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"Tim Kaine: An Explosion Waiting to Happen?" --Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing
By The James Wilson Institute •
Posted on Jul 26 2016
Prof. Arkes provides a commentary on the Catholic VP running-mate of Hillary Clinton for the 2016 elections in his column "Tim Kaine: An Explosion Waiting to Happen?"
"We have seen this script before: The Democrats, confirmed now as a radical, pro-abortion party, will fill out their presidential ticket with a Catholic candidate for Vice President. He will be down-to-earth, with all of the warmth associated with a certain ethnic style of Catholic life. He will be earnest in his professions of attachment to the Church, he will attend Mass regularly. But for the sake of fitting into that party in its current incarnation, he is willing to detach himself, discreetly, from the deepest moral teachings of his Church, most notably, on the taking of innocent life in abortion.
"Thus it was with Joseph Robinette Biden, and thus it is with Timothy Michael Kaine now, as he joins the ticket headed by Hillary Clinton. Between the two, Kaine has had a wider experience in political life, and he seems to have had a deeper involvement in the life of the Church. His skills will become far more necessary now, for he has a harder task than Joe Biden had."
Read the whole piece here.