My column this week will only be available on my website....
You would never know Sean Hannity is a pro-life Catholic by his interview March 9 with Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International.
Euteneuer is a highly respected leader in the pro-life movement and a priest. He appeared on Fox's Hannity and Colmes by invitation to challenge Hannity on his unorthodox support of contraception. Euteneuer said he previously wrote Hannity in 2004 an unanswered request to meet.
Euteneuer was prompted to publicly denounce Hannity's departure from Catholic (and sola scriptura as well, I believe) teaching after listening to Hannity's March 2 radio show when Hannity glibly apologized for accidentally eating meat on a Lenten Friday.
Euteneuer responded in a newsletter...
If apologies are the order of the day, then the repentance I would like to hear out of Sean Hannity's mouth is for his shameless - even scandalous - promotion of birth control. Yes, I have heard him personally say, "I have no problem with birth control. It's a good thing." (Another bit of profound theological reasoning.)....
The moral of the story is that Catholic men and women in the media need to be truly Catholic or at least stop being hypocrites.
... which is what prompted the call to appear on Hannity and Colmes.
If you haven't watched the video, you should.
I was appalled not just by the disrespect Hannity showed Euteneuer but also by the same cheap shots he dispensed toward Catholic leaders as would a liberal. After all that, Hannity bizarrely challenged Euteneuer to a credentials duel.
Hannity began by invoking, "Judge not lest you be judged," certainly the best known and most abused verse in the Bible, solely flaunted by those being called to account. Any year now I expect "Matthew 7:1" signs to replace "John 3:16" signs behind football goalposts....
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