Posted on 11/04/2019 7:51:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden is out pulling rank.
In response to a little priest in South Carolina denying him Holy Communion for advocating pro-abortion positions inconsistent with Church teaching, the former vice president and Democratic Party presidential frontrunner made it clear he didn't deal with pipsqueaks.
Asked about the incident, Lifesite News reported Biden's response:
“It’s not a position that I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father, who gives me Communion.”
So instead of thinking about the priest's position and offering some kind of contemplative thought, Biden declared it was all O.K. to be advocating for abortion from his position, complete with public funding, because the pope gave him Communion. Despite the fact that even the pope is a priest and Communion is dispensed by priests with equal weight, even if a priest is tainted, Biden seems to be saying that because the pope gave him Communion instead of the priest, that proves the righteousness of his position.
In other words, he's got connections.
He completely sidestepped the issue the priest as concerned about, which was Biden's abortion advocacy under color of Catholicism. Instead of address that, he pulled rank, reminding everyone that he used to be vice president and he's still got connections.
Biden's response was roughly parallel to that of a Mafia don justifying himself after killing rivals on weekdays that he too deserves Communion on Sunday, (something the Church opposes) so he'll get it, too.
But it also had an elitist element. Who is this troublesome little priest to bother him when he's got the pope in his tree? As Joe Biden's trough-feeding through his son Hunter Biden has demonstrated, Joe's in good with the elites.
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Says a lot about the current pope too.
A decade ago Nancy Pelosi declared herself a greater Catholic authority than the Pope on whether use of birth control was wrong.
Son of a B1t@h if they didn’t fire that little priest in South Carolina.
Just like Slow Joe pulled rank to get his druggie son big paychecks from Ukraine and China. Nice.
Outrages but the sad part is that it is true.
He's right about that.
And if your name was Kennedy you could always get an annulment.
Sadly Joe is right. This is how the Catholic Church rolls.
REALLY? I hadn't heard that. Is that true?
Your statement is inaccurate.
The Vatican reversed the annulment of Joseph P. Kennedy II's marriage to Sheila Rauch.
I believe that's called "scandal"(sorry Joe, pulling rank doesn't cut it):
"2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. the person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.
2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.""
I don’t think he should take communion, but not for the same reason the priest says.
He’s only fooling himself.
Commie popie Frankie (CPF) supports everything PedoJoe does.
God is amused by Bidens buffoonery.
The ImPopester would give communion to the Devil himself if it advanced the agenda of the NWO.
Don’t let facts get in the way of Buckeye when he’s sniping at Catholics. His is the only Church made up of perfect men.
I’d say Joe is right this time
So the Vatican can be rolled with enough public pressure.
That doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence.
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