The Roman Catholic archbishop took office as President Joe Biden on Easter Sunday, nominally a holy day for Catholic Democrats.
recognized as “Transgender Visibility Day”.
according to For Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington, Biden is a “cafeteria Catholic” whose political agenda will ultimately determine what clearly defined doctrinal and moral teachings he embraces. It seems like it is.
Host Ed O’Keefe suggested to his guests Cardinal Gregory and left-wing Episcopal bishop Marian Budde that politics and religion have become particularly intertwined in recent years. He then pressed the clergy: “How are our two major candidates running for president citing Christianity?”
Cardinal Gregory began by saying that politics and religion have always had a “strange relationship, but now that relationship has changed. Whereas faith used to be the voice, the voice of morality, politicians… — whether you comply with everything or not — you will look to find what is moral.” Have faith and a compass. ”
“I think in some cases the political world is beginning to define, or insist on defining, the moral voice,” Gregory continued. “We have changed our position. I believe there is a great need to put faith in its proper place. It is not necessarily at odds with the political arena, but its guiding principles, its moral It’s about seizing the responsibility of being the light of the day.” We rely on our people. ”
The host brought up the issue of the president’s religiosity after Budde lobbed flimsy criticism at former President Donald Trump, whom O’Keefe had previously noted had recently become obsessed with selling Bibles.
“Do you understand that? [Biden’s] “Does regular attendance and adherence to the faith resonate with American Catholics?” asked O’Keefe.
“I think he’s very sincere about his faith, but like many Catholics, he picks and chooses aspects of the faith to emphasize and ignores or contradicts other parts. Sometimes even,” Gregory said. “One of the words we’ve used in the past is ‘cafeteria Catholicism’: choose what’s appealing and ignore what’s difficult.”
Mr. Biden
claimed As recently as February, he announced that he is a “practicing Catholic.”
Cardinal Gregory added: “Especially when it comes to matters of life. [Biden] Instead of saying, “Look, my church believes this, I’m a good Catholic, this is what I want to believe,” we choose to ignore it or present ourselves as political pawns. Take advantage of the current situation. Rather than twisting and changing some aspects of the faith for political advantage. ”
Biden’s positions on abortion, gender ideology, and gay unions are at odds with Catholic teachings and the Church.
On abortion, the church that Biden claims to be a member of says abortion is a grave moral sin and that political leaders have a responsibility to protect unborn children.
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catechism of the catholic church” clearly states:
- “Human life must be respected and absolutely protected from the moment of conception” (2270);
- “Since the first century, the Church has recognized that all abortions are morally evil. This teaching has and will never change. Abortion is deeply immoral.” (2271).
- “Official cooperation in abortion constitutes a grave crime. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life” (2272).and
- “The inalienable rights of the individual must be recognized and respected by civil society and political authority. No. They belong to human nature, which is unique to the person by virtue of the creative act that gave rise to him” (2273).
Cardinal Raymond Burke, a canon lawyer and former president of the church’s highest court, stressed in 2020 that Biden and other pro-abortion leaders should not receive the Eucharist.
report Catholic News Service.
Burke said Biden “is not a Catholic in good standing and should not be approached for Holy Communion.”
“This is not a political statement,” Burke continued. “I have no intention of getting involved in endorsing any candidate for public office, but simply that Catholics should not support abortion in any way, because abortion is one of the gravest crimes against human life. I just want to say that because it has always been thought that way. It is inherently evil and supporting that behavior in any way is a mortal sin.”
Archbishop Charles Chapou, who ran the Archdiocese of Philadelphia until 2020,
similarly proposed In 2022, Biden said he would be “out of communion with the Catholic faith” and warned that “the priests who are currently administering Communion to the president are complicit in his hypocrisy.”
Biden isn’t just at odds with the church over its support for fetal genocide. Biden also
recognized by the left As a “champion” of the LGBT agenda, which is likewise contrary to the teachings of the Church.
In March 2023, Pope Francis
I felt stressed He said the gender ideology promoted by Biden is “one of the most dangerous forms of ideological colonization” today.
“Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs the differences and values between men and women,” the pope said. “Gender issues dilute differences and make the world the same, boring, and samey. It goes against the human mission.”
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also emphasized last year that so-called “gender-affirming care” is harmful.
“Technological interventions that are inconsistent with the fundamental order of humanity as a unity of body and soul, including gender differences imprinted on the body, will ultimately not help humans but rather harm them.” ” the bishops wrote. The doctrinal notes of March 20th state, “On the moral limits of technological manipulation of the human body.. ”
Congregation for Catholic Education of the Vatican
It was revealed In 2019, he wrote, “As an anthropological rebuttal to attempts to deny the male-female duality of humanity, which is the origin of the family, we need to reaffirm the metaphysical roots of sexual difference. “The denial of gender does not simply erase sexual differences.” A vision that sees humans as the result of an act of creation, but it also creates the idea of humans as a kind of abstraction that “chooses for itself what its nature will become.” ”
Despite efforts by LGBT activists inside and outside the Catholic Church, including James Martin, to distort the Church’s teachings, Pope Francis
underlined Homosexuality is not a crime, but it is a sin. The church insists that gay “marriage” remains out of the question.
Nevertheless, Biden ratified the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops emphasizes that:
Letter of November 23, 2022 It said the law’s “rejection of timeless truths about marriage is evident in its face and purpose.”
Biden’s apparent refusal to accept the Catholic Church’s guidance on these moral issues has led various church officials to point out that Biden has effectively become an apostate.
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