him about the best-known member of his new diocese -- Sen. Joe Biden, who is running for vice president.
Biden, a 35-year member of the Senate, has said he believes in Catholic teachings on the sanctity of life but has often voted in favor of abortion rights.
"I'm anxious to have a chance to speak with him as I would any politician," Malooly said at a farewell reception in Parkville, Md., last Sunday.
He'll seek to understand Biden's point of view, much as he did with Maryland politicians. And Malooly said that he will share the scope of Catholic pro-life teachings with Biden.
A sizable number of Catholics hold beliefs that go against church teachings, the bishop said.
"I have to work on everybody, not just Joe Biden," Malooly said." (Big crowd expected at bishop's installation)

While I see some positives in Bishop Malooly's comments, 1 raises a question. "He'll seek to understand Biden's point of view, much as he did with Maryland politicians." HUH?????? Does he mean that he sees something valid in what Biden's views are, or does he mean he'll seek to understand where Biden is coming from so he can know how to properly deal with it in correcting him? I hope it is the latter. & if Biden doesn't repent of his pro-abortion stand Bishop, then what will you do? He has to know what the other Bishops have said &, despite that, still have made the statements he did, I doubt that a mere talk will do it Bishop.

In conclusion, I will repeat again what I said before, it looks like God is definitely not going to let this leave the front burner. He is going to keep the heat up on the Bishops to do what they should have been doing all along. Sadly, some still won't. But I will continue praying for my Archbishop & hoping that he will some day respond to God's grace & let the Holy Spirit lead him to finally do what he should have done a long time ago.