My latest in PJ Media:
The establishment media has been pulling out all the stops, as Stephen Kruiser noted Monday, to convince us that Joe Biden is the most serene Catholic monarch since King St. Louis IX. Huffington Post writer Beth Stoneburner even wondered if “Christians will ever allow themselves to admit that a Democratic president is actually doing more for their supposed causes than the Republican Party ever did.” The New York Times hailed Old Joe as “the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century,” who “regularly attends Mass and speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his policies.” However, a wrench was thrown into this propaganda machine on Friday by the unlikeliest of sources: the U.S. Catholic bishops.Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop David J. Malloy, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued a statement on Thursday saying that Biden’s executive order removing blocks on funding for abortion providers overseas was “incompatible with Catholic teaching.”
Heinously indifferent to their contravention of the prevailing propaganda, Naumann and Malloy wrote: “It is grievous that one of President Biden’s first official acts actively promotes the destruction of human lives in developing nations. This Executive Order is antithetical to reason, violates human dignity, and is incompatible with Catholic teaching. We and our brother bishops strongly oppose this action. We urge the President to use his office for good, prioritizing the most vulnerable, including unborn children.”
Even before that, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote on Inauguration Day: “Rather than impose further expansions of abortion and contraception, as he has promised, I am hopeful that the new President and his administration will work with the Church and others of good will. My hope is that we can begin a dialogue to address the complicated cultural and economic factors that are driving abortion and discouraging families. My hope, too, is that we can work together to finally put in place a coherent family policy in this country, one that acknowledges the crucial importance of strong marriages and parenting to the well-being of children and the stability of communities. If the President, with full respect for the Church’s religious freedom, were to engage in this conversation, it would go a long way toward restoring the civil balance and healing our country’s needs.”
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Bikinis not Burkas says
Aren’t condoms less disruptive for a woman than having your insides mutilated?
Michael,B,Budinger says
correct, since the sixties because they said they could not trust men, they have been given many forms of contraception. But its proven that its the women who cant be trusted to use them, and when pregnancy becomes inconvenient hey use abortion as a right now..
Many years ago as a divorced man, I always carried condoms, but use to get (I am clean ,and there’s no other reason to wear one ) There are only two reasons for wearing a condom, 1/ stop disease 2/ prevent pregnancy. I never told them I had the snip, did not stop one asking me to stand by her. Still single women in the UK, with kids, get an income with out working for it, at he taxpayers expense.
MANY WILL NOT LIKE THIS,THE TRUTH HURTS SOME TIMES. BUT THESE ARE FACTS.
Michael Copeland says
In the UK a “single mum” was included in a television programme. She showed the camera her flat, the furnishings and baby materials that had been provided, but commented, “The pay’s rubbish”.
Michael,B,Budinger says
Hes not following the Catholic faith. hence his nick name Jihadi Joe, not forgetting we now have a Jihadi Pope.
mortimer says
When Roman Catholics LIVE IN SIN without repentance, they are not eligible to receive any sacraments. To work to extend abortion to be full term, rather than working to restrict it to a few weeks, is for a politician to ‘live in sin’. Biden is thus ipso facto unrepentant and the bishops have a duty to admonish him and threaten him with ex-communication.
mortimer says
Biden and other disobedient Roman Catholics in government are making up their own church doctrines to suit them. The RCC has a Magisterium that makes the rules. You take it or leave.
They want to have their cake and eat it. The council of bishops are trying to use reason, but they will not listen until excommunications are imposed.
b.a. freeman says
mortimer, i don’t think that old uncle joe will change his tune if he get excommunicated; the power he enjoys (assuming that he doesn’t have dementia) is too intoxicating to give up for a church thing.
Grace says
Marxism, Communism Socialism and BLM are not compatible with the ‘family’ Faucci is with Biden on abortion, Bill Gates is a geneticist and worships Margret Sanger. Population control is their agenda. China controlled their population when the wanted to raise an army. All girls were aborted for a number of years. Then china found itself importing brides because there weren’t enough women for the young males to marry. But China does have a monstrous army so I guess population control works if you want to raise an army or labor force. Biden is going to have to choose? Perhaps, money talks.
Brenda says
Joe Biden is not Catholic or Christian at all. He went to church and, the following day, gave state approval to all abortions that take place in American territory.
In the Catholic Church there is the Code of Canon Law and it is written that whoever apostatized the Catholic faith or who helped abortion in some way is automatically excommunicated, no bishop or pope needs to recognize that he is excommunicated.
Gail Morris says
My mom could no longer have communion because she married a non catholic, yet this man is considered a good Catholic…sickening!
Brenda says
Biden is simply not Catholic. He hates Christ.
mortimer says
Biden doesn’t take the commandments seriously. ‘Thou shalt not kill’ (abort viable babies) and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ (take money through coercion from foreign governments) are MEANINGLESS words to Biden and kleptocrat crime family.
Colleen says
Gail, that just cannot be correct! As long as she was married in the church and lives as a Catholic, she is able to read receive zHoly Communion.
Though I live in Australia, the Rule is the same!
My mother and many others married non Catholics and still lived their Catholic Faith.
I married a Buddhist from Singapore over 50, years ago
, with the active help of my husband, we educated and brought up four catholic children…….. I think you will need to look anew at your mothers situation.
Peace.
gravenimage says
Colleen, this is still official Church policy *now*:
“Church teaching holds that unless divorced Catholics receive an annulment — or a church decree that their first marriage was invalid — they are committing adultery and cannot receive Communion.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/vatican-newspaper-communion-guide-remarried-catholics-article-1.2946142
However, I know it is not observed in many places–particularly by most priests in the United States.
John C Massam says
Abortion, and contraception, are not forbidden in my New Testament. And, clergy marriage is commanded in the epistles to Timothy and Titus. In the Old Testament, Yehovah is quoted as saying that it is not good for the man to be alone, so He would make him a help suitable for him. Instead of worrying about President Joe Biden’s ideas about abortion, Catholics, and some other Christians, ought to be looking at their teachings.
Mauricio says
Yeshua and Paul recommend in “your” New Testament celibacy for people who is able to endure it.
” Alone” in Genesis could mean literally alone, since there were no other humans beside Adam. Current clerics are not exactly alone, since they usually are surrounded by communities.
Abortion is forbidden by the sixth commandment and is specifically forbidden as early as the first century in an apostolic Christian document.
Maybe you are the one who need to look at your own beliefs.
Brenda says
The Catholic Church is rotten, the whole hierarchy has betrayed Christ. It was the Catholic Church that has always fought Islam in Western history and now all they do is surrender to the enemy.
John says
Let’s pray the next pope is Callixtius IV.?
Brenda says
The USCC is just a left-wing political organization, there are no Christians there.
Grace says
The Jesuits are the liberals of the Catholic church. They were also the judges in the Inquisition. They are very rich and, unfortunately, teaching our children in Catholic Universities.
Ecosse1314 says
I believe that was the Dominicans. At least originally.
Emilie Green says
“I am hopeful that the new President and his administration will work with the Church and others of good will.”
Psst, Padre, it ain’t gonna happen.
Brenda says
This is all a theater. Biden is pro-abortion, in favor of LGBT idology.
mortimer says
Biden promotes the destruction of the unborn and promotes the destruction of the Christian family.
b.a. freeman says
agree completely, mortimer; *all* of the hard-core left wants to destroy the family. the family is how many western attitudes are passed down from one generation to another, and at least since the 1920s, the left has targeted the family because of that. early childhood “education” is one way to allow the state to take over the raising of the child; the institutions doing that job might be mostly private now, but it only takes one law to nationalize them all. and they don’t even have to nationalize early childhood “education;” they can enforce policies like they do with regular indoctrination centers. they can hand out national money, then withhold that money from non-compliant “schools.”
Kepha says
I wonder if Joe Biden cares a fig for what Christ has done for us in his incarnation, active obedience, suffering the death of the cross on our behalf, resurrection on the third day, and ascencion? He seems like a couple of devout Catholic ladies I knew whose working religion was the Democratic Party LIne, including a very ingenious and puzzling interpretation of Humanae Vitae (those who’ve read it will understand–it was clear enough to this Protestant).
My guess is that these MSM writers think that “compassion” means letting a woman and her doctor destroy a third life; letting one’s lusts get fecal residue into someone’s bloodstream,and indulging riots that destroy people’s sweat equity.
mortimer says
‘Thou shalt not kill’ … a commandment written ‘by the finger of God’.
jca reid says
Just a few weeks into Sleepy Joe’s Presidency & the hypocrisy is already showing. Anyhow, just 3 years,10 months & a few days to go. Will the USA be voting for VP Harris to continue? wonder if “the Fix” will work this time.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden must be Roman Catholic by title only because of his policies and policies . As in abortion and his rejection of Wisdom of Jesus with his being in favor of dividing Israel in half in the folly of a “two state solution.” For Jesus taught “A House divided shall not stand “Mark 3:25. Biden must feel that the Abbas is wiser than Jesus.
In addition , not intending to get too far off the main theme of this subject, nevertheless it still should be known that Biden had in the past declared that important issues must be decided by popular consensus.
Now in the Oval Office Biden signed 46 Executive orders in only 12 days in power. What a disingenuous terrible man President imposter Biden really is.
To make matters even worse many of his Executive order are awful BIden EO put many Americans out of work, deserted the farmers and put America ,again ,on dependence of foreign oil for energy
Walter Sieruk says
I forgot to mention that in the past Biden said any American President who does not go by popular consensus “Is a dictator.”
mortimer says
Good quote, Walter, showing Biden’s deep hypocrisy and lack of sincerity.
Orville P Phisnarous says
Joe Biden couldn’t find a Catholic church with GPS. There are Bishops who have stated Joe Biden is a fake Catholic & for him to unblock funding to abortion clinics is anti-Catholic ideology. Biden should visit an abortion clinic & watch a doctor literally ‘suck’ a baby from the womb. Crushed skulls, arms, legs, organs and of course the ‘side’ profit from harvesting and selling body parts. This guy is a shallow, empty man who is obeying the left & those who actually want babies aborted. Sleep well Joe.
andrew mckendrick says
He found one about a year ago ,but the priest , Fr Moray refused him communion.
gravenimage says
The Media’s Oh-So-Devout Catholic Joe Biden Has Run Into a Little Trouble With the Bishops…
…………..
He’s a hypocrite.
Phil Copson says
Never forget that Pelosi assures us that she “prays for Donald Trump every night….” LOL
(Well, maybe if the definition of prayer includes wax figures and pins, she does…..)
GreekEmpress says
+1 Mr. Copson
Pelosi also bashed Catholics who voted for pro-life President Trump,
saying they were selling out Democracy on the basis of one issue. She was called out by the Archbishop of San Francisco.
(About time imho)
Wellington says
Query: Which does Biden know less about? Islamic theology or Roman Catholic theology?
Close call, eh?
mortimer says
Agree, well expressed. But Biden claimed he is an expert on theology. And he also claimed to have had a full scholarship in law school and graduate at the top of his class. (All lies.) Has Biden ever told the truth? Or is Biden like the stopped clock that is accurate twice daily?
47G2 Pilot says
By his actions and policies Biden is saying. I rented an office, I purchased all the medical instruments,I hired the staff and advertised the service. But I didn’t do the abortions myself so I am still a good and faithful Catholic.
James Lincoln says
47G2,
That about sizes it up.
By the way, I think that a Bell 47G was used by Chuck and P.T. on the old TV show “The Whirlybirds”…
mortimer says
Matthew 18.6 ““But whoso shall offend one of these LITTLE ONES which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
mortimer says
Biden seems to lack a moral compass. His actions contradict the church’s clear teachings on a number of topics. Biden says one thing and does another.
Biden is a chameleon.
John Butler says
No doubt out Uber Catholic Pope will move fast to excommunicate the wicked fraud, Biden.
Billy Corr says
The Papist clergy ought to concentrate on the sexual molestation of children rather than yapping about serious issues which only grownups really understand.
gravenimage says
Certainly, child abuse is a serious issue. So is abortion. Billy, your claim that Catholic clergy have no right to comment on the issue of abortion is very odd.
Westman says
One could think of government funded abortion as racism. For example, the US black population was once 18% of the US population and now it is around 13%. What role did “Planned” Parenthood and government money play in this decline?
Could one actually detect a difference in outcome whether the motive was to eliminate a population or the motive was to save people from the impoverishing results of their actions? Could support for government funded abortion be both?
mortimer says
Good analysis from Westman: (black population reduction through abortion). That was one of the plans of the founder of Planned Parenthood … to reduce black population, although she denied it to avoid bad press … that plan is working.
curious george says
Westman & mortimer
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Black Pastor speaks truth to the issue of abortion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHioK3Ljz0
Simon says
BTW please let’s not be too hasty in thinking of holding up the RCC as some paragon of religious virtue. This was the same church that only relatively recently had in its iron ideological grip parts of and some countries in the West…..and if you go far enough back most of western europe….much in the same way Islam has still today in it’s own countries….and now some parts of the west!
The RCC may condemn abortion in the most the most emphatic terms but did and still does its level best to defend its operatives from being prosecuted over some of the most heinous child abuse crimes perpetrated by any organisation.
Yes Biden is a true hypocrite….but his RCC is no longer a bastion against foreign religious influence as evidenced by the present Popes appealing appeasement of Islam and its adherents.
No Muzzies Here says
Joe uses his affiliation with the Catholic church when it’s advantageous to his political career. When Catholic beliefs get in the way of his rise to the top, he abandons them.
Richard Hawkins says
Abortion is only the tip of the anti Christian, cultural Marxist Biden/Harris agenda.
Billy Chickens says
To USCCB – Well, DUH, you fraudulent never Trumpers. You didn’t think for one moment that Biden would do otherwise, you bunch of leftist Marxists. Either you are as naïve as a new born babe – in which case you should not be a bishop – or else you are also a Marxist – in which case you should not be a bishop.
Elaine says
As usual, JESUS says it best: Matthew 23:28
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
curious george says
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spiro says
The whole Biden clan is what ever they need to be to get what they want
Traitors even to themselves
Ed of Ct. Usa says
Bishops in Ct- Loudly From the pulpit last Weekend Restated Prolife Principals from CONCEPTION until Old age Natural Death. Priest afterwards of the reading of the Bishops Letter in Ct .-Loudly Denounced so Called (Biden etc. ) Cinos who profess the Rc. faith yet as fake Catholics promote Abortion- Euthanasia etc. in the USA. A welcomed though Rare Declaration from the Largely Silent Ct. USA and Usccb Bishops here. Hooray for a change of action from them.
OLD GUY says
Biden’s will do and say what ever serves their need to remain in power and to keep the funding coming. Honor seems to have left the political profession being replaced by greed and the power hungry.
Marcus Arelius says
It’s like watching the Corleone Family at Mass. You know somewhere, someone’s getting whacked. He can get the ashes on Ash Wednesday all he wants, he’s unrepentant, and the greatest sin, as we all know, is not asking for forgiveness.