Cardinal Wilton Gregory: On Life Issues, Biden Chooses to Ignore or Uses the Situation as a Political Pawn

GREGORY: “I would say that he’s very sincere about his faith, but like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts. There is a phrase that we have used in the past, a cafeteria Catholic, you choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging.”
BUDDE: “Or, as Thomas Aquinas would say, you allow your conscience to guide you.”
O’KEEFE: “Is there something on the menu he’s not ordering, in your view, so to speak?”
GREGORY: “Well, I would say there are things, especially in terms of the life issues, there are things that he chooses to ignore or he uses the current situation as a political pawn rather than saying, look, my church believes this.”
BUDDE: “It’s also possible to be a practitioner of the faith as a public leader and not require everyone that you lead in your country to be guided by all of the precepts of your faith, right?”
Ed O’Keefe: “And in my coverage of him, it seems that is what he believes.”
BUDDE: “That’s what I would interpret.”