WOW, just WOW…. To me there has always been an issue with abortion, the Democrats and the Catholic Church. I could never figure out why they would always push the Democrat candidate when they clearly hold and push the opposite view even to the point of partial birth abortion and infanticide. Maybe Obama has put them over the edge with his views and his legislation. Obama voted against helping a baby that survived abortion, can you imagine that? Throwing aborted babies in a pile of dirty linens tto be left alone to die, and Obama is all for it. His opinion of a young girl getting punished with a baby…. His views are further left than any others.

Vatican official calls Democrats “the party of death”

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 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 in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion.

He said Biden and Pelosi, “while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”

Benedict chose Burke for a reason. He wants a closer focus on the way Catholics handle issues of life, especially abortion, in the public square. The church spent most of the last three decades quietly backing away from the notion of politicians who claim to be practicing Catholics and yet support abortions, which the church doctrine rejects so forcefully that it is a de facto ex-communicating event. Burke led the charge on this in 2004 during the presidential campaign when he openly called for John Kerry’s bishop to deny him the Eucharist. Much more here…..