Sarah Palin and the Catholic question
Time’s Jay Newton Small interviewed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin by phone on Aug. 14, less than two weeks before her surprise selection as John McCain’s running mate.
What’s your religion?
Christian.
Any particular…?
No. Bible-believing Christian.
What church do you attend?
A non-denominational Bible church. I was baptized Catholic as a newborn and then my family started going to non-denominational churches throughout our life.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1837536-3,00.html
Palin was raised Assemblies of God (largest Pentecostal denomination in America) and still attends an AoG church when she is in Juneau, but her home church, Church on the Rock, in Wasilla is evangelical nondenominational:
http://churchontherockak.org/index.html
H/T to Kevin at InsightScoop comments
Almost all Catholics call themselves Catholics, regardless of whether they are obedient to Catholic teaching, including Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, because they were baptized as Catholics. Then an argument could be made that Sarah Palin is as much a Catholic as they are.
As far as I know, she has never renounced the Church in a formal manner and therefore could return to the Church for Confirmation.
So we have two VP candidates who are technically Catholic…one is a so-called practicing Catholic who is disobedient to fundamental Church teaching on abortion, experimentation of embryonic human beings and on same-sex unions and a non-denominational Christian who, in many respects, is closer to Catholic teaching than Mr. Biden.
Interesting…..
