What Joe Biden means for Catholics in America

Los Angeles Times ^ | February 12, 2021 | Jaweed Kaleem

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Watching the first weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency unfold on TV from her Bronx apartment, Natalia Imperatori-Lee saw a bit of herself in America’s new leader.

Like her, a mom of two Catholic school kids, Biden was a regular at Sunday Mass. In clips of him in the Oval Office, she glimpsed the rosary peeking out from his sleeve — reminding her of the prayer beads in the Cuban American home where she grew up. Reading reports of the president’s push to offer legal residency to millions of immigrants, she sensed the church’s teaching to “welcome the stranger among us.”

“I’m just proud to see a Catholic up there in the White House,” said Imperatori-Lee, a 44-year-old professor of ecclesiology at Manhattan College. “I don’t feel like he’s in your face about it, but if you pay attention you can’t help notice his faith. It’s like this quiet, motivating constant.”

After four years of a nominally Christian president who surrounded himself with conservative evangelicals, the Biden era has begun with a starkly different approach to religion. The first Roman Catholic in the nation’s highest office since John F. Kennedy, Biden has a liberal faith that closely aligns with many members of the country’s largest denomination who lean less rigid than their bishops and cardinals on matters of family and sexuality.

Biden’s support of same-sex marriage and abortion rights has spurred controversy and debate among clergy for running counter to church positions. Such is the American Catholic landscape, where Biden — reminiscent of an age when pews were full and parishioners bought Sunday papers on church steps after Mass — is a man who, like many in his faith, balances religious rituals and traditions with the ideals of a mainstream Democrat.

“He seems to me like a Pope Francis kind of Catholic,” said Imperatori-Lee.

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“I wasn’t alive before JFK died, so this is a first for me,” said Carruthers, who leads Resurrection Catholic Church, a community of about 1,200 parishioners outside Tampa. “To have a faith-filled president is exciting, especially one that shares that idea of dialogue that is part of the Catholic tradition.”

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Barf Alert Ping

[fhayek]

I am a Catholic. Unless barfing becomes the eighth sacrement, I am going to have to seek a new faith...

[Reddy]

Modern day “Catholics” are anti-death penalty, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual “marriage”, pro-transgenderism, and pro-socialism.

Believe me.

[BarbM]

You can put on feathers and sit in a chicken coop, but that don’t make you a chicken.

One can recite the Rosary, go to Mass and even make a confession, but that doesn’t make you a Catholic.

If you are pro choice, pro gay marriage, pro gender transitioning you are not Catholic. There are many many CINO’s out there.

[Magnatron]

Well, the Catholics have their fake pope, and we have a fake president who likes to say he’s Catholic.

It’s a brave new world...

[HangnJudge]

I have been a Protestant Godfather of a Catholic boy for >25 yrs
It has been a… journey
I must oppose Satan, All of his works, and all of his comforts
I grieve for how the Church has fallen
Please Lord, Thy Kingdom Come!

[DarthVader]

Nothing!!!

[MinorityRepublican]

He is pretending to be a Catholic. Until he confesses his sins and announces that he is pro-life, he remains a Catholic in Name Only.

[lastchance]

There are not enough barf bags in the world for this article.

[Texas Eagle]

What am I missing here? Wasn’t the charge against Amy Coney Barrett the fact that she was a Catholic?

[xp38]

The wrong kind of Catholic. The Pelosi Biden wing is what you want from the dim perspective.

[fidelis]

In the LA Times dreams. Here is what faithful Catholics think:

Catholic Priest Unloads on Pro-abortion Catholics-

[Slyfox]

Frankie ... Biden ... COVID ... Media

[xrmusn]

The Pelosi Biden wing is what you want from the dim perspective.
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I am a ‘former’ Catholic but I do get a sense of somewhat satisfaction when I see the hierarchy fawning over the likes of pelosi & biden etal it justifies my decision.

I won’t even go into my thoughts about this Pope.

Actually the ONLY one that counts knows what is in my heart and soul etc etc etc

[eeriegeno]

Josef Fraud Stolen is not a catholic. Any priest who administers sacraments to him should be kicked out of the priesthood.

[gleeaikin]

How stand the majority Catholic members of the Supreme Court?

[frank ballenger]

The credit given to Biden for being a “Catholic” while he and Pelosi totally violate the important elements of respect for life from the pre-born babies through the elderly subjected to “unwanted” assisted suicide euthanasia, makes me furious.

Using the religious rites and Rosary as political stage props and fooling people like in this article is blasphemous.

I want him exposed.

[chopperk]

Biden is a black mark on the Catholic Faith.

[mosesdapoet]

There seems to be a refusal in certain political circles known as the Swamp to blame the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for deliberately using the Wuhan virus to create an economy here which prevented Trump getting reelected. That created problems we didn’t need. Time we point out the loss of employment and the corruption involved. But focusing on his erratic religious behavior keep eyes off of his corruption

here is just some of the million$ that the Biden’s are involved in
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3820191/posts also Clinton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3881585/posts
The CCP’s (China Communist Party) newspaper The Global Times has endorsed Biden Claiming he would be the easiest to work with.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3876187/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877139/posts#8