According to Joe Feuerherd, of National Catholic Reporter, “Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had more to do with electing George W. Bush to a second term than any number of party activists and operatives who worked full-time on the task.” Why? Since the Cardinal affirmed the teaching of the Church instructing Bishops not to give communion to any person in obstinate persistence of manifest grave sin, this gave American Catholics little choice but vote for Bush and not the obstinate Kerry. Of course Feuerherd fails to recognize that even in American politics there are many more choices than the binomial option offered … Continue reading Current Pope blamed for Bush Reelection