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blogs.reuters.com — Senator Joe Biden with Catholic priest Zhang Depu near Beijing, 10 Aug 2001/pool Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the ...
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Vatican Official Exposes Democrats as "Party of Death"
Gateway Pundit — ... help that their candidate has voted 4 times to support infanticide of newborn babies. Burke is not the only one speaking out against the democratic policies on life. Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen blasted Obama for his awful record on life in a devastating ad: BornAliveTruth.org has much more on Obama's voting record supporting infanticide. Reuters reported: Vatican officials seldom single out ...

Vatican official calls Democrats “the party of death”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... The elevation of Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI has brought a new assertiveness to the Roman Catholic Church, especially at the intersection of politics and life issues.  The new prefect of the Vatican Supreme Court, the former Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis, warned in an interview with an Italian newspaper that the Democratic Party is well on its way to becoming the “party of death” in the United States.  Burke called for greater discipline within the American church for holding Catholic politicians accountable for their actions: Vatican officials seldom single ...

Vatican: Democrats - the Party of Death
Say Anything — ... Vice Presidential candidates Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were singled out liars by the Prefect of the Vatican’s highest court, as he labeled the Democrats the"party of death.” ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/2/2008
Gates of Vienna — ... Vatican Official Attacks U.S. Democrats as “Party of Death” Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can expect things to get more explicit in Vatican City — at least when when it comes to U.S. politics. Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature ...

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: 'One of the Great Success Stories of All Time'
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... : "I've had it with the Left and I've had it with "conservatives" who haven't had it with the Left." Reuters : "Vatican official attacks U.S. Democrats as 'party of death'" ...

Carol Platt Liebau: A Word to Catholic Democrats
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — The prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature -- the Vatican's highest court -- has said that the Democrat Party risks "transforming itself definitively into a party of death. . ." because of its stance on abortion and bioethical issues. I've heard some on the left dismiss such comments in the past because they're from Vatican denizens who seem to have little familiarity with modern American life. But this one comes from the former Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis, himself an American. It's hard to figure out how Catholics can ignore such ...

The Vatican Echoes Ponnuru
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... A leading theocon, given a major position in the Vatican, is using his ecclesiastical authority to attack one party in the United States, and intervene in the US election: ...

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ON FOX and Friends this morning 10/03/08, a brief segment was devoted to a statement from a former Catholic Archbishop from St. Louis, who is now a Vatican official, who is upset with the Democratic Party's stance on bio-ethical issues including abortion and stem-cell research. Nancy Pelosi and ...
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