Anyone who was expecting Pope “abortion is murder” Francis to criticize Joe “abortion is health care” Biden was either naïve, or sorely disappointed this week when the two most powerful living Catholics met at the Vatican.
According to Biden, the pope told him he was happy that our president was a “good Catholic” and that he had his permission to keep receiving Communion. Of course, there were no cameras, so it could just be Joe doing that plagiarism thing he’s perfected.
Personally, however, I don’t doubt that Pontiff told POTUS that he could continue doing what he had every intention of doing anyway, shoving his unrepentant pro-abortion politics in the face of practicing anti-abortion Catholics. Despite the opposition of American bishops and many conservative faithful like myself who are deeply troubled by this façade of piety, Biden and his many supporters (a large portion of which calls itself Catholic) think his advocacy for abortion rights should be brushed off like some annoying flake of dandruff on the wings of St. Michael.
Given his public comments, I believe that the pope was willing to forgive this lost sheep from Wilmington. I know I’m not going to change hearts, minds and eternal souls with my words. That’s not my intention, nor is it within my power to tell someone how to approach their relationship with God and their conception of morality.
But silence is not an option when it comes to the hypocrisy of people who regularly attack others as immoral, and we’ve seen how both of the two most powerful Catholics have done that. Francis talked about the evil of “building walls,” a distinct dig at Trump, while Biden has gone after everyone, including and most especially Republicans who stand in the way of his agenda.
I cannot do is sit idly by while the leader of my faith and the leader of my country live out this elderly bromance for the world to see without expressing how depressed, how disrespected and how very, very angry it makes me.
Among all faiths, Catholicism has been the most vocal in its opposition to the destruction of human life in utero. It has also been outspoken against the death penalty, fiercely supportive of immigrants and refugees, cognizant of our stewardship of the earth and concerned with the welfare of the disabled and the dispossessed. As Cardinal Joseph Bernardin described it in terms more poetic than any bible verse, it is all about the “seamless garment of life.”
So when two extremely high profile members of that faith seem to excuse the ripping and tearing and destruction of that radiant garment at the hem, at the beginning where life takes hold and becomes manifest in the fertilized embryo, I have a big problem with the messaging.
Women like the acolytes of Planned Parenthood can get out there with their “I’m Glad I had An Abortion” T- shirts and parade their obscene pride in this barbarity on social media, and I just wince and scroll by. People like Nancy Pelosi can act like theologians and talk about how abortion is actually permitted by the church, and I just laugh and excuse the octogenarian’s little mental blip. But if the pope doesn’t draw the line in the sand when that “good Catholic” deliberately flouts a core principle of our faith, I don’t know why I should obey any of the rules myself.
What does it even mean to be a Catholic anymore?
Don’t answer, I think I already know. We apparently get to write our own rules now because “Who is he to judge?”
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Christine Flowers is an attorney and a columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times, and can be reached at [email protected].
A gay friend of mine dies and his significant other had a catholic priest preside over his funeral. There was no way of missing that the significant other was so gay that his picture is in the dictionary under gay. But a Catholic funeral went on any way.
I don’t get it. never did.
The very word Catholic translates as “Universal” but how does any Catholic pope change 2000 years of universal truths from generation to generation to serve his political means? It is said never to mix politics and religion, and Joe thinks he can mix both and come out smelling like a rose. Each person in his gift of free will gets to choose which team in life he will play on. It’s either Live in the image of your CREATOR or reflect the image of the great CONSUMER. Team Creation who gives out of his abundance or Team Consumption who takes out of his lack of integrity. Vote in the latter and you get consumed just like what WE THE PEOPLE have all experienced for the past 9 months. Give them total control of all branches of government and their consumption of all American things good and clean accelerates like a Brandon with his petal to the metal.
I was shocked he was even ALLOWED a funeral..
Only in a Democrat designed program can the words “family Planning” end up destroying the very family it is supposed to be planning for. But the Doublespeak Democrats always deliver the opposite of what they promise and propose so is anyone surprised? The cash the Democrats get back in campaign donations from their “Family Planning” sale of fetal body parts would make Dr. Frankenstein richer and more successful in the use of dead bodies for profit than Dr. Fauci.
If Joe and the Pope are such good Catholics then so is the snake in the Garden of Eden who offered up an apple in their garden communion who told Adam and Eve after their social communion, they would be so good they would be as God. God knew us in our mother’s womb. Socialist gods know us by how they use us for profit in our fetal wounds. He who is with them is against American innocence, and just another social manipulator in the condoning of a common social guilt, used as a means to the evil ends of social conquest where God is no longer in control, but fallible politicians and priests who seek to win the world, but end up losing their souls.
That is why for years, i’ve been saying that PP, needs to be FORCED TO HAVE A NAME change to Planned MURDERHOOD!
The pope is just a man and like humankind can be mistaken in his beliefs. He will answer for electing to embrace queerism, abortion and all the other sins that are an abomination to God. Those that lead others to the doors of hell under the premise of good, will answer heavily on judgement day.
Welcome to the new woke religion.
Judging from Pelosi and Biden—it is an avenue to try to manipulate God and deceive all other human beings.
#6 of the 10 Commandments of GOD – “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
Keep in mind that religions are man made. No religion will get you to heaven and in the presents of GOD.
Only One’s relationship with GOD will get you in heaven.
If a particular religions helps someone to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and develops a relationship with GOD, that is great.
But if they don’t teach and follow the word of GOD then it is not a Church of GOD.
But there are so many religions that are just demonic cults and man made businesses.
Matthew 7:15-16
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them.