Thomas Peters shows how Doug Kmiec misreads a Vatican press release in the misguided hope that Pope Benedict was wrong to lend a strong dose of pastoral guidance to Nancy Pelosi the other day.
We already knew that moral accountability wasn't a strong suit for Professor Kmiec, but it's increasingly clear that he feels the strain of trying to find "Catholic cover" for abortion rights extremism, not least because there ain't no such animal.
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Kmiec is standing the argument about a religious test for office on its head. The test described the Constitution was one that forbade the candidacy or holding of office by members of a certain religion(s) by law. The Pope's argument is that Catholic politicians and jurists have a responsibility to uphold moral law and seek to bring that morality to where it might be absent in the public square.
As a man who saw the Germany of the 1930s/40s up close, Pope Benedict is essentially making the Nuremburg argument: you cannot absolve your conscience by simply going along with immoral law and being an administrator.
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