I agree entirely with RP. And a number of readers who were at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in D.C. would have preferred Santorum had not been a speaker at the event this morning. One is characteristic: “Sen. Santorum was one of the speakers and gave an impassioned (if not too well organized) speech on the obligation to have the courage to stand with Christ and stand up for our (Catholics) beliefs. He even chastised the clergy present for the actions of their brethren, whom he indicated have been less than stalwart on abortion and other social issues. I found his speech impossible to reconcile with his actions in the PA primary. (Unless, I guess, he really did believe that the Senate majority and/or Bush re-election hinged on Specter’s re-election.) ” As Ramesh points out, it could certainly be reconciled, but it happens to be bad judgment in this case–and a very unfortunate one at that.
KL
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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