Extremely disappointed with Catholic Answers

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LeafByNiggle said:
Then we can conclude that endorsing specific candidates is not part of required Church teaching, and that the faithful are free to use their prudential judgement in deciding who to vote for, just as the USCCB documents say.
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Did someone say it was?

Anyway, we must remember that the Church also is a steward of our funds. They should maintain a tax exempt status for the aims of the church, helping the poor and so on.

Your first statement seemed to diss not taking a political stance, now, one commends such.

Hardly consistent. I’m glad they point out who we should not vote for. Those who do not respect the sanctity of life. It’s all in the Magisterium. Nothing new here.
 
PaulinVA said:
Supporting someone who refuses to condemn the Proud Boys and White Supremacy is just shocking
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The President has condemned white supremacy already. There is no need for him to keep answering the same loaded questions. The Proud Boys are run by an Afro-Cuban and accept minorities into their ranks, so calling them white supremacist is inaccurate. Frankly, at this time, I have concluded that the Proud Boys are a net positive. I know of a certain transsexual political candidate who used them as security at at least least one his events after radical leftists objected to his viewpoints.
 
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Inquisitor85 said:
For my money I’d like to see them interviewed. I don’t mean watching Trump field some soft ball questions from Hannity or Biden from Maddow. I mean a proper old school political interview, where the interviewer refrains from getting drawn into a debate with candidates and gets them to answer the question put to them.
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David Frost or William F Buckley Jr would have been excellent at this sort of thing.

Oprah Winfrey would also be very good — she has a way of “drawing people out” — but I’m not sure she could be relied upon to keep matters politically neutral. Christiane Amanpour might also be a good choice.
 
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PaulinVA said:
Supporting someone who refuses to condemn the Proud Boys and White Supremacy is just shocking.
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He condemned white supremacy. The Proud Boys are not of the same ilk. They are led by a Cuban born man of African descent.

The fact that you can’t permit actual facts to penetrate your outrage is as disturbing as the fact that Biden refused to condemn Antifa’s terrorist actions.

The fact that many will ignore real events occurring on the streets for months and instead proclaim a fiction as the cause of their “shock” is more disturbing than Trump attempting to parse what is going on on the streets to make certain who is to blame is properly identified and held accountable.

 
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David Frost would have been good in his heyday, later on in his career he became known for “questions so soft they’re Andrex puppy dog soft*”. Although he could always get big hitters even when he moved to Al Jazeera at the very end of his career.

*For those who don’t know Andrex is a brand of toilet paper that uses Golden Retriever puppies in it’s marketing campaigns.
 
Odilon said:
who at this point in his life has poor mental acuity because of his age
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So age determines mental acuity? What does that say about our current President, who is only 3 years younger than Biden?
 
Inquisitor85 said:
David Frost would have been good in his heyday, later on in his career he became known for “questions so soft they’re Andrex puppy dog soft*”. Although he could always get big hitters even when he moved to Al Jazeera at the very end of his career.

*For those who don’t know Andrex is a brand of toilet paper that uses Golden Retriever puppies in it’s marketing campaigns.
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Al-Jazeera is a class act. I was watching them just last night while enjoying a microwaved dinner at our second home that I’m retrofitting with security features because it lies vacant much of the time. I’m also retrofitting it with internet connectivity and Chromecast/Roku, hence the availability of AJ.

I wasn’t familiar with Andrex. Will have to check it out the next time I’m in the UK (possibly 2022).
 
Naga said:
The President has condemned white supremacy already. There is no need for him to keep answering the same loaded questions. The Proud Boys are run by an Afro-Cuban and accept minorities into their ranks, so calling them white supremacist is inaccurate. Frankly, at this time, I have concluded that the Proud Boys are a net positive. I know of a certain transsexual political candidate who used them as security at at least least one his events after radical leftists objected to his viewpoints.
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Yes, I thought “Proud Boys” just had a Latino as its leader. Now, I read he is a black man. This is hardly even worth paying attention too except for the harsh way this matter is being distorted.
 
Sarcelle said:
A lot of third party voters have been subjected to heavy handed treatment here in this forum where posters insinuate that voting third party is a vote for the abortionists, aka Democrats, and is just as sinful.
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The OP was referring to the Hosts of Catholic Answers, not the forum.
petinley said:
Tim Staples, Jimmy Akin, and Trent Horn on C.A.L. (Jimmy and Trent on their own individual podcasts as well.)
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Furthermore, the Disclaimer at the bottom of every page is pretty clear:

“The views and opinions expressed in these forums do not necessarily reflect those of Catholic Answers.”
 
Peeps said:
I think it’s certainly possible that RvW can be overturned.
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It is possible. But I think it also makes sense to look at the evidence we have and see what it says, rather than go on speculative hope.

The evidence we have is that there is only one vote on the Court to overturn Roe and Casey. In every abortion case, Thomas writes a separate opinion that calls for the overturning of Roe and Casey. Scalia used to join those opinions. Since his death, no other Justice has agreed that Roe and Casey should be overturned. The last several Justices that have been seated have actually talked about the importance of Roe as precedent. So the available evidence is that the Court is four votes short of overturning.
Peeps said:
Also, the overturning of RvW does NOT mean that abortion is illegal in the U.S. All it means is that each sovereign state can make its own laws.
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This is correct, and I am unaware of any Justice who thinks that the Supreme Court has the power to make abortion illegal.
Peeps said:
I’m sure you already know that the Executive and Legistlative branches have no power to change the U.S. Consitution—only the Supreme Court can do that.
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This is actually completely backwards. The Court can interpret the Constitution. The Legislature (together with the States) can actually change the Constitution.
Peeps said:
Pres. Trump has been given 3 opportunities, and each time, he has chosen a justice that is a friendly to the pro-life cause.
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Yes, his nominees have been “friendly” to pro-life, but the two so far have declined to vote to overturn Roe. In the debate the other day, he suggested that Barrett would not do so, either. So I am not sure how that gets us any closer to overturning Roe.
 
LeafByNiggle said:
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HarryStotle:
He condemned white supremacy. The Proud Boys are not of the same ilk.
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Know them by their fruits. Here is an interactive map of Proud Boys incidences. Some are innocent enough. Others, not so much. Just zoom the map and click on a few and see what their fruits are.
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I don’t see riots, arson, looting, attacks on police or people being murdered on the street.

To be completely fair, why not provide a comparable map of Antifa incidences?

I suppose one won’t be made available because Antifa is just an idea. 🤔 Ideas, apparently, are never the causes of destruction or mayhem.

Somehow no one could get away with saying Proud Boys is just an idea, like the left can get away with all kinds of framing of “ideas,” even when those “ideas” create damages in the billions of dollars.
 
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petinley said:
Tim Staples, Jimmy Akin, and Trent Horn on C.A.L. (Jimmy and Trent on their own individual podcasts as well.)
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OK… that answers the “who?” and “what program?” questions. What about “when?”…? Can you point us to a particular program (and, if possible, a timestamp within an episode) that we can listen to and ponder?
 
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Tim Staples has been fairly overt about it in the past. I have a link bookmarked in which he talks to a caller who can’t bring himself to vote for a certain candidate because of their personality, but also can’t vote for the other candidate because of their positions. I will post the link when I get back to my computer.

Trent Horn is more subtle, and I can’t think of any time offhand when he has voiced support for any specific party or candidate, but from listening to him, particularly when discussing socialism, I get the feeling that he holds similar views to Tim Staples.

I can’t think of a single time Jimmy Akin has said anything that would indicate support for a specific party or candidate, but his association with Catholic Answers leads me to assume he holds similar views to the aforementioned two.
 
The biggest con man? Says who… God will judge one day.

However, he does stand up for Christians and Catholic teaching (whether it’s for his base or for real only God knows). The Democrats- of course they don’t , they dislike Christians- not to mention other horrible policies , that makes little sense voting for them even if y’ure not a committed Christian

There is no point supporting a 3rd party politically or voting for them. The way things are set up they would never win.

Where did all the 3rd party candidates go in 2016- gone , lost to the dustbins of history
 
HarryStotle said:
Somehow no one could get away with saying Proud Boys is just an idea, like the left can get away with all kinds of framing of “ideas,” even when those “ideas” create damages in the billions of dollars.
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Without agreeing or disagreeing with the statement, its worth pointing out that Biden’s statement on Antifa was not his own. He was quoting the current (Trump handpicked) Director of the FBI. It was he who said that white supremacists are the largest threat to public safety, and that Antifa is an idea not an organization.
 
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