Tim Kaine
Being pro-choice doesn’t necessarily make Biden a bad Catholic
By Mark Silk — February 27, 2021
(RNS) — But he could do more to make the case.
Blasting lawmakers, USAID official quits over alleged ‘anti-Christian sentiment’
By Jack Jenkins — August 3, 2020
(RNS) — Merritt Corrigan tweeted that she would not be ‘bullied into submission by radical anti-Christian leftists like Cory Booker.’
Dorothy Day defied definition. Now the potential saint is the subject of a new film.
By Yonat Shimron — March 4, 2020
(RNS) — The former journalist who founded the Catholic Worker movement was a committed Catholic who gave her life to the cause of the poor, yet also disdained government assistance.
Philadelphia Archbishop Chaput welcomes ‘smaller church’ of holier Catholics
By David Gibson — October 20, 2016
(RNS) The stark prognosis is part of a debate on whether Catholicism should be exclusive or inclusive, but Chaput also used this week's speech to slam Catholic Democrats like Joe Biden and Tim Kaine.
Kelly Ayotte, free condoms — and a budding Catholic question?
By David Gibson — October 5, 2016
(RNS) The Republican senator from New Hampshire is locked in a tough re-election battle. Could her campaign gimmick to distribute free condoms to college students prompt any Catholic backlash?
With Kaine and Pence, religion finally takes center stage in Election 2016
By Lauren Markoe — October 5, 2016
(RNS) A question on religion brings candidates to the nexus of faith and public policy.
Kaine testifies to a religious struggle, Pence declines to
By Mark Silk — October 5, 2016
(RNS) If only Pence had opened up about Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Tim Kaine mangles the Bible to score a political point
By Trevin Wax — September 19, 2016
(RNS) Kaine’s all-encompassing ‘celebration’ of the diversity of the human family leaves him without any principle by which he can criticize any kind of family arrangement at all.
Kaine, Trump address faithful of different stripes
By Adelle M. Banks — August 11, 2016
(RNS) In a speech focused on faith and his fights for civil rights, the Virginia senator made a point of differentiating himself from the Republican nominee for president.
On abortion, Tim Kaine is a bridge to Hillary Clinton’s past
By Trevin Wax — August 8, 2016
(RNS) On abortion, Hillary Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine, have flown to different wings within the “pro-choice” camp.
The word of the week in Philadelphia: Love
By guest — July 29, 2016
(RNS) “Love” has been taboo in Democratic Party politics for so long. But it's back. Big time.
Can Clinton-Kaine bring Catholic voters back to the Democrats?
By David Gibson — July 28, 2016
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) Catholics are a swing vote and a big enough chunk of the electorate that they can pick the winner. “There is no Catholic vote -- and it’s important,” said the Catholic pundit E.J. Dionne.
The divided soul of the Democratic Party
By David Gibson — July 28, 2016
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) Faith is more evident – and accepted – at the party’s grass roots than in the treetops where power brokers call the shots. Did Wednesday night’s God-inflected speeches signal a change?
Great quote, Tim Kaine, but John Wesley never said that
By David Gibson — July 25, 2016
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) The Democratic vice presidential candidate cited a famous saying by the Methodist luminary to show his Catholic affinity with Hillary Clinton. Too bad the quote's a myth.
Tim Kaine’s Jesuit spirituality just might appeal to ‘nones’
By Elizabeth Drescher — July 25, 2016
(RNS) In choosing Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton has shifted the religious narrative of the election away from the false equation of “religion” and “Christianity” with radical, conservative, evangelicalism.
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