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.
And He never complained about the death penalty. But if you cause one of His children to stumble... He brings down rage.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this “priest” actually performs abortions on the side for some walkin’ around money. You know, that poverty vow thing probably gets old.
Almost tagline worthy. Under consideration.
not all protestants are heretics but the catholic church with its idol worshipping gay union supporting leadership is certainly apostate. And the Jesuit’s are catholic recognized as so by the catholic church. They are all yours ebb
When I became Catholic, my prolife anti-abortion commitment was strengthened. I had been pro death penalty, but I’m willing to let go of that and accept instead a life sentence without parole. You won’t find me outside of a prison screaming against the death penalty, but if I was on the jury of a capital murder case, I would vote for life without parole.
Sure they are. That’s why they’re called “protestants”.
St. Thomas was a Catholic, not a protestant.
“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.” Job 10:8-11
“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch” Leviticus 18:21
“I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.” Psalm 22:10
“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.” Psalm 71:6
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalm 139:13-16
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” Luke 1:41
“As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.” Luke 1:44
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” Matthew 18:10
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” Luke 17:2
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, “ Galatians 1:15
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Revelation 18:21
Life in a place like SuperMax ... hell on earth.
An excellent selection of verses. Thanks for sharing.
God knows when Life starts (as He would - being the Great Creator).
Sure they are. That’s why they’re called “protestants”.
Potestants" - a term so broad it is inaccurate as a description as often used by Catholics - originally denoted a class of Christians who did not do as you are supposed to do, to allow themselves to be led, and like a docile flock to follow the Pastors," (VEHEMENTER NOS, an Encyclical of Pope Pius X promulgated on February 11, 1906) and instead determined which Catholic church teaching were valid based upon their understanding of what the most ancient (Scripture) church teaching said. However, since you and you comrades with their various sects also do the same in rejecting the current living pope Francis and certain modern teachings, and hold to another pope (in your case an unnamed one) as being the valid pope, then you also are a type of divisive Protestant. True faithful Catholics obey the commands and exhortations such as stated by many popes. such as,
'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)
You’re anti war as well?
I hate it when Libs equate evil criminals with innocent babies in the womb.......
This is rich, coming from the historically murderous RC Church.
Jesuit= CINO = who cares what this man says?
Father Kelley is violating Canon law by supporting a viciously pro abortion anti- Catholic in the public arena. He is assisting a man he knows to be in grave error and unrepentant, in propagating his satanic message.
Well actually it refers to “protestors” where in people were protesting the accesses of the RCC and the awakening due to Martin Luther.
Death penalties carried out since 1973: 1,532
Abortions since 1973: 59,902,500
YHvH said Do Not Murdershalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
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