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BREAKING: Biden admin sues Texas over heartbeat abortion banDemocrat Attorney General Merrick Garland claims the Texas Heartbeat Act is 'one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear.'WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration launched a federal lawsuit Thursday against Texas over its recently-enacted law that has effectively halted abortions past six weeks in the state, claiming it violates both federal law and longstanding judicial precedent.On September 1, the Texas Heartbeat Act took effect in the Lone Star State. Signed in May by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, the law requires abortionists to screen for a preborn baby’s heartbeat...

Afghan Tragedy Shrivels Prez . . . Will Biden Be Diminished Enough Now For Bishops To Rebuke Him? Would Joe Biden’s newly diminished public image make him realize that he no longer should get away with his public pose of being a practicing Catholic and his sacrilege of receiving the Eucharist while energetically promoting the Culture of Death internationally? Although Biden’s physical and moral impairment already were plain to those who cared about what mattered, dominant leftist media mainly still had portrayed him as a capable politician and admirable man. And these foes of traditional morality were charmed by the...

Biden Overturns Trump Rule Protecting Doctors From Being Forced to Kill Babies in AbortionsIn June 2020, President Donald Trump issued a pro-life rule that will protect pro-life Americans and help save babies from abortion. His administration implemented a rule to block the effects of a dangerous Obamacare provision that could be used to compel doctors to participate in abortions.Today, Joe Biden reversed it.During the trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that revises 2016 provisions of the Obamacare section 1557 rule that had redefined discrimination “on the basis of sex” to include “pregnancy termination.” The...

Biden refuses to mention God in National Day of Prayer addressThe address came two weeks after the Biden regime sued to force Christians to perform ‘sex change’ surgeries and resembles a Christ-less White House Easter message.WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Joe Biden, a self-professed “devout Catholic,” failed to mention God even once during his National Day of Prayer address on Wednesday, instead emphasizing “moral movements” and issues like “racial injustice.”“Throughout our history, Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance,” Biden said, without referring to Christianity or Jesus Christ. “Prayer...

Buying Butchered BabiesBiden ends pro-life policyBiden spokesperson Jen Psaki dismissed on Friday Catholic concerns over fetal tissue harvesting, saying this White House "respectfully disagrees" with Catholic teaching. The pro-life community is disgusted Biden directed the Health and Human Services Department to remove President Trump's ban on fetal tissue harvesting.Lauren Enriquez, deputy media strategist for Students for Life Action:The Biden administration wants us to believe they care about children who are in cages at the border. They want us to believe they care about vulnerable people in our country. The question I have is if you do not care about children...

Biden’s Sham ‘Catholic Social Justice’ He is on the side of exploiting the weak.Joe Biden’s philosophy of “justice” is wholly unconvincing. He is given to lofty pronouncements about justice, even as his policies undermine it. On racial matters, for example, he is not so much eliminating injustices as proposing new ones under the guise of “equity.” His scattershot charges of “systemic racism” punctuate a lack of seriousness about justice. He is using that reckless and unsubstantiated claim to conceal the injustice of reverse racism, for which “critical race theory” is simply a euphemism. His racial policies, though presented in highly...

The Irreligious Priorities of the Biden Administration Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s dismissal of a “hierarchy” of rights is telling.One of the marks of modern liberalism is its tendency to promote invented rights while denying real ones. As the Founding Fathers argued, rights derive not from government but from God, and the test of the legitimacy of a government is whether or not it respects those God-given rights. Modern liberalism’s conception of rights rests on a far different philosophy, one that has its source not in God but in the caprice of central planners, government bureaucrats, overreaching judges, and globalist...

Cardinal Burke floats ‘excommunication’ for Biden over his ‘aggressive’ abortion promotionThe Cardinal said that a politician who claims to be a Catholic and yet openly and aggressively promotes procured abortion is in the state of apostasy.March 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke said that pro-abortion Catholics in public life such as President Joe Biden, who “obstinately and publicly” deny truths of the faith and act against them, must not only be denied Holy Communion but must now face the charge of the “crime of apostasy” where the “canonical penalty” for the guilty is “excommunication.”“Such a person who claims...

Biden and the Disunited Catholic FrontCracks in it keep growing. Joe Biden’s renegade Catholicism is nothing if not bold. It is a distressing and hubristic jumble, an admixture of everything from transgenderism to Marianism. At one moment, Biden is advocating for abortion and dissolving differences between the sexes; in the next moment, he is gushing about Our Lady of Guadalupe and his devotion to the rosary. The media, of course, loves this erratic style of non-threatening religiosity and has rewarded Biden with flattering coverage of his faith. “Not a ‘cardboard politician’: Biden’s faith forges bond with Mexico,” read a recent...

Priest Would Refuse Joe Biden Communion Because He’s Pro-Abortion: “Over My Dead Body, Not Until He Repents”In a deeply emotional message to his congregation, an Arizona priest mourned how President Joe Biden, a supposedly devout Catholic, is working to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions.Father William Kosko of St. Henry’s Parish in Buckeye, Arizona, said he would welcome Biden to attend Mass but not to participate in communion unless he repents, The New American reports.“Over my dead body; not until he repents,” Kosko said. “He’s a public figure. He needs to publicly repent, and we need to pray...

Biden Coerces ChristiansHe treats their tenets as crimes.n 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their religious freedom. Allaying fears they had conveyed in a letter to him, Jefferson wrote that the “principles of the constitution and government of the United States” would permit the religious order to “govern itself according to its own voluntary rules, without interference from the civil authority.”The Ursuline Sisters had been running orphanages, hospitals, and schools in French-controlled Louisiana since 1727. They sought reassurances from Jefferson after his Louisiana Purchase that they would not...

Biden Opposes Religious Freedom at Home and Abroad He calls on his State Department to meddle in the moral and religious affairs of foreign countries.In 2011, Hillary Clinton announced that the promotion of “LGBT rights” abroad formed “a priority of our foreign policy.” She scolded religiously conservative countries for regarding that agenda as a “Western phenomenon.” She instructed diplomats at the State Department to meddle in the moral and religious affairs of those countries. “In our embassies, our diplomats are raising concerns about specific cases and laws,” she said.The Biden administration is picking up where Clinton left off. Biden, who...

Watching the first weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency unfold on TV from her Bronx apartment, Natalia Imperatori-Lee saw a bit of herself in America’s new leader.Like her, a mom of two Catholic school kids, Biden was a regular at Sunday Mass. In clips of him in the Oval Office, she glimpsed the rosary peeking out from his sleeve — reminding her of the prayer beads in the Cuban American home where she grew up. Reading reports of the president’s push to offer legal residency to millions of immigrants, she sensed the church’s teaching to “welcome the stranger among us.”“I’m just...

Biden’s full-tilt transgender pandering dwarfs even the Obama yearsThe LGBT dogma lives loudly in Joe BideFebruary 6, 2021 (Family Research Council) — Joe Biden insisted that his administration would "look like America." If that's true, most Americans are ready for an extreme makeover. A week and a half in, the majority would agree: nothing this White House has done comes even close to resembling their values. Instead, it's been a parade of far-Left extremism that's snuffed out any hope that this president's "whole soul" is actually in "bringing America together." What it's in, as far as the Washington Post can...

Fr. Altman unloads on Biden presidencyWe’re stuck with somebody who is dead set against the entirety of everything that our Catholic Faith professes,' Fr. James Altman said.February 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Following President Joe Biden’s inauguration, LifeSiteNews’s Danielle Zuccaro caught up with Father James Altman to discuss the election and what a Biden presidency might mean for faithful Catholics across America.Fr. Altman, pastor of St. James the Less parish, Lacrosse, Wisconsin, explained to LifeSiteNews that, while he has his “doubts about the validity, grave doubts about the validity” of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, “it is what it...

Joe Biden Tells National Prayer Breakfast to Respect Life Days After Making Americans Fund AbortionsPresident Joe Biden, a pro-abortion Democrat who professes to be Catholic, encouraged Americans to respect their “fellow human beings” Thursday during the National Prayer Breakfast. His comments come days after forcing Americans to fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.The president was one of several Democrat and Republican politicians who spoke during the 69th annual event, which was held virtually this year due to the coronavirus, according to the Catholic News Agency.Biden’s remarks and his first actions as president contrast sharply with those of President Donald Trump...

EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Naumann – US bishops must address scandal of ‘Catholic’ Biden championing abortionBiden’s actions are 'confusing Catholics and non-Catholics regarding the Church’s teaching on the evil of abortion'<KANSAS CITY, Kansas, February 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview (read full interview below) that the bishops of the United States have an “obligation” to act when it comes to the country’s president identifying himself as a devout Catholic while working to expand abortion.“The fact that President Biden identifies himself as a devout Catholic, while working to preserve and expand legalized abortion,...

African prelate laments Biden’s disregard for ‘human dignity’ROME – One of Nigeria’s most powerful prelates has opened up about the spate of clergy kidnappings and murders plaguing the country, the coronavirus, and new US President Joe Biden’s move to increase funding for international abortions.In an interview with Crux, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja said, “It is intriguing that one of Biden’s first official acts is to promote the destruction of human lives domestically and in developing nations.”In Biden’s first few weeks of office, he issued an executive order rescinding the Mexico City Policy, which bans U.S. aid from supporting NGOs...

Joe Biden Calls Himself a “Savior Around the World” for Forcing Americans to Fund Planned ParenthoodPresident Joe Biden once referred to himself as a “savior around the world” while touting his plans to force American taxpayers to fund the killing of unborn babies in abortions, according to a video of a 2019 campaign event.The recently resurfaced video shows Biden speaking at a Planned Parenthood Action forum with other Democratic presidential primary candidates in 2019 in South Carolina.Answering a question from the moderators, Biden began by slamming President Donald Trump for defunding the International Planned Parenthood Federation and other pro-abortion groups...

Pro-life, pro-abortion leaders respond to Biden revoking Mexico City PolicyBiden also withdrew the United States’ signature from the pro-life Geneva Consensus Declaration.<WASHINGTON, D.C., January 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration made good Thursday afternoon on its declaration that it was about to resume sending foreign aid dollars to commit and promote abortions worldwide, provoking strong reactions from both friends and foes of the abortion industry. As announced earlier today, President Joe Biden’s presidential memorandum revokes predecessor Donald Trump’s 2017 policy, which not only reinstated the Mexico City Policy’s ban on foreign aid to groups that committed abortions, but took...