The Waffling of the Bishops on Biden and Communion

The American Spectator ^ | May 1, 2021 | George Neumayr

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The Waffling of the Bishops on Biden and Communion

They won’t enforce canon law against him.

The post-Vatican II Church has bred many of her own destroyers. Joe Biden is the premier example of this phenomenon. He is the anti-Catholic “Catholic” who persecutes his own church. He represents a political class of bad Catholics that grows larger with each passing year.

The Church could have crushed this serpent in its shell. But the bishops declined to do so, owing to their own lack of faith. They sat on their hands as pols like Biden wrapped themselves in the trappings of Catholicism while sabotaging her teachings. Had the bishops years ago cracked down on this political class of bad Catholics and applied canon law to it, the crisis that the Biden presidency represents might not have happened. Biden is the product of their own passivity, the culmination of the very secularized Catholicism that the bishops permitted to grow and spread for decades. In many ways, Biden, as a vessel of left-wing politics and modernist theology, embodies the crisis of the post-Vatican II Church.

But we now hear from a few murmuring bishops that the Church must address Biden’s unworthy reception of Communion. “US Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking Communion,” reads a recent AP headline. Nothing concrete, however, is likely to come from these complaints. The U.S. bishops, as a whole, lack the will to withhold Communion from Biden, even though canon law says that they not only have the right but the duty to do so. Canon 915 “obliges the minister of Holy Communion to refuse the Sacrament” to those in “manifest grave sin.”

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The U.S. bishops, as a whole, lack the will to withhold Communion from Biden, even though canon law says that they not only have the right but the duty to do so. Canon 915 “obliges the minister of Holy Communion to refuse the Sacrament” to those in “manifest grave sin.”

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[The Right Edge]

Boy! this is hard one. Pedophiles in league with baby killers. Just imagine THAT.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Good article; Sad read.

[Jeff Chandler]

The problem is that long ago the hierarchy was infiltrated with filthy commie perverts.

[hinckley buzzard]

Catholic bishops are about the equivalent of careerist congressmen. They are not going to jeopardize a cushy sinecure lifestyle by rocking the boat. Besides which, they really do not much care about orthodoxy.

[Joe Boucher]

What, “withhold Communion from Biden,”?
The Catholic Church abandoned its role as a moral outfit.
Can’t slam Biden even if he is all in on abortion.
Can’t stand against LGBT or whatever freak show as the Catholic church needs their donations to pay for all the judgements against is preachers for their criminal behavior.
Catholic Church take a stand for morality? not hardly.

[MurphsLaw]

You can stop clutching your pearls .... GOD IS IN CONTROL...
NOT the bishops- not the Curia- and NOT the Pope...

Wring your hands all you want over this phony politician and others who leverage there political position(like the Pharisees) against God's desire... But it is THEIR vainglory that they do so...

Today hundreds of million Catholics ALL OVER THE WORLD received the Body,Blood Soul and Divinity of Christ as HE ALWAYS wants for us...millions of those baptized into the church wrongly present themselves to the sacrament accepting abortion, homosexuality, adultery, poor ethical performance in their professions...etc. It HAS ALWAYS BEEN that way FROM THE BEGINNING... that is why St. PAUL WARNED US FROM THE BEGINNING:

“Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.” (1 Cor 11:27-30)

Just because they can deceptively present themselves to the Foot the Cross for the Eucharist...it DOES NOT MEAN they are absolved of their deception - even though they say or know in their heart - as God does -IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE for them to change their sinful nature by having the Christ Life be within them... Phony only goes so far....

Remember: Did Christ not give Judas,- one he Chose, and he was the devil - the Eucharist at the Last Supper??? IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN FROM THIS WAY FROM THE BEGINNING THAT THE BURDEN is one the one who receives and replies to "The Body of Christ" with "Amen"...NO ONE ELSE....

20 In like manner the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.

21 But yet behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
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[Just mythoughts]

Christ declared that all but the elect would fall for mass deception... The Heavenly Father knows who is playing what role ... There is a continuum of ‘examples’ given as to the script that would be played... Even that Roman appointed ‘high priest’ was known way back when Psalms 22 was penned. Why even in Acts at Pentecost ‘Peter’ gave a ‘key’ as to what would unfold... cited Joel the prophet ... and what will take place...

[Marchmain]

See newly posted article on Bp Cordileone in SF.

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I had seen that article. Thanks.

It’s encouraging. I hope he also orders his priests to refuse Pelosi Holy Communion.