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    Here's Why Media Calls Biden A 'Devout Catholic' According To Theologians, Commentators


    Here's Why Media Calls Biden A 'Devout Catholic' According To Theologians, Commentators
    Mary Margaret Olohan
    February 02, 2021
    Here’s Why Media Calls Biden A ‘Devout Catholic’ According To Theologians, Commentators | The Daily Caller

    Those who call President Joe Biden a "devout Catholic" may do so in attempts to suggest that "Catholicism is indistinguishable" from liberal ideology,
    a professor of theology told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    "When a U.S. President cloaks himself in the outward signs of Catholic identity in order to expand access to abortion, or to use executive power to enforce a gender ideology
    that will inevitably threaten the freedom of the Church in this country, what you have before you is a Trojan Horse," Dr. Chad Pecknold, an associate professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, told the DCNF.

    An examination by the DCNF found that major media outlets and reporters frequently celebrate Biden's Catholicism as "devout" without noting the significance of his divergence from Catholic teaching. Yet outlets and reporters also criticized the Catholicism of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for her adherence to certain Catholic principles.

    "What we are seeing is not something new, but something very old, and very ugly," Dr. Patrick Deneen, a professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, told the DCNF.

    Redefining Catholicism To Match Liberal Beliefs

    According to Deneen, Roman Catholic Americans have long found themselves at odds with non-Catholic, predominantly Protestant countrymen since Catholics look to the pope for ultimate direction — a figure who "commanded an allegiance that transcended national boundaries," Deneen said.

    American Catholics eventually sought acceptance in two ways, Deneen said: they either accepted that religious beliefs were private and had no bearing on public order, or they redefined their faith "in accordance with dominant liberal beliefs."

    "While often at odds with Catholic teaching, such beliefs could be called 'Catholic' because it accorded with the widely accepted liberal view that religious belief was entirely a matter of private conscience," Deneen said.

    Biden and many other Catholic Democrats have "gravitated" to this idea, according to Deneen, who said it is not surprising that the press celebrates this conformity since most media conforms "entirely to the dominant assumptions of liberalism."

    The New York Times sparked a backlash on Jan. 23 when it claimed that "President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century," and tweeted that "a different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies."

    The Times story also suggested that Biden's policies mirrored those of the Holy Father, writing that "Mr. Biden's policy priorities reflect those of Pope Francis, who has sought to turn the church's attention from sexual politics to issues like environmental protection, poverty and migration."

    The publication did not mention Biden's apparent departure from Catholic teaching on abortion or note that Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned abortion.

    'It's Not Catholic To Be Catholic'

    The Times piece "perfectly encapsulates the liberal lie that 'it's not Christian to be Christian,'"
    Pecknold told the DCNF, "or rather, in this case 'it's not Catholic to be Catholic, but it is Catholic to be a Woke Democrat.'"

    "For the next four years, as they expand abortion and prosecute nuns, we'll be hearing this neat fiction that Democrats aren't anti-Catholic, but the beloved community itself," Pecknold said. .....








    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    "For the next four years, as they expand abortion and prosecute nuns, we'll be hearing this neat fiction that Democrats aren't anti-Catholic, but the beloved community itself," Pecknold said. .....

    Here's the deal. The RCC with it's sexual wickedness through the centuries, not only do they NEED legalized abortion to be there for them, they have long lost the right to speak against it.

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