I have to agree that sadly there was as they put it a lot of "snarky" comments as a whole. This is really sort of sad since Newt seems to be for the most part not trying to talk in the press about this.
One thing caught my eye that is a problem we all are aware of:
Things are a bit different in the United States, of course. While Britain has never had a Catholic P.M., the United States has had a Catholic president. Still, being Catholic can complicate a political career: John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 and a Catholic, was threatened by some bishops with excommunication because of his support for abortion rights.
Um, I don’t have the best memory but I feel like I would remember if Kerry was threatened by some bishops with excommunication. I suspect that Seelye doesn’t understand the difference between excommunication and Catholic teaching about who should and should not receive communion. It was that latter point that various bishops weighed in on, considering Kerry’s support for abortion rights was in conflict with church teaching on the sanctity of human life.
That is very correct. I mean how many times have been throught this. The media just seems to confuse a snction as to communion with the most seveere sanction of excommunication all the time. Why is that?
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