Posted on 01/26/2020 1:35:10 PM PST by ebb tide
In 2016, Donald Trump, running alongside a Catholic turned Evangelical in Mike Pence, scooped up a majority of the Catholic vote. Hillary Clinton had added to her ticket nominally Catholic Tim Kaine, but that didn’t stop white Catholics from gravitating to Trump. Presumed opponent Joe Biden faces a similar problem. Trump remains popular with Mass-going white Catholics, who not only appreciate his strong stances in favor of religious freedom and a pro-life judiciary but also recognize that he has delivered to the country three-plus years of peace and prosperity.
Biden, who has followed his party into pro-abortion zealotry (he now supports forcing taxpayers to pay for it and supports partial-birth abortion), may appeal to bad Catholics, but he offers nothing to good ones. Most Mass-going Catholics can see that his “I am a Catholic from Scranton” schtick is bogus. Scranton Joe has become more like Hollywood Joe, serving as an officiant at gay weddings. Recall that he favored gay marriage before Obama did. So much for his “moderation.”
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My Very Young HANDSOME Priest today said that he was at the March and said that we have never had been so close to over turning Roe!! He also said there were between 400,000- 500,000 people there!! YEAH!!
Sadly there are a lot of Biden “Catholics”.
Abortion is murder.....both a sin and murder.
Any Catholic who votes Democrat should stop talking the sacraments and any Bishop or Priest who supports a pro-abortion Democrat should be defrocked.
In 2004 I ran field operations for Catholics Against Kerry. We hurt him in Ohio slowed him Pennsylvania and beat him in New Mexico with a total budget of under 100k. This time around if Bite Me tries the same “Vote for me because I’m a Catholic and you’re a Catholic” crap he will be even easier to smack down on that issue.
Tim Kaine... I had completely forgotten about him. Is he still alive? Doing anything?
| Yr | D | R | ||
| 1952 | 56% | 44% | ||
| 1956 | 51% | 49% | ||
| 1960 | 78% | 22% | Kennedy | |
| 1964 | 76% | 24% | LBJ | |
| 1968 | 59% | 33% | ||
| 1972 | 48% | 52% | ||
| 1976 | 57% | 41% | Carter | |
| 1980 | 46% | 47% | ||
| 1984 | 39% | 61% | ||
| 1988 | 51% | 49% | ||
| 1992 | 47% | 35% | Clinton | |
| 1996 | 55% | 35% | Clinton | |
| 2000 | 52% | 46% | ||
| 2004 | 52% | 48% | ||
| 2008 | 53% | 47% | Obama | |
| 2012 | 56% | 44% | Obama | |
| 2016 | 45% | 52% |
Just like the last election.
God bless and peace on Earth to people of goodwill.
Not THIS bad one, thank you very much!!
“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold as divine - but for unbelievers the proof of its divinity might be that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility could have lasted a fortnight.” - Hillaire Belloc
THIS Catholic with 76% Irish heritage has NO PROBLEM AT ALL with President Trump’s (at times) ‘irreverent humor’
What the hell’s wrong with saying; “What the hell do you have to lose?”
Pope Donald I. Has a nice ring to it.
Drain Washington, the Drain the Vatican.
MRCCGA!
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**How can anyone take their “social justice” blather seriously when they fail to protect their own flock?**
I’ll go with the young priest who was at the March for Life.
And let’s remind those Catholics that Biden cannot receive Holy Communion because he supports abortion.
What Catholic with a clear conscience could ever vote for him?
Last year after the confrontation between Nicholas Sandmann and the “elderly Native American veteran” at the Lincoln Memorial, the bishop of Lexington (KY) called Sandmann a racist because he was wearing a Make America Great Again cap. Pope Francis has repeatedly shown his hostility to President Trump. I hope he has sense enough to realize that if he openly takes a stand in the 2020 election it would be a disaster for the church.
Not everyone who claims to be Catholic actually is in good standing.
That statement above yours is pretty condemnatory of Catholics. No one has a key to know what ALL Catholics are thinking. It's an eclectic group of people.
The priests I know were at the March for Life. And they DO care about us.
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