Posted on 01/26/2021 4:54:12 PM PST by ebb tide
President Joe Biden attended Mass on Sunday where a priest criticized President Donald Trump for not being pro-life because he enforced the death penalty.
Biden also received communion during the service at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. even though he wants to expand abortions and force taxpayers to pay for unborn babies’ abortion deaths. Just two days earlier, Biden celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by promising to “codify” the pro-abortion ruling into federal law
At the Mass Sunday, Jesuit Fr. William Kelley condemned Trump because his administration oversaw the execution of 13 death row inmates in the last few months of his presidency.
According to the National Catholic Reporter, Kelley praised the “enthusiasm” that pro-lifers show at the national March for Life each year in Washington, D.C.
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However, the priest said pro-life Catholics need to focus more on protecting the right to life for people on death row, not just unborn babies.
“In fact, they focus almost exclusively on strategies to eliminate abortion. While the laudable effort to protect life in the womb is an essential element of the church’s doctrine, it does not exhaust our concern for human life. Our concern for the sacredness of life must also include the quality of life after birth,” he said.
Kelley expressed “horror” that the Trump administration hastily allowed five convicted death row inmates to be put to death just prior to Biden’s inauguration. He slammed Trump for “breaking with a 130-year-old precedent of pausing executions amid a presidential transition,” according to the report.
“Every human being has the right to enjoy the fruits of God’s creation through access to food, housing and basic medical care,” he continued. “Additionally, the church’s defense of the sanctity of life demands that we continue to grapple with such complicated issues as human suffering at the end of life and ethical ways to punish people who commit serious crimes. The sacredness of life certainly encompasses these issues, too.”
Kelley told the Reporter that he did not know Biden would be at Mass until about an hour before it began.
Biden also received communion that day – despite warnings from a number of bishops and priests that he is supporting a “grave moral evil” that has “resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.”
About 900,000 unborn babies are aborted every year in America, and about 62 million have been aborted since 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court forced states to legalize abortion on demand.
Biden’s plans and the people leading his administration are radically pro-abortion.
If Biden does what he promised, abortions could increase across America. Not only does he plan to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law in case the Supreme Court overturns it, he also wants to end the life-saving Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to pay for elective abortions.
In April, Biden went so far as to call the killing of unborn babies an “essential medical service” during the coronavirus pandemic. His health care plan would expand abortions as well by forcing insurance companies to cover abortions as “essential” health care under Obamacare.
He also promised to undo all of President Donald Trump’s progress for life, including restoring funding to the billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood.
On religious freedom, Biden’s position also is deeply troubling. Biden has endorsed anti-religious freedom policies that would force nuns, religious charities and hospitals to violate their deeply-held beliefs by funding the killing of unborn babies in abortions and potentially even by helping to facilitate their deaths. He also promised to restore an Obama-era mandate that would force the nuns with Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers to fund contraception, including types that may cause abortions, in their employee health insurance plans.
But the millions of babies Joey helped murder..Meh....
Well, the guy needs to study Scripture more.
The death penalty was mandated BY GOD for certain crimes.
Anyone who doesn’t like it can take up the issue with Him.
LOL. This Protestant feels for you ebb. Just as we have our Episcopalians and snake handlers you’ve got your Jesuits and Benedict sycophants. Well, 1/12 of Jesus’ own congregation was false Christian so I doubt any of us will ever do better than that.
This so-called priest doesn’t understand that Almighty God believes in the death penalty: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Ezekiel 18:4 (KJV) But then, how many priests know anything about the Bible?
Something very few stop to consider.
People should embrace their hypocrisy.
How many babies got a fair trial before they were killed?
“save murderers”?
Hell, Bernie Sanders wants them to vote and wants them to vote Democrat!
Both the old and new testaments affirm the use of the death penalty. I’m not sure we as Christians are affirmatively called upon to implement it (as the Jews were) but you can’t use scripture as an argument against it.
Do they train these guys in simple logic?
Jesuit Fr. William Kelley delibertly mixes execution for the act of murder with the argument against murder of unborn children. A grown individual with the mental capacity is 100& guilty of the murder of an individual who has a right to live. He deserves to be executed. An abortionist is a grown individual with the mental capacity is 100& guilty of the murder of an individual who is fighting for the right to live. He also deserves to be executed. Jesuit Fr. William Kelley is a twisted individual himself! How can a man not see this?
Seems Shakespeare, didn't play the fool when portraying real life.
Hypocrisy cast in the robes of a shepard who sees good where there is evil an evil where there is good.
I fear my judgement out of my own failings but rest in the sure knowledge of my Savior, Jesus.
but to proclaim the bastardization of the gospel....
I would think that some of these religious types are going to be hating death.
Perhaps the good father should go to an abortion facility and see first hand how an innocent baby is ripped to pieces or even brought out of the womb to have it’s spine cut or just left to die.
The Torah decrees death for wanton murder. The Nazarene himself declared that every jot and tittle of the Torah would be in effect until the end of time. No sincere Biblical Christian can be pro abortion. -Matt. 5:17
Whoever attends this guy’s church needs to get out of Dodge sooner rather than later.
And the Catholic church wonders why Catholics are leaving and going to non-denoms or evangelical churches. This news story says it all.
Sometimes I wonder if these “priests” have actually ever thumbed through The Bible.
But murdering children in the womb, that’s all good.
This man will reap his eternal burning reward.
Obviously not. It would appear to me, to be a case, of one calling good evil, and evil good. Woe unto that clown.
Yeah - you see all sorts of people protesting outside a prison prior to an execution but if you do the same at an abortion clinic you’re arrested.
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