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Why Catholics Should Vote for Trump It is not a hard case to make given the alternative. On distinctively Catholic issues, the “Catholic” Joe Biden is batting zero. From abortion to gay marriage to embryonic stem cell research, Biden stands against Church teaching. Were he elected, he would resume the war on Catholics and Christians Barack Obama waged for eight years. Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton put a pause on that assault and gave Catholics some breathing room. Given all of this, one would think the Catholic episcopate might refrain from sniping at Trump. But they haven’t. Democrats first,...

“Racism” Replaces Abortion As “Preeminent Issue” For U.S. Bishops America’s bishops have been struggling to regain their balance ever since the lockdowns began. Financial ruin faced our schools, parishes, even entire dioceses. Catholics everywhere were starving for the sacraments. Recently, a brave few prelates dared to shed the onerous handcuffs imposed by their Blue State governors. Without the government’s permission, they announced that Catholics could return to Mass. They were surprised at the alacrity with which the authorities backed off. Restrictions were slowly easing when George Floyd died a grisly death at the hand of a Minneapolis policeman on the...

[Barf Alert] US Catholic Bishops Praise Supreme Court DACA Decision Archbishop Gomez and Bishop Dorsonville urged President Trump “to strongly reconsider terminating DACA,” citing the plight of immigrant families during the new coronavirus pandemic. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference (USCCB) praised the Supreme Court on Thursday for a decision that keeps the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program intact — for now. “First, to DACA youth, through today’s decision and beyond, we will continue to accompany you and your families. You are a vital part of our Church and our community of faith. We are with you,”...

(Barf Alert from the United States Conference of Socialist Bishops) This Guide was prepared to assist Catholics and people of good will in reflecting on the evil and harm of racism. While this is not a comprehensive list, it provides actionable steps that may assist Catholics to reflect and respond in faith. With the aid of Holy Scripture, Catholic social teaching, and sacred tradition, this is an open invitation to journey toward reconciliation. Racism is evil because it attacks the inherent dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God. The persistence of racism demands our...

Who Cares about the Flock? Do Souls Matter? Who is Challenging Caesar's Discrimination against Religion? Hint -- It's not your local bishop with all the money and power backing him up. Actually, I'm not too surprised about that. When you get buckets of hush money from Caesar it has a chilling effect on your willingness to challenge him -- especially when contributions from the flock are AWOL due to your abandoning them to the apocalypse that wasn't. Sadly, many of our bishops these days are more committed to liberal politics than to the faith. Their priorities are more in line with...

US bishops caught funding radical groups supporting riots, calling for ‘death’ to police It is unclear how support for an end to the rule of law in the United States fits into the Catholic Campaign for Human Development's mission. PARTLOW, Virginia, June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A new investigation by the Lepanto Institute has revealed that the bishops in the United States, through their Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), are funding organizations that support riots and whose goal includes not only defunding police, but even killing them. According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the CCHD...

Wilton Gregory Is Revolting But he's not the only one. On Tuesday, when President Donald Trump went to the Pope John Paul II National Shrine, the religious hypocrites came falling out of the rafters. Chief among them was D.C. archbishop Wilton Gregory. Listen to the raging hypocrisy of a statement he felt compelled to issue in view of the president's visit: "I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people, even...

Does Archbishop Gregory’s Objection to Trump Break New Ground? The controversy over President Donald Trump’s visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine highlighted a potential new development in the Catholic Church’s relationship with the presidency in the United States. Prominent voices, led by the local ordinary, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., thought that the visit should have been canceled; moreover, that it was a betrayal of Catholic values not to have canceled it. No presidential visit to a Catholic institution has roused such controversy since the University of Notre Dame conferred an honorary doctorate on President Barack...

[Barf Alert] Silence For Years On Pro-Abort Dems . . . But See Fumes From D.C. Archbishop When GOP’s Trump Angers Him After bad Catholic Vice President Joe Biden claimed to be a practicing Catholic at the March 30, 2016, White House Easter prayer breakfast, I promptly contacted the media-relations office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to obtain a comment. Biden, after all, was a firm opponent of foundational Catholic and Christian beliefs. He favored massive permissive abortion, took credit for persuading President Barack Obama to favor “same-sex marriage,” supported compulsion of religious believers to act against their...

Retract and Apologize Conservative corrects Abp. Gregory ST. LOUIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - A leading conservative is calling on Washington's archbishop to apologize for criticizing President Trump's visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine. In a personal letter, Ed Martin, executive director of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, urged Abp. Wilton Gregory on Tuesday to walk back statements critical of Trump. Questioning the Shrine's decision to host the president, Gregory said he found it "baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles." The Shrine, anticipating criticism, included the following explanation (which...

[Catholic Caucus] Where in THE Heck Are You, Bishops & Cardinals?! Oh my gosh, bishops and cardinals! Why were the special adorations and Rosaries happening left and right during the COVID outbreak, and yet not one of you has suggested this for the insanity going on in our country? What in the heck happened to you? If I missed you, please tap me on the shoulder and let me know, but if you didn’t, it is a HUGE derelict in duty. We should be praying as one for the souls of the many who have now died, everyone from George...

Catholics Fire Back After D.C. Archbishop Attacks Donald Trump A number of prominent Catholics have reacted strongly to a statement by Washington, DC, Archbishop Wilton Gregory denouncing President Trump for visiting a shrine to Pope John Paul II. ..................................................... In a column titled “Baffling and Reprehensible,” Catholic author and journalist Phil Lawler enumerated seven problems underlying the archbishop’s statement, including its blatant partisanship and divisiveness.The archbishop published his “inflammatory statement” without bothering to check the facts, Lawler observes, noting that the president’s visit to the shrine had no connection with the demonstrations but had been planned well ahead to coincide...