Posted on 12/21/2020 6:39:18 PM PST by xomething
Rhode Island Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin joined a growing chorus of Catholic leaders this week in urging Joe Biden not to present himself for communion because of his pro-abortion stance. Biden claims to be a devout Catholic but holds positions on abortion, family and religious freedom that contradict his faith.
Catholic and other Christian leaders have been urging Biden to repent of his support for the evil of abortion, and some bishops have warned him not to receive communion until he does.
This week, Tobin told WJAR News 10 that he would ask Biden not to receive communion if he came to mass in the Diocese of Providence.
“Under the current circumstances, if I’m still bishop and he were to come to Mass here, I would respectfully ask him not to present himself for Holy Communion,” Tobin said. “Documents from the Vatican have been very clear that a political leader, a public servant who consistently and persistently takes positions against the teachings of the Church on these important moral issues should not present themselves for Holy Communion.”
In late November, Tobin also expressed his thoughts about how the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops should respond to a president who claims to be Catholic but opposes many of its teachings.
“Should the U.S. Bishops seek common ground with President Biden, or confront him on critical moral issues? Yes. Both. We should cooperate when we can and challenge when we must. And the working group appointed by Archbishop [José] Gomez will assist in doing that,” the bishop wrote on Twitter.
The USCCB recently formed a working group to figure out how to work with the Biden administration.
Biden has touted himself as a devout Catholic who cares about the most vulnerable in society. However, the Democrat leader also hypocritically champions positions that contradict the teachings of his faith and jeopardize the lives and freedoms of millions of Americans, the worst being his plans to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions and force taxpayers to fund their deaths.
This has renewed the debate among American Catholic leaders about whether to give communion to pro-abortion Catholic politicians.
Tobin, Bishop Samuel Aquila of the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, Philadelphia Archbishop emeritus Charles Chaput and others have said they do not think Biden should receive communion unless he repents.
“Mr. Biden has said that he will continue to advance those same policies as president, and thus should not receive Holy Communion. His stated intention requires a strong and consistent response from Church leaders and faithful,” Chaput wrote at First Thing earlier this month.
He criticized Biden for supporting abortion, a “grave moral evil” that has “resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.”
“When bishops publicly announce their willingness to give Communion to Mr. Biden, without clearly teaching the gravity of his facilitating the evil of abortion … they do a serious disservice to their brother bishops and their people,” he continued.
Other Catholic leaders, however, disagree. Last month, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, D.C. said he will not refuse to give communion to Biden.
Gregory said it is normal for Catholics to have disagreements; they are part of “being a family, a family of faith. The difficulty is too many people want to throw out of the family of faith people with whom they have disagreements.”
Biden’s plans and the people leading his administration are radically pro-abortion. They also oppose religious freedom protections for Catholic charities and other employers. His vice president, Kamala Harris, has been accused of anti-Catholic bigotry. She also prosecuted pro-life undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted baby body parts trade.
If Biden does what he promised, abortions could increase across America. Not only does Biden plan to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law in case the U.S. Supreme Court overturns it, he also wants to end the Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to pay for elective abortions.
More than 800,000 unborn babies are aborted every year in America, and about 62 million have been aborted since 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court forced states to legalize abortion on demand. Without the Hyde Amendment, researchers at the Charlotte Lozier Institute predict 60,000 more unborn babies could be killed in abortions each year.
In April, Biden went so far as to call the killing of unborn babies an “essential medical service” during the coronavirus pandemic. His health care plan would expand abortions as well by forcing insurance companies to cover abortions as “essential” health care under Obamacare.
He also promised to undo all of Trump’s progress for life, including restoring funding to the billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood.
On religious freedom, Biden’s position also is deeply troubling. Biden has endorsed anti-religious freedom policies that would force nuns, religious charities and hospitals to violate their deeply-held beliefs by funding the killing of unborn babies in abortions and potentially even by helping to facilitate their deaths. He also promised to restore an Obama-era mandate that would force the nuns with Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers to fund contraception, including types that may cause abortions, in their employee health insurance plans.
Ping
So, according to Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, D.C., abortion vs pro-life is a ‘disagreement’.
In other words if you oppose cutting up a live baby in the womb, murdering an unborn baby, then you are just in ‘disagreement’ with other Catholics that think that is perfectly acceptable and may even practice it.
If I'm mistaken and any powerful Baptist pastor has told Kamala Harris she is not welcome to receive communion at his church until she repents of her pro-abortion agenda, let me know...
If you are pro-abortion you are not Catholic. If you vote for Democrats who are pro-abortion you’re not Catholic. You may think you are but you’re not.
Didn’t somebody who outranks him say Cheatin’ China Joe was OK to get communion?
AN archbishop or a cardinal....
Biden likes to sniff little boys so I bet that gets him anywhere he wants in that ‘church’.
We’re thankful there are still some moral clerics
The Catholic leadership isn’t any better about enforcing their own rules anymore than Congress is theirs. Both are at best soft handed.
58... "Doctors and nurses are also responsible, when they place at the service of death skills which were acquired for promoting life. But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centres where abortions are performed." 58...Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), 1995 Pope St. John Paul II
Oh, and throw Pelosi, Kaine etc. in with Joe and the others whose oaths mean nothing.
So on point.
As was your post...
Not only is biden pro-abortion, but he is a life-long serial cheater, crook, and warmonger!!!!
We all (beginning with me) need to repent and confess our sins, as we approach the chalice, if not before.. But in biden’s case, repentance would include admitting he stole the election, and conceding!! That isn’t going to happen!!!!
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