The Biden-Bergoglio Reset

American Spectator ^ | November 1, 2020 | George Neumayr

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The Biden-Bergoglio Reset

Will the alliance JFK promised to avoid come to pass?

Pope Francis at the White House in 2015

As the party of secularism, the Democrats pride themselves on keeping “religion out of politics.” But they don’t mind if liberal politics seeps into religion. Nor do they mind taking direction from politicized religious figures. Recall the pope’s visit to Congress during the Obama-Biden administration. The Democrats were all ears, as Pope Francis delivered an address touting their favorite left-wing causes, from open borders to climate-change activism.

Both men are products of a hopelessly politicized era in the history of the Church, in which a generation of faithless bishops gave rise to a generation of faithless pols.

John F. Kennedy had promised not to let a pope influence his politics. But today’s Catholic Democrats make no such vows. Indeed, Joe Biden has reversed JFK’s pledge, as he brags about his political alliance with Pope Francis. In the closing days before the election, Biden has been courting the Catholic vote by aligning himself with the pope’s political musings, quoting from his encyclicals, and playing up their friendship.

Where Kennedy said that the pope did “not speak” for him on political matters, Biden loudly invokes Francis in his politics. This, of course, points up an enormous and maddening irony: the same Joe Biden who throughout his career has said that he will not “impose” his faith on non-Catholics is happy to dump the pope’s personal politics on them.

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Ping

[Steve_Seattle]

By declaring his support of same-sex relationships two weeks before the American election, the pope is clearly meddling in that election.

His message is a clear signal to leftist Catholics that they can ignore the Democrats' rejection of basic Catholic moral teaching - even promote the marginalization and criminalization of Catholics who uphold that teaching - and remain Catholics in good standing.

That one statement by the pope could have more influence on the election that any amount of behind-the-scenes Russian meddling.

[delta7]

Biden is not Catholic, aside from being banned from receiving communion, he supports abortion. One can not be called a Christian if they support murder of defenseless, innocent, unborn children- a special place awaits them, I call it “the smoking section”.

[nonsporting]

2ndA reset coming.

Sodomite behavior will be decriminalized, when SCOTUS over reach has been repudiated.