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Originally posted by Spanky
I am not a Catholic (White Protestant Male that votes Republican - there is a surprise) so I find this stuff fascinating. Do you think a pro-death penalty Catholic politician should be able to get communion?
There were many policy positions that JP took that I did not like, but I think his lack of hypocracy made him a total stud boy - so to speak. I wish we had more religious leaders (especially on my side of the Christian aisle) with his strenght of character.
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I don't recall anything coming out of the vatican regarding how you can vote or not based on single-issues. I think there is some hypocrisy from the bishops who took the single-issue communion policy, at least as it relates to vioters, but you can make an argument that the death penalty is permitted by Catholicism. JPII basically said he cannot envision a scenario in which it could be applied justly, but not that it isn't permitted under CAtholic teaching. IIRC one of the saints' (Augustine I think but I'm years out of CCD and flunked confirmation) just war theory has been interpretted to bless many things you wouldn't typically associate with Jesus or the Catholic faith.
JPII was rigid but for the most part a noble and great man. I will assume that his faculties had escaped him by the time he set Bernie the Pimp up in a posh pad in Venice, since Bernie and many of the catholic bishops deserve a lifetime of rear entry rape in prison followed by a single bullet to the cranium for what they did to so many children. Bernie and his ilk may as well have given viagra to and fluffed the abusers, their behavior was tantamount to that. To see any of them going around telling who can receive the holy sacrement based on single issue voting is a sickening thing. I would accept that position as just, but not from those bishops.
