Biden Taps Heterodox Catholic to Represent US at Vatican
Joe Donnelly is Biden’s idea of a sound Catholic.
by George Neumayr
October 16, 2021, 11:49 PM
In early October, Joe Biden nominated Joe Donnelly, a former Indiana Senator, to serve as his ambassador to the Vatican. News coverage of the nomination has been misleading. “Biden nominates pro-life Democrat Donnelly as new Vatican ambassador,” says National Catholic Reporter. Donnelly is not pro-life, at least not in any consistent sense. “He has voted with Planned Parenthood Action Fund 67 percent of the time since he’s been in Congress,” reported the Indianapolis Star in 2018.
Like Biden, Donnelly is a Democrat first and a Catholic second. His career illustrates the tensions between membership in the Democratic Party and adherence to orthodox Catholic teaching. To survive as a Democrat, Donnelly gradually compromised his faith. In 2013, he flip-flopped on gay marriage, saying that he no longer had reservations about it.
“In recent years, our country has been involved in an important discussion on the issue of marriage equality,” he said. “With the recent Supreme Court arguments and accompanying public discussion of same-sex marriage, I have been thinking about my past positions and votes. In doing so, I have concluded that the right thing to do is to support marriage equality for all.”
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