Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, said President Joe Biden is “making a mockery of our Catholic faith” by using sacred symbols while promoting abortion.
Bishop Paprocki said in reference to Biden’s recent use of the sign of the cross at an abortion rally in Florida. accused He said he was “making a mockery of the gesture” by using it to promote something evil, and “that makes it sacrilegious.”
As reported by Breitbart News, Mr. Biden, who identifies as Catholic, wore a cross on April 23 as Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried slammed the state’s six-week limit on abortions. signed.
The 81-year-old president personally held up a cross, in the same way that President Fried condemned abortion restrictions, and symbolically represented the cross of Christ while saying the three names of the Holy Trinity. It was a Catholic custom that meant
“To abuse this sacred act is to make a mockery of our Catholic faith,” Bishop Paparoki said in a May 8 newspaper. video The post has since gone viral and was posted on the diocese’s YouTube channel.
“Making the Sign of the Cross is the deepest thing a Catholic can do in signing in the name of the Father, Son and God, showing respect for Christ’s death on the Cross and faith in the Holy Trinity.” It’s a gesture, “Holy Spirit,” said the bishop, an expert on canon law.
By desecrating this sacred act, Biden “further strengthened his support for the sin of abortion,” the bishop said.
Paprocki quoted Spanish Bishop José Ignacio Munilla as saying that making the sign of the cross in support of abortion is “blasphemous” because it “desecrates” the sacred act. Stated.
A day after the video was released, Bishop Paprocki appeared as a guest on the diocese’s podcast, “Dive Deep,” and said that by publicly supporting abortion, Biden was rejecting a key part of the Fifth Commandment, which prohibits murder. .
The president “seems to be saying there’s nothing wrong with killing babies in the womb,” Paparoki said.
