Posted on 12/20/2024 3:19:01 PM PST by ebb tide
Before being shown the door at the White House on January 20 next year, Joe Biden will make one last trip to Italy to spend time with Pope Francis at the latter’s request.
On Thursday, Biden had a phone call with Francis to discuss what the White House called “efforts to advance peace around the world during the holiday season.”
Biden’s team said that during their conversation he “thanked the pope for his continued advocacy to alleviate global suffering, including his work to advance human rights and protect religious freedoms.”
Pope Francis last hosted Biden in 2021, though he met with him during a G7 summit in Italy this June. This year’s visit is scheduled to take place on January 10. Biden will also meet with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella during his trip.
Over the past six years, Francis has notably remained silent on the many public acts and stances Joe Biden has taken against the faith. In fact, he has done the opposite.
After Biden’s 2021 visit to the Vatican, Biden told the media that Francis told him he was a “good Catholic” and that he should “keep receiving Communion.” The Vatican later said in a statement the pair’s meeting focused on climate issues, COVID-19, and caring for migrants.
Biden’s announcement, which was not denied by the Vatican, threw cold water on efforts being made in the U.S. by faithful bishops who were calling for Biden to be denied Holy Communion. The constant practice of the Church is to deny Communion to those in public life who promote evils opposed to Church teaching, like abortion. Washington D.C. bishop Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Chicago’s Blasé Cupich, and others have since said they would do no such thing.
During the run up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Francis infamously implied that Donald Trump was “not Christian” because of his strong support for a border wall with Mexico. Francis also assisted Biden’s campaign in 2020 with the timely release of Fratelli Tutti in October, which endorsed many social justice issues Biden had been campaigning on.
Biden led the U.S. delegation along with Nancy Pelosi to the Vatican for Francis’ inauguration following the 2013 conclave. Francis previously spoke with Biden when he came to the U.S. at the invitation of then-House Speaker John Boehner in 2015. Biden was serving as Barack Obama’s Vice President at the time.
After Biden’s 2021 visit to the Vatican, Biden told the media that Francis told him he was a “good Catholic” and that he should “keep receiving Communion.” The Vatican later said in a statement the pair’s meeting focused on climate issues, COVID-19, and caring for migrants.
Biden’s announcement, which was not denied by the Vatican, threw cold water on efforts being made in the U.S. by faithful bishops who were calling for Biden to be denied Holy Communion.
Ping
Two Socialists . One is Senile and close to bye bye .
Dr Evil Jill is a strict Satanist .
Its comes with her home wrecker background and being a CCP puppet .
I wonder, will Joe have to go through George Soros’s son to see the pope? Bill Clinton did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujo7Ts9Am64
Get his last rites from the Pope hisself.
Two fake Catholics destined for hell very soon.
Chomo knows this is the only pope who would grant him absolution for all his evil and repeated sins. With all the money Chomo Joe has funneled to the corrupt “Catholic Chorities” by opening the flood gate to human smuggling across the border Pope Marx owes him a few indulgences.
Looking for absolution for his life of perversion and crime.
Frankie will tell him “Bro, you’re good”.
I wonder if Joe will ask him to forgive himself for any sins he has committed and also any future sins he might commit.
When usurpers collide.
It was Pope Francis who invited Biden.
I wonder if he’ll ever invite Trump?
So Alex Soros must have ordered the pope to meet with him?
I’m glad that——so far——the TV series They Might Be Saints with Michael O’Neill (and his book of that title)
has not included Joe Biden.
Has to do with the rigorous process of canonization and the reason some wait for years for accepted evidence to be verified.
Hope Pope Francis doesn’t gush over Joe too much and propose the idea for that. I know he will want Joe’s autograph for his heart shaped souvenir book, though.
From sources such as Catholic Vote, June 21, 2021.
Headline:
Some Dems Suggest Stripping Church Tax Exempt Status over Communion Debate
Congressman Jared Huffman, D-CA, has suggested stripping the Catholic Church of its tax exempt status as punishment for not giving Communion to pro-abortion political leaders.
“If they’re going to politically weaponize religion by ‘rebuking’ Democrats who support women’s reproductive choice, then a ‘rebuke’ of their tax-exempt status may be in order,” Huffman tweeted.
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Me:
That idea of denying communion had been floated by some but then was withdrawn and Biden and Pelosi were welcomed to communion. The threat worked well. One loophole was the two of them did not hold medical instruments or the baby at the actual abortions and thus their enabling of abortions with funding from US taxpayers and laws to permit abortions were
“indirect” or “remote” so Biden and Pelosi were okay.
In a 2017 interview with The Washington Post's Michelle Boorstein, Huffman identified as a humanist and said "I suppose you could say I don't believe in God." Previously in his career, he had declined to discuss his religious beliefs or apply any label when asked.[44] Huffman is the only elected member of the U.S. House who openly describes himself as religiously unaffiliated and a secular humanist. Huffman is also the only member of Congress who openly rejects the existence of God.
Will Joe drop another deuce, like last time?
Creepy guy.
When I was working at the university library a young woman student made a complaint that we subscribed to the journal Church and State. She said any magazine involving church should be banned from libraries.
That magazine is anti-religion and anti-conservative. The stories in it include “Going to extremes: New House Speaker Mike Johnson has a long history of promoting Christian Nationalism” and “Project 2025: A Christian Nationalist playbook outlines a broad scheme to overthrow American democracy and install a theocracy.”
You can’t please some people.
Thanks for sharing that. Hadn’t seen it before. It doesn’t surprise me. RATS think they are above God in every way.
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