Posted on 01/30/2021 5:57:48 PM PST by marshmallow
Rome, Italy, Jan 28, 2021 / 04:41 pm MT (CNA).- The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences generated a flurry of controversy in the Italian Catholic blogosphere this week, after its Facebook page defended Joe Biden’s support of legal abortion.
The Pontifical Theological Institute’s Facebook page reposted an article published on Jan. 20 in the Italian edition of the Huffington Post, titled “Joe Biden, a Catholic at the White House among the poisons of the American Church.”
The article emphasized what it calls Joe Biden's “Social Gospel” and presented a series of declarations by political scientists and theologians to support the theory that Biden's election is complementary to Pope Francis' election because both of them give a sort of new breath to Catholic social teaching.
The Facebook post drew significant criticism, which is not uncommon.
Unusual, however, was the response of the Pontifical Theological Institute's account to some of these critical comments.
Some readers questioned why the Institute was praising Biden, who is a strong supporter of legal abortion, in sharp contrast with Catholic teaching.
In response, the Pontifical Theological Institute profile said that “defending the right to abortion does not mean defending abortion.”
The Institute's profile added that “above all, if we have to assign Catholicity licenses based on the political positions, very few politicians could describe themselves as Catholic.”
The statement is openly in contrast with the social teaching of the Church, and in particular with John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae.
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Bergoglio/Biden Barf Alert
The KKK will tell you defending the right to murder blacks is not the same as actually murdering blacks...
I get it that Joe doesn’t want to impose his religious views on others, if it were sincere, but I know there’s no way in hell that’s his sincere position since he goes well beyond that by providing funding for abortions. Biden is a fake Christian.
Saint John Paul II, pray for us!!!
I can accept a judge saying that her position on abortion will not affect her decisions from the bench because her job and her oath is to uphold the Constitution. I do not accept that from a politician, especially an executive. It is hypocrisy for a politician to say ... I’m personally against abortion but I’m going to vote for it. Biden is a complete phony.
Jao the death Commandante junta figurehead
Sauron has the Ring.
Killing babies is baby-killing no matter how you put it!
Thought you might want to know.
Did you ever think you would see the day that the JPII Institute had the same abortion stance as Michael Dukakis?
How do you think it would go for you if you announced that you condemn racism, but would defend to the death the right to have racist views?
We can all thank Pachamama and her adherents in the Vatican.
Only believable in a Bergoglio pontificate.
Stick a fork in it - the catholic church is done.
Let’s just call it what it is. . . .demonic.
Soros is smiling.
They got that wrong, there is no right to abortion.
Under the Reign of Francis the Red, the Church becomes the handmaiden of Moloch.
Stoke the fires, keep the furnaces lit. Young and old first to die.
Hail Satan, sez the Pope. It’s a brave new world. Yee Haw.
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