Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
During the South Carolina primary, Fr. Robert Morey of Florence denied Biden communion on the grounds he had excommunicated himself by taking the stand he has taken on the killing of the unborn… Had moral truth changed? Did Catholic teaching change? No, Biden changed.
As a cradle Catholic and recipient of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal, Joe Biden is outspoken in declaring that the principles and beliefs of his Catholic faith guide his public life.
“Joe is a man of faith,” was a recurring theme at the Democratic convention that nominated him to become our second Catholic president.
Biden has often affirmed the centrality of his faith to his decisions in public life. In a video released on the eve of the convention, he credited Pope Francis and the nuns who educated him with making him the man he is today.
Yet, when the Supreme Court ruled in July that the Little Sisters of the Poor could not be forced, by an Obamacare mandate, to provide contraceptives to employees, Biden called the decision “disappointing.”
For Joe has evolved over a half-century. He is now an all-in Roe v. Wade Catholic who supports a woman’s right to abortion and believes the tax dollars of his fellow Catholics should pay for the abortions of women who cannot afford them.
This year, he changed his position and came out against the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions.
What triggered Joe’s renunciation of his past support for the Hyde Amendment? Primary opponents Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris had battered him for it and Bernie Sanders had given Biden some tutoring in the new moral law of the Democratic Party.
Said the Vermont socialist, “There is no middle ground on women’s rights.” With that cuffing, Biden scurried off the middle ground and was all in.
“Circumstances have changed,” is how Biden explained his flip-flop.
Biden’s moral journey from right-to-life to pro-abortion Democrat has not gone unnoticed within the Church. A dozen years ago, when Biden was still a senator, a bishop in Scranton, with Joe in mind, declared:
“I will not tolerate any politician who claims to be a faithful Catholic who is not genuinely pro-life. … No Catholic politician who supports the culture of death should approach Holy Communion.”
During the South Carolina primary, Fr. Robert Morey of Florence denied Biden communion on the grounds he had excommunicated himself by taking the stand he has taken on the killing of the unborn.
“Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other, and the Church,” said Morey. “Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself out of Church teaching.”
Biden also supports the restoration of federal funds for Planned Parenthood, a provider of abortions. Nor is life the only issue on which Biden has taken his leave of the teachings of the Church in which he was raised.
In 1994, Biden voted to cut off federal funds to schools that teach an acceptance of homosexuality. In 1996, he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act.
Once he had become vice president in 2012, however, Biden even got out ahead of Barack Obama in urging that homosexual unions be granted the legal and social standing of traditional marriage.
Had moral truth changed? Did Catholic teaching change? No, Biden changed. The Catechism of the Catholic Church still declares “homosexual acts” to be “intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law” and describes “homosexual tendencies” as “objectively disordered.”
Biden once believed this, or said he did for most of his life, for that is the way he campaigned in Delaware and voted in D.C.
What has changed is the Democratic Party Biden now heads. The precepts of LGBT now dictate “moral truth” in the party and platform of Joe Biden who now calls transgender rights “the civil rights issue of our time.”
As Biden has turned his back on the teachings of the Church in which he was raised, the Church itself is coming under physical attack by the same radicals besetting civil society.
In Miami, a statue of Christ the Good Shepherd was lately beheaded. A statue of the Blessed Virgin inside a Boston church was set on fire, and another was desecrated in Tennessee. In Denver, the same headless fate befell a statue of St. Jude.
Statues of Fr. Junipero Serra, the priest who founded 17 missions from San Diego north to San Francisco, when California was under Spanish rule, have been under constant attack.
In St. Louis, a mounted statue in the city’s Forest Park of the 13th century Saint and King Louis IX, the French monarch for whom the city was named, who led the Sixth and Seventh Crusades, is under siege.
Radicals are even demanding that the city’s name be changed.
On right-to-life, the declared position of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is clear: “Taxpayer dollars should never fund abortion.”
This unequivocal moral stance is being publicly repudiated and will be rejected, should he win the presidency on Nov. 3, by the professed believing and practicing Catholic, Joe Biden.
What, if anything, are the U.S. Catholic bishops going to say about this grave moral issue in the fall election? Or will they remain silent?
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Contemporary organized religion has become a joke. It’s infested with LGBTQs, pedos, and money corruption. Modern Catholicism is one of the worst offenders. Challenging a corrupt politician over moral issues is tough when the moral authority to do so has eroded away.
If Catholicism is one of the worst offenders, the LDS is one of the least offenders when it comes to being soft on socialism, homosexuality, and the usual issues.
Over 3 million Americans (out of 80 million) and over 100 Protestant and Catholic churches and organizations petitioned to put the LDS on trial in the U.S. Senate from 1904 to 1907.
A four year long Senate inquiry! A Constitutional amendment banning the church and banning Mormons from government service was seriously debated.
Paul Harvey’s assessment of the decline of religion and where America was headed was laid out in his stunning 1970 BYU commencement speech.
https://tinyurl.com/ybh9z9ja
Orson Pratt (1875)
How’s that polygamy going for you guys?
Polygamy served it’s purpose until the 1890 Declaration.
People have been trying to trash biggest anti-communist Church that ever existed for their own greedy reasons, even since before the Russian revolution.
(Below, the national magazine waged media wars against the LDS 1910-1911, as America flipped Socialist-blue during the 1910 midterm massacre)
More American ought to go fight the Communists instead of trashing the true Church.
Happy 244th birthday USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Banner_of_Heaven
Yeah, Lehi smote off Laban’s head for stealing his sacred stuff before bugging out for America.
The rest is history.
It’s not too late to read the Book of Mormon (1830, 531 pages)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_the_Cults
Next you’ll be throwing Charles Bronson at me!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095626/
The only thing I’m going to throw at you is some advice to seek help from a professional mental healthcare representative.
Many of the Catholic bishops would rather remain silent than speak against evil…as long as that evil is a democrat politician. They engaged in a national lie when John Kerry ran (McCarrick and Gregory led the lie) and now too many are comfortable with it.
Goes back a whole lot more than that,JFK comes to mind, and how about his murdering brother Ted?
Apples did not fall far from the tree considering their father.
poor Pat, he is such a relic, no one gives a shit about the Catholic church.
That south park episode with the queen spider is the truth of the matter:
“…he credited Pope Francis and the nuns who educated him with making him the man he is today.”
This explains so much.
“Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other, and the Church,”
Show me the verse.
If they did they would have to burn you at the stake.
The Catholic Church is filled with the smoke of Satan and unworthy of even uttering the Lord Jesus Christ’s name. In doing so, they disgrace His veneration. As a former Catholic, why do I say this?
Because they supported the welfare state and LBJ’s Great Society. It kept their coffers full. They didn’t have to spend as much to evangelize, to tend to the poor.
They have known for DECADES what this government funds while their heretical leadership also turns a blind eye to pedophilia.
It’s yet another institution that needs to burn to the ground and to be realigned with the Prince of Peace. Talk about the Awakening we need!
No, they were Epstiened years ago.