Fifty Five Catholic Bishops Denounce Joe Biden

Fifty five Catholic Bishops have come out and denounced Barack Obamas running mate, Joe Biden. That's not all. Biden is being attacked by Catholic newspapers, TV and radio stations, and blogs across the United States.

Archbishop Raymond Burke, former Archbishop of St Louis and now Prefect of the Apostolic Segnatura in Rome, said communion should be denied to pro-abortion politicians "until they have reformed their lives".

Archbishop Chaput of Denver announced Biden should not receive communion because of his pro-abortion views. Biden defiantly took Communion after this in his home parish in Delaware.

The Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania banned him from communion in his diocese. Pennsylvania is a huge swing state this year.

Biden has done a great job of killing Obamas chances with Catholics.

On NBC's Meet the Press programme on September 7 Biden grossly misrepresented the Catholic Church's teaching on abortion and audaciously cited St Thomas Aquinas in his own cause.

That did it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had already done the same thing on the same programme, in her instance citing St Augustine. Even the torpid US bishops could not have false doctrine glibly broadcast by public figures, misleading their flock. So the counterattack described here last week began, culminating in a statement from the US Bishops' Conference. The bishops of Kansas City have also issued a pastoral letter on the subject. It is open season on Biden.

There are 47 million Catholic voters in the United States. One quarter of all registered voters are Catholics. At every presidential election in the past 30 years the Catholic vote has gone to the winning candidate, except for Al Gore in 2000. This year 41 per cent of Catholics are independents - up from 30 per cent in 2004. Psephologists claim practising Catholics were the decisive factor in the crucial swing states in 2004: in Ohio 65 per cent of Catholics voted for Bush, in Florida 66 per cent. They were drifting away in disillusionment from the Republicans and split 50-50, until Joe Biden worked his magic. This is electoral suicide by the Democrats.

Most of the Catholics that I know will not vote for a man that believes in "killing unborn children." Myself personally, I am against abortion but I would have a hard time voting on the issue. Biden though has shown how he would vote.