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HHS, the Tip on Biden’s Spear Against Christians The GOP decries Becerra’s dismantling of religious freedom protections.Joe Biden spent much of his first year undoing the policies of his predecessor. Biden has taken special relish in wiping out Trump’s protections for the religious. Christians in particular have a target on their backs under Biden. He routinely calls them “discriminatory” for simply upholding historic teachings of Christianity.Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services is the tip on his spear against Christians. In December, Republican senators and congressmen sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra blasting him for his attempts to...

Biden’s Ultimate Plan to Thwart Religious FreedomIt goes far beyond Obama’s contraceptive mandate.Joe Biden’s secularism pervades the federal government. He is rooting out all the rules and regulations that his predecessor established in defense of religious freedom. Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescinded Donald Trump’s rule protecting religious foster care and adoption agencies. Biden seeks to cut off federal funding to any such agencies that do not conform to his LGBTQ agenda.Xavier Becerra, Biden’s HHS Secretary, dismissed Trump’s rule as “a blanket use of religious exemptions against any person or blank checks to allow...

Joe Biden Sends $5 Million to UN to Fund Portable Devices to Kill Babies in Abortions Around the WorldJoe Biden’s administration just gave $5 million taxpayer dollars to a United Nations program that provides deadly abortion drugs and devices to women across the world.The U.S. Department of State announced the new funding Monday for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Supplies program.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman praised the program for “empowering women and girls, including by promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights, advances human rights, gender equality and global health.”UNFPA Supplies provides maternal health care supplies and contraception...

Biden Taps Heterodox Catholic to Represent US at Vatican Joe Donnelly is Biden’s idea of a sound Catholic. In early October, Joe Biden nominated Joe Donnelly, a former Indiana Senator, to serve as his ambassador to the Vatican. News coverage of the nomination has been misleading. “Biden nominates pro-life Democrat Donnelly as new Vatican ambassador,” says National Catholic Reporter. Donnelly is not pro-life, at least not in any consistent sense. “He has voted with Planned Parenthood Action Fund 67 percent of the time since he’s been in Congress,” reported the Indianapolis Star in 2018.Like Biden, Donnelly is a Democrat first...

Biden Judges Will Eviscerate Religious FreedomCan the First Amendment survive under this regime?“I think we’re seeing a common DNA run through the Obama [judicial] nominees, and that’s the ACLU chromosome,” observed Jeff Sessions, then-senator from Alabama, in 2009. Sessions was right. Obama stacked the courts with ACLU-style secularists. The First Amendment took a beating under their misrule.Obama’s first nominee to the courts, David Hamilton, was an ACLU board member whose previous rulings included telling the Indiana legislature that its prayers could mention “Allah” but not Jesus Christ. Another typical Obama appointment to the courts was Michael Urbanski, a Virginia judge...

Joe Biden: God’s servant first or our nation’s ‘Heretic in Chief?’Biden’s public response to the Texas Heartbeat Act, is an 'axe laid to the roots' of what is a foundational moral teaching of the Catholic Church. (Priests for Life) – At midnight Sept. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court formally denied the request to block the Texas Heartbeat Act.The act, now a law, requires abortionists to screen for a fetal heartbeat and prohibits abortion if a heartbeat can be heard. The law only allows exceptions for cases of medical emergency and it is already saving lives.As LifeSiteNews reported: “NBC News reported...

Biden has violated fundamental Catholic teaching at least 32 times, report to bishops saysThe Biden administration has violated core Church teaching on at least 32 occasions in less than five months, the Catholic League found in a new report sent to all American bishops.June 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A new report by the Catholic League has identified at least 32 times that Joe Biden has violated fundamental Catholic moral teaching since being inaugurated.The report, which was sent to the U.S. bishops, “outlines many instances where [Biden’s] decision-making on important moral issues is at variance with established Catholic teachings,” Catholic League...

Pope Francis and the Pro-Abortion President (of Argentina)COMMENTARY: The visit of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández to Pope Francis on Thursday was curious — and embarrassing — on several levels.When Pope Francis thinks about Catholic politicians who promote abortion, it is likely that his first thought is about the president — not of the United States, but of his home country, Argentina. In a week where the duties of Catholic legislators regarding abortion was at the top of Vatican news, the visit of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández to Pope Francis on Thursday was curious on several levels.It was the first...

The Vatican Defends Biden on CommunionEt tu, Brute? This pontificate is rightly seen as a repudiation of the restorationist priorities of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than on the matter of long-neglected canon law. Discussions about it had intensified under those two previous pontificates. It appeared, for example, that the Church, after many years of laxity, was on the cusp of finally applying canon law to pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Pope Benedict XVI, who was on record favoring a denial of Communion to them, spoke of the “pseudo-pastoral” claims made by progressive churchmen...

Globalist Pope Francis Defends Joe Biden Over Abortion Policies – Says Plan by US Bishops to Rebuke Him Might Look “Divisive” – But Same Pope a Frequent Critic of TrumpBut this same Marxist pope holds his tongue in criticism of Obama or Joe Biden. KTLA reported:The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights.The strong words of caution came in a letter from Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect...

Jen Psaki Defends Selling Aborted Baby Parts for Research: It’s “Investing in Science”During a press briefing today, EWTN reported Owen Jensen pointed out the the nation’s Catholic bishops and “the leaders of the president’s own faith” have condemned Biden’s recent order forcing Americans to fund research with aborted baby parts with their taxpayer dollars.Psaki said “the White House respectfully disagrees” with the Catholic Church on the issue, even though the media and the White House have spent months declaring Biden to be a strong, churchgoing Catholic.As LifeNews.com reported earlier this month, Joe Biden will make Americans fund research using body...

Joe Biden’s First 100 Days: Scandalous Actions on Abortion from Our Second Catholic PresidentPresident Biden cannot claim to be both a faithful Catholic and an abortion champion. He cannot have it both ways.President Joe Biden’s actions on abortion within his first 100 days follow a predictable pattern for recent Democratic presidents, but directly counter the Catholic Church’s teachings on life. The Biden administration has worked at breakneck speed to rescind previous pro-life protections and enact aggressive abortion policies – moves applauded by Planned Parenthood and mourned by the Catholic faithful in America; the second Catholic U.S. president has directly...