Catholics for Biden held its national kickoff call on the evening of Thursday, September 3. It was, predictably, an hour-long attempt to make us all forget that the candidate is implicit in—and his party is devoted to—the vilest crime ever perpetrated against humanity. It was a less than brilliant exercise in misdirection….
Sister Simone Campbell, SSS… was the big-ticket speaker of the night, given the non-appearance of Mr. Biden himself. (Make what you will of the fact that Catholics for Joe Biden cannot seem to count among its ranks Joe Biden.) Sister Simone is a longtime professional activist with a remarkable skill for locating progressive dogma writ in minute script between the lines of magisterial teaching.
Early in her remarks, Sister Simone admonished a large chunk of her audience. “White Catholics have gotten it wrong in the past,” apparently referring to their failure to vote for her preferred, left-wing candidates—and implicitly recalling the understudied doctrine of ethnic infallibility.
As she went on, the would-be nun repeated again and again that Catholics are “multi-issue voters,” a carefully crafted euphemism for “keep killing babies, as long as the government pays for it, and for everything else.” It wasn’t long before the mask came off: “In fact, the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the outlawing of abortion, has never been our faith.” Well, that’s just untrue. There’s no gray area here, and no line-blurring or strategic vagueness. It’s a lie and a scandal, plain and simple. The moral seriousness of the mere possibility that listeners might believe her outrageous claim cannot be overstated.
Throughout, Sister Simone peddled liberally in the left-wing Catholic’s favorite tool—a cartoon depiction of Pope Francis as some hippie warrior for the pet causes of American progressives. She pointed listeners to a website her lobbying group has created, called popefrancisvoter.org. It provides a quiz that purports to compare the respondent’s values with Pope Francis’s, and then to compare both with the respective candidates’ values. Absent, of course, is any reference to the Holy Father’s belief that fighting abortion is the “preeminent issue” in modern politics, or that abortionists are Nazis “with white gloves.” Rather, the nine questions essentially amount to nine variations on “Do you have basic human decency?” with about as much nuance as was on display in Thursday’s call. My result was:
You agree with Biden. Your Catholic Voter Score is 100 percent.
Joe Biden shares your Catholic priorities. His policies will protect people in poverty, the elderly, and migrants and reject racism. You are a Pope Francis Voter, and you must prioritize these sacred issues in the voting booth this November….
The above comes from a Sept. 9 story by Declan Leary in Crisis Magazine.
Those involved in this cabal have appropriated the Catholic Church in an attempt to hijack her teachings to suit their personal political beliefs. These self-identified “Catholics” want a religious stamp of approval on their pro-death agenda, but calling themselves Catholic does not make it so. They should at least have enough respect for the Church to label themselves as former, dissident, lapsed, or excommunicated Catholics, that at least, would be true.
Are you referring to the Jesuits?
Sister Campbell a nun? Earrings, makeup, jewelry, skirts, these are the women from orders in the 1960’s who tossed out their habits and then watched as their orders withered and died a sad slow death. These ladies are in no way nuns anymore they are simply social justice warriors on the Left Wing and have nothing in common with the Roman Catholic Church; how sad is that. You can still keep saying that Vatican II did not call for the elimination of Latin, Gregorian chant, the organ, bells and smells, altar boys, Communion on the tongue while kneeling, Mozart, Palestrina, Hayden, Bach, so you tell me what went wrong because nobody every has the right answer just excuses and saying well, Vatican II was misinterpreted.
A more accurate headline would read: “Spirit” of Vatican II “Catholics” for Biden kickoff call. These people love neither the Church nor their nation.
Romulus Augustus, your common sense is perfect, as always.
What kind of blasphemy is this?
Other issues not touched upon by ‘Sister Campbell’ are religious freedom and of course same sex marriage. I could easily see tax exempt status of Churches being put to question if they don’t agree to perform these marriages.
People such as these thumb their nose at God and suffer nothing for it.
“Sister Campbell” and her fellow, so-called “Nuns” should have been excommunicated many years ago!
Where were the bishops?!
The local ordinary, and those having authority over the speakers at this event, should’ve put their Big Boy vestments on, grabbed their croziers, marched in, and publically called upon each of them to repent.
If they refused, they could canonically excommunicate them on-the-spot.
Fr. James Altman was excoriated for his video post “You can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat.” I would not have said exactly that, yet notice that he did not endorse any candidates or alternative political parties (clergy are prohibited from doing the former by canon law).
That said, an interesting question arose in my mind: would it have been wrong for a priest or bishop in the 1930’s to have said, “You can’t be a good Catholic and a Nazi”?
And, if you think so, why?
(It seems analogous to condemning a political party for its agenda of death today? And, the Democrat Party’s death policies are more public than those of the Third Reich were.)