Christine Flowers: The sins of our second Catholic president
Christine Flowers - Syndicated Columnist
I am not the pope. I was never a nun. I am barely a good Catholic, even though I do the absolute minimum to keep my club membership current.
I am, however, a skilled detector of hypocrisy. Which makes me the perfect person to talk about the second Catholic president.
Joe Biden is a Catholic. He was baptized, and goes to church, so it is technically a correct description. So calling Joe Biden a Catholic is as legitimate as calling the pope a Catholic, or Lady Gaga a Catholic, or even Andrew Cuomo a Catholic. Heck, if Dr. Gosnell was baptized in the faith, he would also be a technical Catholic (although I am quite certain he was baptized in hellfire).
I am not the pope. I was never a nun (although I played one at Halloween, and briefly considered entering the convent before being informed that Iâd have to say farewell to the only physical attribute that made me smile in the 1970s: My long and lovely hair). I am barely a good Catholic, even though I do the absolute minimum to keep my club membership current. I am, however, a skilled detector of hypocrisy. Which makes me the perfect person to talk about the second Catholic president.
I can hear, from the other side of this keyboard, the intake of breath among some readers. Surely there are those who are getting paper cuts in their haste to turn the page and skip over my column. Others will swallow hard, pop a Tums, and gird themselves for the jeremiad of the Delco devil. Actually, I prefer to consider myself the devilâs advocate, providing an alternative viewpoint on matters from politics to food to fashion to, yes, religious authenticity. (Frankly you can ignore my comme
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