"Far from 'uniting' the country, Biden has proven yet again he is an extremist on abortion," said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "Becerra is aggressively pro-abortion and a foe of free speech. As attorney general of California, he continued what his predecessor Kamala Harris started by persecuting citizen journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s role in baby parts trafficking. Not only that, he went all the way to the Supreme Court to try to force California’s pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise and refer for abortion – a policy the Court rejected as unconstitutional. In Congress, he even voted in favor of partial-birth abortion."
KAMALA HARRIS, THE GODLESS.
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/kamala-harris-godless-just-follow-money.html
Harris is no friend of religious liberty. Her
recent decision to exclaim in the year of our Lord, which has been conveniently
picked up by her staff, is a ploy designed to appeal to unassuming Christian
voters impressed by "God talk." As the old adage says, actions speak
louder than words, and on this score, Harris fails to convince.
It is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood
who have joked about selling
aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of
California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal,
after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
Archbishop Chaput: Pro-Abortion Joe Biden ‘Should Not Receive Holy Communion’
Archbishop Charles Chaput has warned of serious scandal if bishops indicate their willingness to give Holy Communion to Joe Biden despite his overt support for abortion.
“Public figures who identify as ‘Catholic’ give scandal to the faithful when receiving Communion by creating the impression that the moral laws of the Church are optional,” Archbishop Chaput wrote in First Things this weekend. “And bishops give similar scandal by not speaking up publicly about the issue and danger of sacrilege.”
In a thinly veiled swipe at the archbishop of Washington D.C. — the newly made Cardinal Wilton Gregory — Archbishop Chaput notes that bishops contribute to the scandal when they act as if supporting abortion does not harm a person’s relationship with the Church.
“Those bishops who publicly indicate in advance that they will undertake their own dialogue with President-elect Joseph Biden and allow him Communion effectively undermine the work of the task force established at the November bishops’ conference meeting to deal precisely with this and related issues,” states Chaput, the former archbishop of Philadelphia.
Joe Biden Denied Communion at South Carolina Church Over Abortion Stance https://t.co/yQ5XDIE1AA
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 29, 2019
“This gives scandal to their brother bishops and priests, and to the many Catholics who struggle to stay faithful to Church teaching,” he adds. “It does damage to the bishops’ conference, to the meaning of collegiality, and to the fruitfulness of the conference’s advocacy work with the incoming administration.”
These strong words followed on a recent public statement by Cardinal Gregory that he will continue to abide by the McCarrick Doctrine, which advocates offering Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who publicly support abortion rights, saying he will not “veer” from prior practice established by McCarrick in the archdiocese.
“The kind of relationship that I hope we will have is a conversational relationship where we can discover areas where we can cooperate that reflect the social teachings of the church, knowing full well that there are some areas where we won’t agree,” Gregory said.
In 2004, then-Bishop Gregory was then president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference and joined McCarrick in resisting Rome’s call for withholding Communion from pro-abortion Catholic politicians in accord with Canon Law no. 915.
That same year, Gregory formed a “Task Force on Catholic Bishops and Catholic Politicians” and named Cardinal McCarrick, who was averse to refusing Communion to pro-abortion politicians, to head up the team.
McCarrick manipulated instructions from the Vatican, which underscored the seriousness of the abortion issue and declared that when a pro-abortion Catholic politician, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, “the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.”
Instead of conveying these indications to the other bishops, McCarrick “summarized” them, stating that Rome had said that each bishop should make up his own mind on how to proceed. The only other person who knew that McCarrick was lying was Bishop Gregory, who had received a copy of the letter from Rome.
Last month, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, the current president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, issued a stern declaration regarding the election of a pro-abortion Catholic president.
Anti-life policies “pose a serious threat to the common good whenever any politician supports them,” Gomez said. “We have long opposed these policies strongly, and we will continue to do so.
“But when politicians who profess the Catholic faith support them, there are additional problems,” he continued. “Among other things, it creates confusion with the faithful about what the Church actually teaches on these questions.”
In his own essay, Archbishop Chaput notes the gravity of the bishops’ responsibility to clearly teach the truth on this matter.
The lengths the Establishment Media has gone to prop up Joe Biden this election is astounding https://t.co/YvTRr3TzMC
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 17, 2020
“When bishops publicly announce their willingness to give Communion to Mr. Biden, without clearly teaching the gravity of his facilitating the evil of abortion (and his approval of same-sex relationships), they do a serious disservice to their brother bishops and their people,” he writes.
“The reason is obvious. By his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,” he adds, and “many of his actions and words have also supported or smoothed the way for grave moral evils in our public life that have resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.”
“Mr. Biden has said that he will continue to advance those same policies as president, and thus should not receive Holy Communion,” Chaput notes. “His stated intention requires a strong and consistent response from Church leaders and faithful.”
Yes, Joe Biden Is a Catholic in Name Only
Yes,
Joe Biden is Catholic in name only. So are Nancy Pelosi, Dick
Durbin, and a bevy of other liberal Democrats who are "personally opposed'
to abortion" while paying lip service to a basic tenet of their alleged
faith. To be sure, you cannot judge what's in someone's heart and
soul, and you should not judge lest ye be also judged by the same
standards. But it has also been said by someone with authority that
by their fruits ye shall know, and the fruits of the efforts of Joe Biden and
others to preserve the "right" to an abortion and the funding of
Planned Parenthood are tens of millions of little corpses and assorted baby
body parts that have torn this nation's moral fiber and humanity.
Democrats
would not accept a Republican saying he is merely personally opposed to slavery
or racial discrimination. I, like Joe Biden, am a Catholic, but I,
unlike Joe Biden, accept the basic tenet that life begins at
conception. The time and means of our passing are determined by God,
not by a surgeon's instruments, and abortion on demand is a moral
evil. You cannot choose otherwise and be a Catholic.
That
is what former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz said on Wednesday night at
the Republican National Convention. He took a lot of heat for it,
but he was absolutely and eloquently
right:
Sharing the ideals of the Catholic university he
was a legendary football coach of, former Notre Dame football coach Lou
Holtz said Joe Biden and the Democrats are "Catholics in name only."
"Nobody has been a stronger advocate
for the unborn than President [Donald] Trump," Holtz said in
an address to the
Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. "The
Biden-Harris ticket is the most radically pro-abortion campaign in history.
"They and other politicians are Catholics in
name only, abandoning innocent lives. President Trump protects those
lives."
Responding
to the inevitable outcry from those who believe that all our rights and moral
authority come from government, Holtz defended the truth others can't
handle, truth based on exactly what Catholic
teaching says:
"People have taught me that to murder an
unborn child at nine months is illegal," Holtz told "Bill Hemmer
Reports". "That's not part of the Catholic faith. And Joe Biden — he
may be a wonderful individual, I hear great things about him — I'm not casting
aspersions on his character, his integrity, but I am casting aspersions on his
decision." ...
In the Catholic Catechism, abortion itself —
described as "gravely contrary to moral law" — is classified as
a violation of the Fifth Commandment against killing. Catholic
clergy have repeatedly condemned both the act itself and
abortion-rights political advocacy. Vatican
officials have reportedly said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should be denied the sacrament of
Holy Communion and the last pope — Pope Benedict XVI — personally reminded her
of the Church's stance on the issue during a private meeting.
Joe
Biden was once denied Holy Communion for his steadfast advocacy for ending
human life in the womb. Biden, while campaigning in South Carolina,
presented himself for Holy Communion and was refused at the 9 A.M. Mass at
Saint Anthony Catholic Church, where Father Robert E. Morey serves as
pastor. As the Christian Post reported:
Morey confirmed with
SC Now that Biden was denied the sacrament because of his advocacy
for abortion rights. ...
"Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse
Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden," Morey told the
publication Monday. "Holy Communion signifies we are one with
God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that. Any public
figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church
teaching."
The rebuke from Morey comes after Biden publicly objected last
Wednesday to a proposal to
outlaw abortions in South Carolina after about six weeks of
pregnancy, including in cases of rape or incest[.] ...
He also noted that even though he personally
opposes abortion, "I don't think I have the right to impose my view — on
something I accept as a matter of faith — on the rest of society."
But
Joe, as a Catholic, you are obligated to practice your faith, and
spread your faith, to make apostles of all nations. Your faith is
not just a one hour on a Sunday thing, and you are commanded by your Catholic
Church and its founder, Jesus Christ, to place the light you have been blessed
with high on the nightstand and not hide it under a bushel. Can a
politician kiss babies if he believes that their birth is a choice like which
shoes to wear?
Biden's
target in 2020 is President Donald J. Trump, who has publicly professed that he
believes that every human life is a gift from God. Elizabeth Warren,
who supports abortion to the moment of birth, denies the humanity of the unborn
and their right to life. Does Biden remember the Bible passage where
Mary, pregnant with the fetus Christians call Jesus, greeted Elizabeth, and the
baby — yes, baby — who was to become John the Baptist leapt in his mother's
womb? Does he remember the passage where God reminds us that even
before he formed us in the womb, He knew us?
Biden's
faith is selective. The faith of our Founding Fathers was absolute
when they noted in the Declaration of Independence that our unalienable rights
come from our Creator and that foremost among those rights, before liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, is life.
Joe
Biden has the moral spine and religious convictions of a
jellyfish. How else to explain the "triple-Axelrod"
awarded by veteran operative David Axelrod to this serial groper, who would
have a grasp on reality only if it were a female, for blindly agreeing to a
rope-line question about past support for the Hyde Amendment blocking federal
funding of abortion? Axelrod discussed Biden's remarks with Alisyn
Camerota on CNN:
Former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod
weighed in on Joe Biden's position reversal on the Hyde
Amendment, which bars federal funding for most abortions, saying it is a
"flip flop flip" which highlights some of the larger problems with
his candidacy:
DAVID AXELROD: I think that this was a parable
about Biden that goes to question marks about his candidacy ... the virtue of
having a long record and comforting people and being a figure of stability has
the flip side that you have to defend positions that you've had over the course
of 45 years in politics, some of which may have been acceptable in the day and
not acceptable now. We see that on this issue of the Hyde
Amendment[.] ... Joe Biden was out on the campaign, and he's not been out that
much and a voter challenged him on the question of Hyde, video was rolling, and
he said he would reverse this policy[.] ... Then the next day when it came to
light the campaign put out a statement and said, no, he still believes in the Hyde
amendment. Then there was a furor and last night he flipped
again. So that was a flip, flop, flip, which is never a good thing
in politics and it raises questions about his own performance and his own
steadiness and his campaign's performance. So this was not a good —
you know, beyond the issue itself, this was not a reassuring episode for the
Biden campaign.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN: A flip-flop flip,
also known as a triple Axelrod.
Biden
can no longer fudge the issue. He is the nominee of a party that
embraces abortion without restrictions and on demand from conception to birth
and even after birth. He accepts the endorsement of Planned
Parenthood and its thirty pieces of campaign silver.
Thankfully,
in an age of "cafeteria Catholics" who pick and choose which Church
doctrines they will adhere to and which they will ignore, an age where we have
a Pope Francis, who would have us pray for the oceans and invites Amazonian
"priests" and their fertility gods into the Vatican, it was
refreshing to see a Catholic priest speak truth to power and tell a craven
Catholic politician that abortion on demand is a moral evil opposed by the
Catholic Church — and that to approve of it means you are unworthy of receiving
the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
It
was refreshing to see faithful Catholic Lou Holtz remind Joe Biden and the rest
of us what Catholic teaching and Catholic truth are. It is the truth
that will keep us free.
Daniel John Sobieski is a former
editorial writer for Investor's Business Daily and free lance writer whose
pieces have appeared in Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago
Sun-Times among other publications.
'Unacceptable': Pro-lifers Sound Off on Biden's Pick for HHS Secretary
Source: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Joe Biden has reportedly chosen California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his HHS Secretary. And the news has alarmed the pro-life community.
The Susan B. Anthony List, one of the most notable groups in the fight for life, immediately reacted to the report to warn pro-lifers that Becerra is "aggressively pro-abortion." The California AG has charged David Daleiden, the Center for Medical Progress reporter who exposed the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal a few summers ago, on several counts. Daleiden fired back with a lawsuit alleging that Becerra, and former California AG Kamala Harris, violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
"Far from 'uniting' the country, Biden has proven yet again he is an extremist on abortion," said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "Becerra is aggressively pro-abortion and a foe of free speech. As attorney general of California, he continued what his predecessor Kamala Harris started by persecuting citizen journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s role in baby parts trafficking. Not only that, he went all the way to the Supreme Court to try to force California’s pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise and refer for abortion – a policy the Court rejected as unconstitutional. In Congress, he even voted in favor of partial-birth abortion."
"This pick underscores the importance of winning in Georgia to prevent pro-abortion forces from taking control of the U.S. Senate. Republican senators must stand firm and stop this unacceptable nomination from going forward."
Meanwhile the leaders of pro-abortion organizations like NARAL, who apparently now refer to the procedure as "reproductive freedom," are jubilant.
Huge! @XavierBecerra at HHS will recenter science and facts in guiding public policy. He's compassionate, committed to reproductive freedom and to health care as a human right. Trump's HHS was the home of some of the Administration's worst horrors. A new era has begun indeed. https://t.co/qlfn4E0RE2
— ilyseh (@ilyseh) December 6, 2020
As others have noted, Becerra has also supported the radical Medicare for All measure.
BREAKING: Biden's HHS pick backed Medicare for All & pressed Obama to take action against pharmaceutical companies - now he will be in a position to grant states Medicare for All waivers and to take that action against Big Pharma that he said he supports https://t.co/ZN2m3UqWl1
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 7, 2020
Pro-life senators have already warned Biden that they'll be voting "no."
Xavier Becerra spent his career attacking pro-life Americans and tried to force crisis pregnancy centers to advertise abortions.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) December 7, 2020
He’s been a disaster in California and he is unqualified to lead HHS.
I’ll be voting no, and Becerra should be rejected by the Senate. https://t.co/mEvpMrqPeH
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