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A Papal Moment
Our devout Catholic President, Joe Biden, once again confirmed how clueless he is about his Catholic Faith. In a recent Q&A, an EWTN reporter confronted old Joe by saying that the Catholic Bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortion. And our President responds by saying no they are not all doing that, nor is the Pope doing that.
Mr Biden can’t be allowed to twist the words of Pope Francis in this way. I implore the Vatican press office to emphatically clarify that Pope Francis rightly calls abortion murder. It is time to denounce Biden’s fake Catholicism. https://t.co/RBEbWmczsl
— Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) January 31, 2023
The Bishop of Tyler, TX, Joseph Strickland, (my Bishop thanks be to God) is the only one to publicly call out Joe Biden. It is right and just for him to do this.
As should Pope Francis, Archbishop Gregory of Washington D.C., and William Koenig, Bishop of Wilmington, DE. But I won’t hold my breath. I pray I am wrong.
Abortion is the deliberate taking of life. It is a mortal sin. And our Catholic President constantly pushes for it. He wants us to fund it and he wants to make it legal. And most bishops stay silent. Scandalous.
I would love to hear from Pope Francis on this.
Prior to hitting publish, I just saw this from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB):
President of U.S. Bishops Conference on Bishops’ United Position Against the Evil of Abortion | Full Statement by Most Rev. Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of USCCB here: https://t.co/84QipfmBBv
— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) February 1, 2023
Good for them, but the conference holds no juridical power. We Catholics need to see something from his bishop or the Pope.
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The USCCB message:
Earlier this week, President Biden responded to a reporter’s question about the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion: REPORTER: “Catholic bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortions.” BIDEN: “No they are not all doing that. Nor is the Pope doing that.”
Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, released the following statement:
“As we are taught by Jesus, human life is sacred. God calls us to defend and nurture life from the moment a new human being is conceived. The Catholic Church has been clear and consistent in this teaching. The Catholic bishops of the United States are united in our commitment to life and will continue to work as one body in Christ to make abortion unthinkable. As the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has said, ‘It is not right to ‘do away with’ a human being, however small, in order to solve a problem. It is like hiring a hitman.’ Taxpayer funding of abortion would force people of good conscience to participate in this grave evil against their will. It would contradict our right to live in accord with the tenets of our faith. Our nation is better than that. I pray that we will protect every child no matter his or her age, and open our hearts to respond to mothers in need with love and support rather than the violence of abortion.”
Published in Religion & Philosophy
This is the personal and social benefit of “Catholic guilt.” “Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.” To believe your good intentions count more than the good you do through your behaviors (“you will know them by their fruits”) is a mortal hazard. It doesn’t matter if you mean well if the fruits of your behavior are rotten.
As Luke put it,
Politics is often about self-exultation. Christianity has mechanisms to mitigate self-exultation but modern leftists have not developed such mechanisms.
Just so.