Bp. Robert McElroy
Posted on 10/16/2020 6:16:56 PM PDT by ebb tide
SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Bishop Robert McElroy is again going to bat for the Democratic Party.
Bp. Robert McElroy
(Photo: Chris Stone)
During a webinar hosted Tuesday by St. Mary's College — located near the University of Notre Dame — the San Diego prelate equated pro-life issues with saving the ozone.
"Catholic social teaching," Bp. McElroy claimed, "calls us to protect both the life of unborn children and the sustainability of our planet that is the prerequisite for all human life."
The full text of McElroy's remarks was published by theologically dissident National Catholic Reporter.
Without mentioning Joe Biden by name, McElroy defended the debunked idea that Biden is a Catholic in good standing.
"I feel compelled," Bp. McElroy said, "to address one very sad dimension of the election cycle we are witnessing — the public denial of candidates' identity as Catholics because of a specific policy position they have taken."
"Such denials are injurious because they reduce Catholic social teaching to a single issue," McElroy opined. "But they are offensive because they constitute an assault on the meaning of what it is to be Catholic."
Bishop McElroy's comments come after other Catholic clergy have spoken out against Biden.Tweet
"Being Catholic means participating in the sacramental life of the Church," the 66-year-old San Diego bishop went on to say. "Being a Catholic means trying to transform the world by the light of the gospel. To reduce that magnificent, multi-dimensional gift of God's love to a single question of public policy is repugnant and should have no place in public discourse."
Bishop McElroy's comments come after other Catholic clergy have spoken out against Biden, saying he and other pro-abortion Democrats are not Catholics in good standing.
Bp. Richard Stika, Bp. Thomas Tobin and Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee said on Twitter in August, "Don't understand how Mr. Biden can claim to be a good and faithful Catholic as he denies so much of Church teaching especially on the absolute child abuse and human rights violations of the most innocent, the not yet born."
Stika stated in a follow-up tweet, "And he also praises his sidekick [running mate Kamala Harris] who has shown time and time again in senate hearings that she is an anti-Catholic bigot."
Earlier in August, Bp. Thomas Tobin criticized Biden as not authentically Catholic, saying in a tweet, "First time in awhile that the Democratic ticket hasn't had a Catholic on it."
In like manner, Fr. Dwight Longenecker referred to Biden as a "fake Catholic."
Wisconsin priest Fr. James Altman spoke out against pro-abortion "Catholic" Democrats in a viral video in late August, saying, "You cannot be a Catholic and be a Democrat — period. Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches."
In the Tuesday webinar, Bp. McElroy claimed the three issues a Catholic voter must consider are abortion, climate change and racism.
In a veiled reference to abortion, he appeared to dismiss pro-lifers as "single-issue" voters, and deemed it "morally legitimate" to vote for either Joe Biden or President Donald Trump.
Emphasizing environmentalism and racism is a drum that Bp. McElroy has beat in the past.
In June 2019, he delivered the keynote address to an event on Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' — a speech that was also published in the National Catholic Reporter.
"The encyclical," Bp. McElroy said in that address, "is a call to arms for those who would rescue our bruised planet from the forces that deplete and destroy it."
Bp. McElroy claimed the three issues a Catholic voter must consider are abortion, climate change and racism.Tweet
Pro-Marxist clergy and their pro-Marxist supporters — many of whom are rallying under the misleading banner "Catholics for Biden" — obscure the former vice president's support for intrinsic evils (like abortion) by equating their moral importance to those of social justice or environmental concerns.
Known as the "seamless garment" theory, this thinking was designed to confuse Catholics. It was popularized by the late Chicago cardinal Joseph Bernardin, an alleged satanist who helped set up a pipeline from South America to ordain practicing homosexuals — many of whom remain in the Church spouting heretical teaching, including support of pro-death Democrats.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has declared abortion the single, pre-eminent issue that should be of concern to Catholic voters. Paragraph 2271 of the Catechism states, "This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. ... You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish."
The Biden-Harris platform supports abortion through all stages of pregnancy and even after birth (infanticide).
Our Lady of Akita; October 13, 1973.
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God should have struck him down with a bolt of lightning for being so arrogant to believe humans can control the weather.
Bishops Collusion
No Matter How Bad You Think the Corruption Is, It’s Worse
Peter Kwasniewski August 15, 2018
https://onepeterfive.com/bad-think-corruption-worse/
The ring of criminal Nancy Boys is the same ring that has been sedulously working for decades to undermine the integrity of the doctrinal, moral, sacramental, liturgical Church. These men – McCarrick, Robert McElroy (Bishop of San Diego), Wuerl, O’Malley, Mahony, Cupich, Tobin, Farrell, Lynch, Weakland, Paglia, Maradiaga, their lovable mouthpiece James Martin, Thomas Rosica, and far too many others, including ones who have passed on to their eternal fate, such as Lyons, Boland, Brom – are the same ones who have destabilized and adulterated catechesis, theology, liturgy, and most obviously the Church’s commitment to the unchanging moral law, as we saw in the Amoris Laetitia debacle and all that surrounded and succeeded it. We must connect the dots and not pretend to be shocked when we see, for example, attempts under way to “re-interpret” Humanae Vitae through a false teaching on conscience, or to do away with clerical celibacy, or to introduce female deacons.
These are not just men of bad moral character; they are apostates, and they are trying to remake the Church in the image of their own apostasy.
The Nancy Boys have conducted their campaign of demolition with a kind of imperial sway. It is not this or that aspect of the Church that is corrupt; the rot is now everywhere. It is a rot on which the McCarrick Ring still sups, like maggots feasting on a corpse. For this reason, to hear well meaning people say Bergoglio must impanel some investigative body to set things right is Alice in Wonderland lunacy. It’s like putting Himmler in charge of Nuremberg.
The difference with the clerical sodomites is that they become professional apostates. It is not enough for them not to believe in the sacraments; they must make others not believe in them as well. They will not stop twisting and mutilating the Church until she blesses their sin, along with many other sins. To achieve their goals, they must wreak havoc on every last aspect of the Church. This is what the faithful must stop – forget about the contemptible bureaucracy of the USCCB with its well heeled lawyers and slick marketeers. We begin to stop the havoc by calling its source by its real name.
McCarrick was not just a predatory sodomite, but an apostate, and all of his “brother bishops” who knew about the double life and still got their pictures taken with him, laughing away at the latest wool pulled over the people’s eyes – you know, the ones who are putting out videos about how unfortunate this is, what a mess, and, you know, it isn’t as bad as people are making it out to be – these are all apostates, too. They’re company men with company cars, driving in a long line to their own burials at the ecumenical cemetery.
The papacy can be set right with a worthy pope. The episcopacy can be strengthened if that worthy pope takes action to depose and defrock bishops across the globe and replace them with men worthy of their offices. The seminaries can be reformed. The Mass of Ages can be restored. Catholic education can be revived. Catechesis can be regenerated (but not, needless to say, with the latest version of the Catechism).
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