"During the South Carolina primary, Fr. Robert Morey of Florence denied Biden communion on the grounds he had excommunicated himself by taking the stand he has taken on the killing of the unborn... Had moral truth changed? Did Catholic teaching change? No, Biden changed."
By Patrick Buchanan
As a cradle Catholic and recipient of Notre Dame's Laetare
Medal, Joe Biden is outspoken in declaring that the principles and beliefs of his
Catholic faith guide his public life.
"Joe is a man of faith," was a
recurring theme at the Democratic convention that nominated him to become our
second Catholic president.
Biden has often affirmed the centrality of his
faith to his decisions in public life. In a video released on the eve of the
convention, he credited Pope Francis and the nuns who educated him with making
him the man he is today.
Yet, when the Supreme Court ruled in July that
the Little Sisters of the Poor could not be forced, by an Obamacare mandate, to
provide contraceptives to employees, Biden called the decision
"disappointing."
For Joe has evolved over a half-century. He is
now an all-in Roe v. Wade Catholic who supports a woman's right to abortion and
believes the tax dollars of his fellow Catholics should pay for the abortions
of women who cannot afford them.
This year, he changed his position and came out
against the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of tax dollars to pay for
abortions.
What triggered Joe's renunciation of his past
support for the Hyde Amendment? Primary opponents Elizabeth Warren and Kamala
Harris had battered him for it and Bernie Sanders had given Biden some tutoring
in the new moral law of the Democratic Party.
Said the Vermont socialist, "There is no
middle ground on women's rights." With that cuffing, Biden scurried off
the middle ground and was all in.
Biden's moral journey from right-to-life to pro-abortion Democrat has not gone unnoticed within the Church. A dozen years ago, when Biden was still a senator, a bishop in Scranton, with Joe in mind, declared:
"I will not tolerate any politician who claims to be a faithful Catholic who is not genuinely pro-life. ... No Catholic politician who supports the culture of death should approach Holy Communion."
During the South Carolina primary, Fr. Robert Morey of Florence denied Biden communion on the grounds he had excommunicated himself by taking the stand he has taken on the killing of the unborn.
"Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other, and the Church," said Morey. "Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself out of Church teaching."
Biden also supports the restoration of federal funds for Planned Parenthood, a provider of abortions. Nor is life the only issue on which Biden has taken his leave of the teachings of the Church in which he was raised.
In 1994, Biden voted to cut off federal funds to schools that teach an acceptance of homosexuality. In 1996, he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act
Had moral truth changed? Did Catholic teaching change? No, Biden changed. The Catechism of the Catholic Church still declares "homosexual acts" to be "intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law" and describes "homosexual tendencies" as "objectively disordered."
Biden once believed this, or said he did for
most of his life, for that is the way he campaigned in Delaware and voted in
D.C.
What has changed is the Democratic Party Biden
now heads. The precepts of LGBT now dictate "moral truth" in the
party and platform of Joe Biden who now calls transgender rights "the
civil rights issue of our time."
As Biden has turned his back on the teachings of
the Church in which he was raised, the Church itself is coming under physical
attack by the same radicals besetting civil society.
In Miami, a statue of Christ the Good Shepherd
was lately beheaded. A statue of the Blessed Virgin inside a Boston church was
set on fire, and another was desecrated in Tennessee. In Denver, the same
headless fate befell a statue of St. Jude.
Statues of Fr. Junipero Serra, the priest who
founded 17 missions from San Diego north to San Francisco, when California was
under Spanish rule, have been under constant attack.
In St. Louis, a mounted statue in the city's
Forest Park of the 13th century Saint and King Louis IX, the French monarch for
whom the city was named, who led the Sixth and Seventh Crusades, is under
siege.
Radicals are even demanding that the city's name
be changed.
On right-to-life, the declared position of the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is clear: "Taxpayer dollars should
never fund abortion."
This unequivocal moral stance is being publicly
repudiated and will be rejected, should he win the presidency on Nov. 3, by the
professed believing and practicing Catholic, Joe Biden.
What, if anything, are the U.S. Catholic bishops
going to say about this grave moral issue in the fall election? Or will they
remain silent?
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