On Sunday's This Week, ABC's George Stephanopoulos harangued Washington's Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the left. In an interviewed taped on Saturday, Stephanopoulos told McCarrick that "the practices and opinions of American Catholics seem to be at odds with the teachings of the church." Stephanopoulos soon chided McCarrick for how during the campaign the Eucharist became "a partisan battleground" because a Cardinal "did express his view that any Catholic who votes for a pro-choice politician is committing a sin that he or she has to confess." McCarrick corrected his false charge, but Stephanopoulos remained undeterred as he pressed McCarrick to "respond to those Democrats who feel that the bishops have been more partisan than principled" and lamented how while "so much has been made of the Pope's anti-communism," the Pope "has had a very forceful critique of the excesses of capitalism, and it hasn't seemed to have taken hold in the same way."
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