The Pillar hits the nail on the head...
Kaine’s presentation of sacramental theology and Eucharistic worthiness is, as perhaps one would expect from a career politician with a vested interest to defend, neither especially accurate nor well informed.
His reasoning is, more or less explicitly, derived from a reading of some of the words of the Eucharistic liturgy through the lens of a sixth grader’s sacramental formation, which, to be fair, may be all he has to work with.
His argument boils down to the conclusion that everyone is a sinner, including bishops and priests, and, therefore, singling any one class of sinner (obstinate and manifest grave sinners, for example, though he doesn’t use those terms) “would be much more political act than expression of faith.”
...but really his entire generation has only a 6th grade understanding of the faith. My generation has only a 2nd grade understanding of the faith.
This is what catechists have been working with this whole time: generations of people that never advanced into adulthood who are now raising children.
A nation of adolescent 6th graders.
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