Joe Biden pulls rank on little priest who denied him Communion
Joe Biden is out pulling rank.
In response to a little priest in South Carolina denying him Holy Communion for advocating pro-abortion positions inconsistent with Church teaching, the former vice president and Democratic Party presidential frontrunner made it clear he didn't deal with pipsqueaks.
Asked about the incident, Lifesite News reported Biden's response:
“It’s not a position that I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father, who gives me Communion.”
So instead of thinking about the priest's position and offering some kind of contemplative thought, Biden declared it was all O.K. to be advocating for abortion from his position, complete with public funding, because the pope gave him Communion. Despite the fact that even the pope is a priest and Communion is dispensed by priests with equal weight, even if a priest is tainted, Biden seems to be saying that because the pope gave him Communion instead of the priest, that proves the righteousness of his position.
In other words, he's got connections.
He completely sidestepped the issue the priest as concerned about, which was Biden's abortion advocacy under color of Catholicism. Instead of address that, he pulled rank, reminding everyone that he used to be vice president and he's still got connections.
Biden's response was roughly parallel to that of a Mafia don justifying himself after killing rivals on weekdays that he too deserves Communion on Sunday, (something the Church opposes) so he'll get it, too.
But it also had an elitist element. Who is this troublesome little priest to bother him when he's got the pope in his tree? As Joe Biden's trough-feeding through his son Hunter Biden has demonstrated, Joe's in good with the elites.
It's a risky move because it's something the pope might not appreciate, given the criticism he takes for his leftist ideas inside the Church. The pope actually has a pretty good pro-life record with his condemnation of "throwaway culture" including throwaway babies, as one of the few things he's been steadfast on. Now lefty pols like Biden are using him as their justification. Biden got communion from him? It's possible the pope didn't want to make a scene with the cameras on for a visiting dignitary, or that he didn't even know what Biden's positions were. Out on the Pontifex Twitter feed, the pope has so far kept quiet, but the odds are good he won't appreciate being used as a political shield, and Biden's arrogant rank-pulling might just force his hand.
Even if it doesn't, the message from Biden is clear: He's got connections, so to heck with any truth a little priest speaking truth to power might say.
Pope Francis Laments Aborted Babies, ‘Who Never See the Light of Day’
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Pope Francis pushed for a “culture of life” Friday, noting that among the most fragile people on earth are the many rejected children “who never see the light of day.”
In an address in the Vatican to the Hospital of the Innocents Institute of Florence, the pope told his audience we must promote a “culture of the child” and learn to be like little children because Jesus said, ‘If you do not become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.’”
“How badly we need a culture that recognizes the value of life, especially of the weak, threatened, and offended,” Francis said, “a culture that recognizes in every face, even the smallest, the face of Jesus: ‘Whoever welcomes one child like this in my name, welcomes me’ (Mt 18.5).”
Many mothers abort their children because they “suffer economic, social, cultural conditioning that pushes them to give up that wonderful gift that is the birth of a child,” he stressed. And many other children are “robbed of their childhood and their future” oftentimes facing desperate journeys to escape hunger or war.
“Today the goal we must set for ourselves,” he said, “is that no mother find herself in a position to have to abandon her child.”
The solution to helping so many unwanted children, the pope said, is to promote a “culture of adoption.”
“So often there are people who want to adopt children, but there is such a big bureaucracy, not to mention when there is corruption at play,” he said.
“There are many, many families who do not have children and would certainly want to have one through adoption,” he continued, adding that what is needed is to “create a culture of adoption because there are so many abandoned children, lonely children, victims of war and other things.”
With its six centuries of history, the pope said, the Institute of the Innocents “speaks to us of a city that has put the best of itself in welcoming children, so that they should no longer be called ‘abandoned’ but welcomed, entrusted to the love and care of the community.”
We must ensure that in the face of any event or tragedy that could separate a child from his parents, “there be structures and paths of welcome in which childhood is always protected and cared for, in the only worthy way: by giving children the best we can offer them,” he said.
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN
in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts
the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the
child to scream.
A Desensitized America Ignoring Ulrich Klopfer
It is a human tendency not to value something until it is under
assault or lost, but in the case of abortion, there is little evidence to suggest that the American public, or mainstream media, is
concerned with a blatant assault on the right to life of 2,246 children.
When reports surfaced that the remains of 2,246 aborted children
were found in the garage and later the vehicle of former abortionist Ulrich Klopfer, Americans were
horrified. But not for the reason one might think. As the news cycle passed by
it was seen that Americans were not horrified by the fact that innocent
children had been killed, but by the fact that the remains had been unknowingly
kept by an abortionist.
The gruesome discovery in Klopfer’s garage, and the national
response, is a glaring reflection that society has chosen to hide its eyes from
such crimes. Rather than directly confronting the fact that thousands of lives
had been lost through the practice of abortion, Americans chose to look the
other way and ask why Indiana’s most prolific
abortionist would not dispose of
the remains.
That realization should cause people to shudder. But the lack of
media attention the story has received makes it feel as though no one noticed
any injustice in the legalized active killing of 2,246 children.
A quick google search will show that the story surrounding Klopfer
has thus far received little attention on national television news broadcasts, with the large
majority of coverage coming from local news outlets. One would think that
an acceptable approach to finding the remains of 2,246 aborted children would
be holding the nationwide abortion industry accountable for their business
practices and nationally illustrating the reality of what abortion is, the
active practice of ending indefensible human life, but that has yet to be seen.
This is not the first time that fetal remains have been discovered
to be kept after being aborted. Last year in Detroit multiple funeral homes were found to have over 60 fetal remains and the clinic of
former abortionist Kermit Gosnell was described by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams as filled
with “rotting bodies, fetal remains, the smell of urine throughout,
blood-stained.”
Without implementing policies and guidelines which will restrict
the inhumane treatment of fetal remains after an abortion nothing will stop
abortionists inhumanely treating preborn infants in the future. A simple truth
must be accepted, abortionists should not be allowed to hide infant bodies in
their garages, throw them into landfills, or burn them for fuel.
A Gallup poll in 2013 found that American’s consider individual
freedoms the nation’s top virtue. Such
knowledge could lead one to assume that a people who consider individual
freedoms as the nation’s top virtue would seek to respect and enhance the
freedom of others. Yet, while such sentiments might be held by many, the lack
of interest in the murderous actions of Klopfer have shown that Americans are
desensitized to violence against the preborn, exposing a incomprehension of the
most basic individual freedom, the right to life.
Too much media exposure to violence through television, movies, and video games, has been linked to desensitization to real-life violence. Such
findings could be correlated to a lack of an emotional and rational response to
the issue of abortion and stories like that of Klopfer as a study conducted by the University of Michigan, the University of
Amsterdam, and Iowa State University, has found that "people exposed to
media violence become ‘comfortably numb’ to the pain and suffering of others
and are consequently less helpful" in dangerous situations.
As society continually becomes more desensitized to violence, the
threshold for potential shock value will continually escalate, leading some to
question at what point will society stop and recognize the amount of widespread
desensitization occurring.
Until then pro-life Americans will continually ask themselves:
Only after confronting the devastating truth’s hidden behind false
narratives surrounding abortion can society begin to reverse the real-life
damages that have been seemingly tolerated.
Viktor Fankl, a renowned Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who
survived Auschwitz, suggested in his book Man’s Search for Meaning that “the Statue of
Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the
West Coast.” While it is unlikely a Statue of Responsibility will ever be
constructed on the West Coast, an important lesson can be learned.
Liberty cannot be sustained without responsibility. If the
American public desires to enjoy the blessings of liberty, and pass liberty on
to following generations, it must first recognize and embrace the
responsibility of protecting all human life from its earliest stages, to the
final stages, of development.
Unfortunately, observing the current news cycle one can see that
Americans are more concerned with their illiterate historical
representation of Christopher Columbus, or
the idea that climate change is the “battle of
our time,” rather than accepting
responsibility for the fact that Americans have allowed over 60 million
children to be killed since 1973.
Ryan Neuhaus is a Regional
Coordinator with Students for Life of America
DEMOCRATS: PARTY OF TAX FUNDED ABORTION AND BILLIONS HANDED OVER TO
PREGNANT MEXICAN WOMEN TO BRED ANCHOR BABIES FOR FUTURE “CHEAP” LABOR!
Disgusting: Dems Prove, Once Again, They Support Infanticide With Their
Latest Filibuster
ABORTION KI LLS…. the innocent!
PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
America’s baby murdering factories…. Your
tax dollars at work
“I Cut the
Vocal Cord So The Baby Can't Scream.”
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