Weekly Standard is no standard for theological competency. (The Church and State).THE WEEKLY STANDARD, a right-wing US magazine, revealed its lack of competency in Catholic theology when J. Bottum, the magazine's books & arts editor, claimed that Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). had been instructed by his bishop to stop calling himself a Catholic. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bottum, Bishop Robert Carlson of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, city (1990 pop. 100,814), seat of Minnehaha co., SE S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River; settled 1856, inc. as a village 1877, as a city 1883. Settlers abandoned the site in 1862 because of Native American raids, but with the establishment (1865) of Fort sent Daschle a letter, "directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic church." There was no confirmation that the letter in fact said this, which lead to speculation that Bottum's comments were wishful thinking wishful thinking Psychology Dereitic thought that a thing or event should have a specified outcome on behalf of the Standard rather than action on behalf of the bishop. While both Daschle and Carlson decided that the correspondence was a private matter for the two of them, the Standard's allegations are dubious given that no church law strips Catholics of their "Catholicity." Even excommunication--which is in any case far from routine in either cases of divorce and remarriage Re`mar´riage n. 1. A second or repeated marriage. Noun 1. remarriage - the act of marrying again or for support of legal abortion--does not negate one's Catholic identity. |
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