Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine engaged in classic Trojan Horse warfare and spin yesterday “about what Hillary [Clinton] thinks about Catholics.”

Kaine was asked about the anger which faithful Catholics (perhaps most prominently Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput) have expressed about insults aimed at their faith in 2012 by Hillary’s current communications director. That comment was part of a Wikileaks-revealed e-mail thread where Clinton’s campaign chairman*, Catholic John Podesta, boasted of aiding an effort by leftist Democrats to actively subvert the “middle ages dictatorship” that is the Catholic Church.

Pressed by NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, Kaine — who has flip-flopped on Catholic issues, and now supports legalized abortion, changing the definition of marriage and the ordination of women — said it was his time as a missionary “and my Jesuit education” that most impressed Clinton when she was seeking a running mate.

 CHUCK TODD:

I’m curious if as a Catholic, you were offended by one of the WikiLeaks that came out of, it was an email exchange that included the campaign spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri, one person wrote that — referring to Rupert Murdoch, for instance, that they are both Catholic, that they are attracted to the faith because of the quote, “systemic thought and severely backward gender relations.”

And then Jennifer Palmieri reportedly weighs in, “I imagine they think it is the most socially-acceptable, politically-conservative religion, their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.” Did that bother you as a Catholic, Senator?

SEN. TIM KAINE:

Well, you know, first, I don’t know whether, you know, those folks wrote those emails or not, so I really can’t comment on the attribution of them.

CHUCK TODD:

But a lot of Catholic-Americans have heard that. And some of them are offended by it. What do you say to them?

SEN. TIM KAINE:

Here’s what I say to them. Hillary Clinton’s feeling about faith and about Catholicism in particular is most demonstrated by the fact that she asked me to be a running mate. And she described one of the reasons that she felt a connection with me was because of my own faith background, my missionary service in Honduras, and my Jesuit education, which she felt was a pretty close match in some ways for her Methodist upbringing. That is the most direct evidence about what Hillary thinks about Catholics.

It’s possible that Clinton picked Kaine in part because of his liberal religious background. But given Kaine’s shameful public abandonment of life and marriage, and Clinton’s declaration to the United Nations that “deep seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases” against abortion “have to be changed,” it’s far more likely her goal was to insert Kaine as a Trojan Horse against orthodox Catholicism.

Indeed, the Catholic Church has led the charge for the unborn for much of the 43 years of the pro-life movement. When it comes to marriage, Catholics and evangelicals have frequently stood arm-in-arm against redefining basic sexuality in schools, churches, and elsewhere. And one of every six hospital beds in the US are Catholic.

Yet Kaine has no problem undermining it all, arguing in the vice presidential debate that women should be trusted when killing their children. Clearly, Clinton only respects a certain kind of Catholic: one who stands for tribal loyalty over truth, and for Pharisaical gain above competing well in the race for God.

Kaine might not have been a founding member of the subversion of the U.S. Catholic Church when Podesta and others set out on this path a decade ago, but he’s certainly part of the team now. And too many Catholics are accepting him as a public face for the faith unaware he’s a Trojan Horse sent to destroy it.

*This piece originally misidentified John Podesta as the Clinton campaign’s manager. He is chairman of the campaign.