The president of the University of Notre Dame warned on Thursday that “we should never question the sincerity of another’s faith” after former football coach Lou Holtz said this week that the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
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Speaking Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, Holtz said Biden’s presidential card “is the most radical pro-abortion campaign in history.”
“They and other politicians are only Catholics by name and leave innocent lives,” he said. “President Trump
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WATCH: In RNC speech, Lou Holtz insults Joe Biden by suggesting that Biden is a “Catholic name only”.
Biden described his faith as “the basis of my life.” pic.twitter.com/GiGDziWROj
– MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 27, 2020
“While Coach Lou Holtz is a former coach at Notre Dame, his use of the University’s name on the Republican National Convention should not be taken to imply that the University endorses his views, any candidate or any political party, “Notre Dame President John I Jenkins said in a statement on Thursday.
“Moreover, we Catholics must remind ourselves that, although we may judge the objective moral quality of another’s actions, we should never question the sincerity of another’s faith, which is due to the mysterious work of grace in the heart of that person, “Jenkins added. “Let us remember in this terrible time that our highest calling is to love.”
Holtz, who was head coach at Notre Dame from 1986 to 1996, criticized a number of prominent Catholics, including “The View’s” Sunny Hostin
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As a proud Notre Dame graduate and a Catholic, I’m reluctant to ask Lou Holtz @JoeBidenThe Catholic faith in support of a president who is an adulteress, racist and xenophobic. # Shameful
– Sunny Hostin (@sunny) August 27, 2020
Neuke Lou Holtz. Biden is Catholic only in name? Compared to whom? How many abortions did Trump pay for? How many women did he rape? How many times did he pull the shit he did in Ukraine. Wake up. He’s a crook and a man.
– Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
Biden responded to the attacks on his beliefs of the GOP convention, calling them “humiliated.”
The Trump campaign has hammered Biden, a lifelong Catholic, over his stance on abortion. Biden’s platform promises “to protect the constitutional right to an abortion” and “to codify Roe v. Wade.”
Trump, the first incumbent president to personally tackle the annual anti-abortion rally in March for life, has promoted himself as a defender of “unborn children.”
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