Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Rejects while Obsessing about Birth Control

[Dennis S]

Juan Cole pretty much nails Frothy to the wall:

http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/top-ten-...ntrol.html

[cbelt3]

...Is he running as a Catholic Candidate ?

I don't see signs of it. His affiliations seem more to the extreme religious right, which implies southern Christian fundamentalist ... sects of Baptist. The American Catholic is, as others have pointed out, more of a compassionate conservative with a bias towards basic Christian tenents of peace, help for the weak and poor, and so forth.

[Grace62]

The guy is running saying the most important thing to him in his life is his faith, and since he's Catholic, I think it's fair to say he's running as a Catholic candidate. He also makes a point of saying he believes that civil rights come from God, not the Constitution, which is a position I find a little frightening.

He and other Republicans get around the cherry-picking aspect of that and the charges of hypocrisy by saying "he's not running for pastor."

In 2005 Rick Santorum was chosen by Time magazine as one of the country's top 25 most influential evangelists. Not political leaders, evangelists.

[Dennis S]

He IS a Catholic. So, he is a major hypocrite.

[cbelt3]

Seems to be less Catholic and more tele-evangelist. Probably a member of a Catholic sub-sect like the Marianists.. some of them are scary militant. My BIL is a member of one, and so, therefore, is my sister and their 12 children. Freaky weird stuff going on there.

[Dennis S]

I promise you Santorum is weirder than we all suspect.

[michaelb]

i am not sure any of those are catholic teachings. political statements or principles are not part of the theology (at least to me, as an atheist).

[beagledave]

He's a cafeteria Catholic..an insult that conservative Catholics have no problem flinging at moderate or liberal Catholics who have problems with things like an all male priesthood.

But if you're going to pick and choose which social justice teachings you will cotton to....

[Grace62]

Rick and Karen Santorum are in Opus Dei, and their son attended the Opus Dei school in Potomac, MD for a time. Another person into Opus Dei, and also with her son at that school, is Maggie Gallagher of National Organization for Marriage infamy.

So they are lay people doing Catholic work in their secular lives.

[beagledave]

Grace62 wrote:
Rick and Karen Santorum are in Opus Dei, and their son attended the Opus Dei school in Potomac, MD for a time. Another person into Opus Dei, and also with her son at that school, is Maggie Gallagher of National Organization for Marriage infamy.

So they are lay people doing Catholic work in their secular lives.

He apparently says that he is not in Opus Dei, although I suspect that he is sympathetic to their world view.