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‘Santorum is not, in fact, all that Catholic’

By Timothy P. Carney

Published March 22, 2012 4:00am ET

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‘Santorum is not, in fact, all that Catholic’ — Washington Post religion columnist Lisa Miller doesn’t really like the Catholic Church or its teachings, which she has called “prehistoric.” But she really dislikes Rick Santorum more (see “smug fecundity“), and so she takes a column today to roll out the tired argument liberal Catholics have been making forever, that Santorum’s GOP-aligned political positions make […]

Washington Post religion columnist Lisa Miller doesn’t really like the Catholic Church or its teachings, which she has called “prehistoric.”

But she really dislikes Rick Santorum more (see “smug fecundity“), and so she takes a column today to roll out the tired argument liberal Catholics have been making forever, that Santorum’s GOP-aligned political positions make him a “cafeteria Catholic.”

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