Is the Pope Catholic?

Shortly after signing on as Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running-mate, Senator Tim Kaine cheerily described his mission as reaching out to the Pope Francis Catholics. The Jesuit educated Kaine has joined a long line of Democratic politicians who are trying to have it both ways: professing to be "good Catholics" and advancing a pro-choice, "progressive" agenda that conflicts with long standing teaching of their church.

It is hard to imagine that these politicians, many of whom blatantly use their Catholicism as vote-generators, are not aware that they are advancing policies and laws that are in direct contradiction to the doctrines of their professed faith. And, worse, they are leading vast numbers of their co-religionist to the belief that it is okay to go along with their new, relaxed views.