# How Uncatholic is Santorum? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 29, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101 "2012-03-29T00:54:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101/21 "2012-04-15T20:59:01Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I think he _is_ a Protestant, actually. Maybe Irish Catholic. But I grew up around evangelicals, and Santorum sure seems to want to be seen as one of them. “Irish Catholic” is not a religion. Catholics in Ireland are Roman Catholics who happen to be ethnic Irish. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101/22 "2012-04-17T05:37:11Z")
Irish Catholics in the USA are an ethnicity. And in any case, I was talking about his religious attitudes. Irish Catholics are stereotypically more “Puritan” in outlook than other Catholics. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101/23 "2012-04-17T13:24:48Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Irish Catholics in the USA are an ethnicity. I’m sure they like to think they are. > [@](#): > > And in any case, I was talking about his religious attitudes. Irish Catholics are stereotypically more “Puritan” in outlook than other Catholics. And blacks are stereotypically lazy. Doesn’t make either one of those statements true. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101/24 "2012-04-17T13:53:43Z")
Santorum is very, very unCatholic, given that it’s the result of ejaculation into the anus, which is forbidden by the Church (to both same-sex and mixed-sex couples…it isn’t “open to conception”). ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101/25 "2012-04-17T18:56:03Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > Since I no little of what Catholics believe I don’t know if he’s a good Catholic or not, but he isn’t any sort of Christian. > > His whole religious outlook seems to be based on the angriest parts of the old testament while completely ignoring the teachings of Christ. > > If you really want a label for him psychopath fits quite well. [Leviticans](http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/002675.html)works well, too. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101/26 "2012-04-17T20:20:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Irish Catholics in the USA are an ethnicity. Irish is an ethnicity, and Catholic is a religion. Saying that someone is Irish Catholic is just stating their ethnicity and religion together. If both of your parents are Irish Catholic and you convert to Episcopalianism, then you’re not an Irish Catholic any more (though you are still Irish). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-uncatholic-is-santorum/617101.md?page=1)