Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas (center) kneels at El Paso’s Memorial Park holding a Black Lives Matter sign on June 1, 2020.
Posted on 10/06/2020 10:47:24 AM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas (center) kneels at El Paso’s Memorial Park holding a Black Lives Matter sign on June 1, 2020.
October 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A Texas bishop has joined with dissident Catholic apologists for the Democrat Party, declaring, “Single-issue voting has corrupted Christian political witness.”
In a rambling 2,500-word commentary published in Jesuit-run America Magazine, El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz ping-ponged between denunciations of both major U.S. political parties, but clearly came out in favor of the virulently pro-abortion Democrats because he sees abortion as just one of many “challenging” moral issues facing the nation in the upcoming election.
Seitz, who was famously photographed in early June kneeling while holding a “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) sign, wrote, “We have also seen how the promise of equality contained in our founding documents has been deferred again and again because we cannot confess with one voice — as church or country — what should be self-evident, that Black lives matter,” ignoring that organization’s manifesto calling for the dissolution of the nuclear family while promoting abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism.
“In an aggressively secular and hyper-competitive world, we should be grateful for the public respect for Pope Francis shown by the Democratic nominee, former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr., and the values of the working-class ethos that Mr. Biden aims to project,” wrote Seitz, overlooking the fact that President Donald Trump has become the champion of the forgotten working man after the Democratic Party’s long ago decision to ignore the white middle class. 
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Black Lives Matter posters on a chain link fence surrounding Lafayette Park, in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. LifeSiteNews/Doug Mainwaring
“We should recognize, too, the step forward represented by the selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Our daughters and sons need to see women reflected in our nation’s highest leadership,” continued Seitz, failing to mention that Harris is a key cheerleader for Planned Parenthood, having played a key role in defending Planned Parenthood over its sale of aborted baby parts while she served as California’s attorney general.
During an interview with Breitbart News in August, pro-life activist David Daleiden said, “Kamala Harris is the biggest threat to First Amendment civil liberties and First Amendment civil rights that our country has ever seen, in my opinion.”
“As a bishop on the border, I am also encouraged by the Biden campaign’s promises to address climate change, create a path to citizenship for the undocumented, restore protections for asylum seekers and never repeat the criminal practice of separating families at the border,” added Seitz.
Without offering substantiation, the El Paso bishop went on to accuse Christians who are single-issue voters of “scandalously” turning a blind eye to “real breakdowns in solidarity and dehumanizing policies, including crackdowns on worker rights and voting rights, the slashing of social support for the poor and sick, racism and the exploitation of immigrants and the environment.”
Turning his attention to the incumbent candidate, Seitz continued his litany of accusations saying that “Supported by a pagan aesthetic of self-assertion and buoyed by a destructive politics of fear and xenophobia, his administration has encouraged the worst expressions of nativism.”
Ironically, Seitz makes no mention of Pope Francis’ very real promotion of actual paganism at the Vatican last year.
A united plea from clergy and lay scholars to the Pope to repent for sacrilegious “Pachamama” idolatry at the 2019 Amazon Synod went unheeded.
Pope Francis receives the Pachamama during a pagan rite in Vatican Gardens before the opening of the Amazon Synod on Oct. 4, 2019.
“I share the pain, frustration and confusion facing Catholic voters this year at what feels like an impossible binary choice,” Seitz stated toward the end of his missive, but those who join with the USCCB in reognizing abortion as the preeminent life issue facing the nation experience no such “pain, frustration and confusion.”
Pro-life priests have repeatedly rejected the notion that Catholics can in good conscience support the Biden-Harris ticket.
I have askd this question for years and am accessed of being anti-Catholic and anti-Christian. I am neither. I used to be Methodist but when they went SJW years ago, I quit being a Methodist.
The full on support of illegals by the Catholic Church is destroying this country. Their failure to stop pedophile priests is a stain on them. What does it take to rise up and say “No this is NOT good”?
Catholics should absolutely be single issue pro-life voters. If they were, perhaps there would be no abortion in short order. Slobs like Bishop Mark J. Seitz should be told to shut up by the vatican. The man is an adulterated Catholic. He cares little about the work of God and more about the current state of politics in this country. The abortion decision by the Supreme Court was wrong. Abortion is equally as bad as adult murder. For a person to reach into a woman’s womb and kill a developing human being is the worst wrongdoing I can think of. People who do it are really foul.
Pedophilia
RCINC jettisons core tenets in the quest for increased revenues- (gotta pay those 500$/hr. mouthpieces to defend pedophile priests).
RCINC is the oldest, most profitable multinational corporation on the planet.
The Jesuits are the Communist arm of the Catholic Church. Remember that.
If Catholics make sacrificing babies on the altar of convenience a new sacrament; just for the sake of conflict avoidance, they will voided their status as a religion. Their boat has been taking on water with their acceptance of gay marriage.
He is saying in public what Francis’s racist-proabortion archbishop Gregory in Washington DC has been supporting for decades in Chicago, then Atlanta, and now DC.
Your Mission is from God.
Not the State, not from the Pope.
It is Catholics in the West that are capitulating to these evils, not the Church as a whole. The Catholics in the rest of the world (where the Church is growing fastest) are digging their heels in and aren't budging.
The Church here in the US has gone soft and weak with only a few notable exceptions. There is no guarantee that the Church will survive in this nation, just as it did not survive in ancient Ephesus. However, even with this disaster of a Pope we currently have, the Church will go on and emerge stronger. It is been thus for more than 2000 years.
The nation needs the Catholic Church as it was meant to be. The Marxists are tearing it down like a sheep led to slaughter.
And she’ll likely be “President Harris” within the First 100 Days of the Biden administration.
Some still do.
Rational Catholics know that the current leadership is not the church.
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