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Hewitt vs Hewitt
By"Ask about the candidates' values. Values matters. And if candidates distort their lives or claim supporters they don't have or achievements they didn't do, MSM should call them on it. What candidates say and do and said and did, are legitimate subjects for the political mill. But demanding that they debate theology is agenda journalism at work --the sort designed to mock and distort, not illuminate and clarify.
But leave questions about theology --about revelation-- out of politics," - Hugh Hewitt, today.
"If you know a Roman Catholic bishop or priest, please pass this along to him with a request for a response. If they don't mind, ask them to copy me on the response at hhewitt@hughhewitt.com.
John Kerry is the second most visible American right now, and the most visible self-identified Roman Catholic in the country. The most influential newspaper in the world, the New York Times, reported on Tuesday that Kerry had issued the equivalent of a new catechism for the Roman Catholic Church. ... The New York Times helpfully added that "Mr. Kerry apparently meant John XXIII, as there is no Pius XXIII." Too bad the paper couldn't explain the rest of Kerry's absurd statement, or add more detail to the new Kerry Catechism of Convenient Catholicism.
It will be interesting to see if the hierarchy of the American Roman Catholic Church allows this statement to go uncontradicted. If what Kerry says is true, then the Church really doesn't care if its members advocate for wide-ranging abortion rights and receive Holy Communion, despite the bishop of St. Louis' instruction to Kerry to refrain from the sacrament on that bishop's turf.
I am not familiar with those documents of Vatican II to which Kerry refers, and would appreciate direction to them. Perhaps they are in the small volume of works by Pope Pius XXIII," - Hugh Hewitt, April 7, 2004.
