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Catholic Group Calls on Biden to Denounce Vandalism, Violence Against Churches
freebeacon ^ | AUGUST 7, 2020 | Graham Piro

Posted on 08/09/2020 7:08:32 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

A Catholic political advocacy group is calling on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to speak out on a rash of violence and vandalism against churches across the nation.

"Catholic churches across America are literally burning, and Joe Biden has said nothing. Leading members of the Democratic Party have fueled a climate of hate against Catholics, and these attacks have now led to acts of vandalism and violence," CatholicVote president Brian Burch said Thursday.

"These attacks on the Church raise serious questions about the commitment of Joe Biden, a self-professed Catholic, to stand up to the rising climate of anti-Catholicism across the country."

Between July 10 and July 16, Catholic institutions from Massachusetts to Colorado reported several instances of vandalism, with some acts endangering the lives of congregants. In Florida, a 24-year-old man set fire to a church while several congregants were inside preparing to celebrate Mass. Police arrested the man and charged him with attempted second-degree murder and arson.

Statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary have also been desecrated by vandals in Colorado and in other locations on the East Coast.

Protesters also pulled down statues of Junipero Serra, a Spanish Catholic priest who founded several missions in California. Pope Francis declared Serra a saint in 2015, which sparked pushback from critics who claimed that Serra's legacy was linked to the abuse of indigenous peoples in California.

Biden's fellow Democrat, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), drew criticism by using a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who spent more than a decade ministering to a Hawaiian leper colony before dying of leprosy himself, as an example of "patriarchy and white supremacist culture."

Ocasio-Cortez defended herself on Twitter by arguing she did not say Father Damien was a "bad figure," but instead was trying to draw attention to the fact that the "huge supermajority of statues in the Capitol are white men."

Biden has made his Catholic faith a theme of his political career. He called it a "bedrock foundation of my life" after President Trump said Biden would "hurt God" as president.

But many of Biden's political positions contradict the Roman Catholic Church's teachings, including his pro-choice stance on abortion. Last year Biden's public support for abortion caused a Catholic priest to deny him the Eucharist at a parish in South Carolina.

Until the beginning of his presidential campaign, Biden consistently supported the Hyde Amendment to ban federal funding of abortion. He reversed that position last year, saying he opposed the measure because "times have changed."

The Biden campaign hired a director of faith engagement who worked on the 2012 Obama campaign. He acknowledged the difficulty of peeling off evangelical support from Trump, saying the campaign is "going to go after every vote, but I do not think we will suddenly win the evangelical vote with 80 percent."

Trump enjoys high levels of support from Evangelical voters, but his hold on Catholic voters is less stable. Thirty-six percent of Catholics said they approve of Trump's presidency, according to a June survey. Forty-seven percent of white Catholics said they approve, while just 20 percent of Hispanic Catholics said the same.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; catholics; churches; vandalism

1 posted on 08/09/2020 7:08:32 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Biden’s fellow Democrat, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), drew criticism by using a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who spent more than a decade ministering to a Hawaiian leper colony before dying of leprosy himself, as an example of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”


2 posted on 08/09/2020 7:08:48 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Many of Biden’s political positions contradict the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings, including his pro-choice stance on abortion


3 posted on 08/09/2020 7:10:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: annalex

bmp


4 posted on 08/09/2020 7:14:01 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Did you send him a check, first?


5 posted on 08/09/2020 7:15:07 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: MarvinStinson

Biden is a “Kennedy Catholic.” He may say he is a Catholic but he operates in direct opposition to the teachings of the Church.

He may go to Mass occasionally, but that means nothing. You can put a cat in the oven but that don’t make it a biscuit.


6 posted on 08/09/2020 7:15:14 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: MarvinStinson

In Biden’s pathological mind, any abomination performed by an individual is absolved as long as that individual self identifies as a Democrat.


7 posted on 08/09/2020 7:18:17 AM PDT by allendale
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To: MarvinStinson

Why is the request not for ALL vandalism?


8 posted on 08/09/2020 7:19:14 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Biden doesn’t want to lose his Antifa and BLM supporters.


9 posted on 08/09/2020 7:33:33 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MarvinStinson

This Biden cannot do. He’d be violating the orthodoxy of his deranged minions. He can’t defend, “the thing.”


10 posted on 08/09/2020 7:38:20 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and youÂ’ll eventually fall in to some ocean and die anyway.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Biden denounces church vandalism..............church replies ok, we will vote for you


11 posted on 08/09/2020 8:01:10 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: MarvinStinson

Unfortunately, because of the destruction wrought by the Satan Council (1962-1965), the so-called Catholic Church is no more Catholic than Joe Biden!


12 posted on 08/09/2020 9:14:36 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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Biden: 1) I’m a Catholic so all of you vote for me, hear me?

2) I am all in for unrestricted abortions so vote for me, feminists.

3) I won’t offend the BLM and AOC/Bernie voters out of caution for my own interests

4) You Catholics in the churches that may be vandalized or even burned to the ground——you guys are on your own.


13 posted on 08/09/2020 10:22:51 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Biden: 1) I’m a Catholic so all of you vote for me, hear me?

2) I am all in for unrestricted abortions so vote for me, feminists.

3) I won’t offend the BLM and AOC/Bernie voters out of caution for my own interests

4) You Catholics in the churches that may be vandalized or even burned to the ground——you guys are on your own.


14 posted on 08/09/2020 10:22:51 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Church teaching, not really the issue, it’s larger than that. Biden rejects the sanctity of human life. You don’t have to be Catholic to see that abortion is always wrong.


15 posted on 08/09/2020 11:02:00 AM PDT by Marchmain (Salve Regina)
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To: MarvinStinson

Biden will denounce the vandalism and violence if and only if his handlers tell him.


16 posted on 08/09/2020 5:47:41 PM PDT by Salman (The Democrats are no longer preparing for the election. They are preparing for the revolution.)
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