{"id":5168,"date":"2012-05-22T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2012-05-22T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:32:00","slug":"is-the-pope-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5168","title":{"rendered":"Is the Pope Republican?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Matthews, a Catholic Democrat, isn’t sure<\/a>, at least about the bishops, and neither was Sister Simone Campbell, executive director at the National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. While discussing the requirements that the Catholic Church must provide insurance for contraception (against its teachings), Matthews asked if the bishops were all aligned with a certain political party, based on their views on this.<\/p>\n

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MATTHEWS: Do you think they\u2019re all Republican, the bishops?<\/p>\n

CAMPBELL: I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re all Republican, but it sure seems that they\u2019re speaking from the, the playbook, sort of possibly as surrogates for the Republican Party, I don\u2019t know. But they certainly are engaged in politics that seem much more aligned with the Right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Noel Sheppard, covering this for NewsBusters, comes up with the numbers regarding Catholics and political party.<\/p>\n

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Catholics in this country historically have been solidly Democratic, although this has waned in recent years.<\/p>\n

As EWTN News reported in February, a 2011 Pew study found 48 percent of Catholics surveyed said they were Democrat or Democrat-leaning compared to 43 percent claiming to be Republican or Republican-leaning.<\/p>\n

As such, it seems absurd to think all Catholic bishops are Republican.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So no, the Pope isn’t necessarily Republican<\/em>, but he is Catholic<\/em>. Matthews ought to know that. But for the Left, everything is political. Even religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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