Uh, Craddock is not a Catholic. He's the youth minister at a fundamentalist church called King's Chapel in Fairfax -- where his father-in-law is the pastor. I went to their website -- it has a nice cheery statement that if you don't believe in everything they do you are condemned to damnation. King's Chapel is not affiliated with any big church -- basically it's a church that wants to be more conservative than even the most conservative Presbyterian church.
Here's what the Post said today about the dear boy:
"District 67: If there were a prize for worst candidate of the season, Chris S. Craddock (R) would be a strong contender. In the race for this seat, Mr. Craddock -- who's managed to rack up at least nine traffic tickets since 2001, including one for reckless driving a few weeks ago -- used a 14-year-old endorsement by a gay newspaper to smear his primary opponent, incumbent Del. Gary A. Reese. Mr. Craddock, a 27-year-old youth minister who hates taxes, and has attributed AIDS in Africa to those who seek sex "with anything with a pulse" -- and that may not be his dumbest or most offensive pronouncement. We hope his main opponent, C. Chuck Caputo (D), wins, if only to spare voters more of Mr. Craddock's callow inanity."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401694_2.html