{"id":12695,"date":"2020-09-29T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12695"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:21:41","slug":"undue-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12695","title":{"rendered":"Undue influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic Cardinal provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/catholic-cardinal-says-pro-choice-joe-biden-shouldnt-receive-communion-1534898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">good example<\/a> of the reason that questions about Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s religion are legitimate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A conservative Roman Catholic cardinal says Democratic presidential nominee <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Joe Biden should not receive Holy Communion<\/span> during Sunday Masses because <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">his views on abortion are at sharp odds with Vatican teaching<\/span>.<br \/>\n[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly, he is <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">not a Catholic in good standing<\/span>, and he should not approach to receive Holy Communion,&#8221; Burke says of Biden in the video footage, obtained exclusively by Zenger News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no escaping the fact that Christian teachings, and the public policy of the designedly secular United States, are sometimes in conflict and &#8212; Bill Donohue&#8217;s noisy harangues to the contrary &#8212; asking nominees how they will resolve that is reasonable and not evidence of bigotry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic Cardinal provides a good example of the reason that questions about Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s religion are legitimate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}