A Lepanto Institute investigation documents, using Federal Election Commission records, the contributions of Monsignor Robert Boxie III to ActBlue and to Democratic candidate Amanda Edwards, a supporter of abortion and gender ideology. The same prelate who has just accused the Church of racism.
Monsignor Robert Boxie III, recently appointed auxiliary bishop of Washington by Leo XIV, has funded pro-abortion politicians and the Democratic Party’s largest fundraising platform with his own money. This is revealed by an investigation from the Lepanto Institute, the U.S. organization led by Michael Hichborn that has spent years auditing the destination of Catholic funds in the United States, based on public records from the Federal Election Commission.
According to data from the Federal Election Commission, Boxie made two contributions to ActBlue, the platform that channels donations exclusively to Democratic candidates: one hundred dollars in 2019 and fifty in 2020. And on September 24, 2025, already a priest with a long career in the archdiocese, he donated two hundred and fifty dollars to the campaign of Amanda Edwards, Democratic candidate for Congress from Houston. On the donation record, the now-bishop identified himself as a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Washington.
The profile of the beneficiary leaves no room for ambiguity. Edwards has the backing of Emily’s List, an organization whose sole purpose is to bring pro-abortion women to power. Her campaign platform promises to codify the protections of the Roe v. Wade ruling at the federal level, to shield “reproductive” decisions under health-care regulations, and to combat pro-life laws in states such as Texas.
After the Dobbs decision, she urged her followers to turn to Planned Parenthood. She publicly thanked the endorsement of the Houston LGBTQ+ Political Caucus, celebrated Trans Visibility Day, and, in a debate this past January, boasted of having been “on the front lines” against discrimination of trans people even when it cost her votes….
From Infovaticana
His credibility is totally destroyed already. There is no reason for any of the faithful to listen to him nor take him seriously. Besides which, he played the race card almost immediately.
He’s just going to be a Bishop Obama, a thorougly leftwing political bishop. But I daresay that’s exactly what Pope Leo, Cardinal McElroy, Cardinal Cupich, and Cardinal Tobin want in the US, and that’s precisely why he was elevated to the episcopacy.
Oh, he’ll be a darling of the Catholic left just like Obama was a darling of the political left.
He’s black, articulate, handsome, pro-gay, pro-trans, pro-Democrat, pro-abortion. He’s like a dream bishop for the Catholic left. He’ll be given a very important archdiocese in the future. Maybe he’ll succeed McElroy in Washington if JD Vance wins the next presidential election.
This is the church that Leo is building.
The counterfeit Bishop/Cardinal McElroy’s 2019 statement on abortion at the US Bishops’ conference says all we need to know about him: “It is not Catholic teaching that abortion is the preeminent issue that we face as a world. It just is not”.
He cares more about plastic straws than the unborn or their mothers’ souls.
Actually, that statement by McElroy is correct. It is not Catholic teaching that abortion is the preeminent issue. Taken by itself, that’s true.
The Church has not taught that any issue is preeminent.
People use prudential judgment to decide about issue priorization, and there may be legitimate disagreements about any prudential application.
This faithless, worthless cardinal is totally wrong. And so are you. The USCCB officially designates the sin and crime of abortion as the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholic voters in its political guidance document, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” (2007) Read it. The USCCB has updated materials and supplements on this extremely important document.
I have previously read of Bishop Boxis’s sins in other places, as well as in the weekly online publications of the Lepanto Institute. Since the 1960s, with the post-Conciliar Church’s inception, I do not believe in freedom for Catholic clergy, nuns or laymen — or the Pope — to publicly oppose Church teachings at all. Instead, I believe that upholding the Catholic Faith is a big responsibility to God. God is counting on the Pope and his clergy and nuns to lead and teach everyone about the Catholic Faith. And God is counting on Catholic laymen– especially parents– to uphold, live by, teach, and guide their children in the Catholic Faith, in the family home.
Bishops are supposed to make a Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity. A Catholic cleric cannot just teach, preach, and live as they wish, like some irresponsible, liberal, babyish, “hippie freedom” activist college kid. They must maturely uphold their responsibilities to Christ and His Church.
He was such a bad choice.
The only men being appointed bishops these days are anti-MAGA.
Franklin Graham recently posted that on Sat. Sept. 5, 170 mass baptisms by immersion in the sea, took place on the beach, at Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, England. Many people were requesting baptism on Social Media, after a man named Merlin Kraft posted a video of a baptism on his Social Media channel, BibleLadUK. So he spoke with his pastor, and they organized the mass baptisms, along with ministers and volunteers from many local churches, including the Church of England. People came from all across the UK– England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, etc. requesting baptism– both individuals and whole families. The BBC covered the big event. Everyone was given a free Bible. There are lots of similar Christian (Catholic and Protestant) revivals and baptisms occurring all across Europe, reported by news outlets in that region, and in various Christian international news sources. God is calling His people– and they are very thrilled to answer His call.
You can find information about this mass baptism, and similar events, easily, on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s online version of “Decision” magazine, as well as other social media sources. Google also can help. Billy Graham said that he felt much closer, theologically, to the Catholic Church, for its steadfast upholding of true Christian theology, whereas many Protestant churches crumbled with modern liberal ideologies, and lost their Christian foundations. Graham also had meetings with several popes, including Pope St. John Paul II, whom he greatly admired. Graham described his ecumenical relationship with Rome as truly “Christocentric.” Billy Graham was close friends with Blessed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whom he greatly admired, from the time he first started to do his evangelistic work, in the early 1940s. Graham attended Sheen’s funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC.
Protestant liberalism, which became a strong force in the 19th and 20th centuries, adapted Christian teachings to pragmatic modern society and the lives of modern people, influenced by the concepts of the 18th century French Enlightenment, the beginnings of modern science, social progress, Darwinian evolution, and new, modernist methods of historical-critical Biblical scholarship. During the 1920s, many Protestant ministers began to question foundational Christian beliefs such as the Divinity of Jesus, His virgin birth, miracles, divine substitutionary atonement, and bodily resurrection– and much more. A backlash arose of Protestant evangelicals, fundamentalists who upheld traditional Biblical beliefs. The modernists emphasized the Social Gospel and social justice in the early 20th century and got into liberal social justice political issues in the 1960s. The mainline Protestant denominations then began to decline and fall apart.
In the Catholic Faith, Sacred Tradition is the living transmission of the Word of God and the teachings of Jesus Christ, handed dowm through the centuries, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Our Faith was passed down, from Christ and the Apostles, both orally and in writing. Sacred Tradition forms a single Deposit of Faith together with Sacred Scripture (the Bible). Our Church traditions– liturgical, disciplinary, or devotional practices, created by the Church over time–can change. But Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture are unchangeable. Protestants do not accept Catholic Sacred Tradition, nor the Church traditions. They only accept the Bible– Sola Scriptura.
Long ago, I had a friend who was a devout evangelical Protestant. She was an older student at UC Berkeley, majoring in English literature. She was curious about the Catholic Church, and asked at times, if she could attend Mass with me. One day in late July, on the Feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary and grandparents of Jesus, my friend asked me all about Sts. Anne and Joachim, because they are not mentioned in the Bible. I explained to her all about Sacred Tradition, orally handed down, a part of the Deposit of Faith, along with the written Holy Bible. Then she and I had a long discussion about this with the priest, as he was not busy, after Mass. He explained everything to her. She found it fascinating. Also, her first name happened to be “Anne!”
If this is true (which it appears to be), how can this priest be elevated to being a bishop?
(Has he publicly repented?)
Does the Pope know about this?
This is very troubling.
i just checked the origins of the much touted term ‘ creation spirituality ‘and found that the term entered the lexicon in 1967 through the antics and promotions of California’s own Matthew Fox
Fox was formerly a Dominican priest who got into all sorts of New Age garbage. He was a professor at several big Catholic colleges and was a director of a New Age program at Holy Names College in Oakland– the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality. He had feminist theologians, witches who practiced magic, LGBTs; he referred to God as “Mother,” replaced the dogma of Original Sin with the concept of “original blessing,” and included all sorts of stuff from other religions in his program. Cardinal Ratzinger, then serving as CDF head, had him investigated, and the Dominicans expelled him. Next, he left the Catholic Church, became an Episcopal cleric, and got interested in assisting with sacrilegious raves of ecstatic” youth disco dances in traditional UK cathedrals. He is by now pretty old. What a Californiacated liberal misfit mess.
I remember “Fr.” Matthew Fox quite well after I accidentally bought one of his books. I always said he suffered from “reversals”, which in the field of education is when a small child writes his name backwards. Everything in the book was backwards: sin fine, virtue evil: dragon good, his slayer evil and on and on and so forth. I threw it out and never bought another. According to Wikipedia, he is still alive.
Creation Spirituality is related to primitive, pantheistic pagan cults of earth and goddess worship. They view God as Mother, nurturing creation from the Big Bang onwards. They believe in use of creativity, imagination, wisdom, social activism, creative earth-based Nature rituals, and witchcraft, to help change the world and end social injustices. They reject the Christian Biblical teaching of Christ’s mission to redeem fallen man, purify souls, and guide them to eternal life in Heaven. They replace the dogma of Original Sin with the concept of “original blessing,” in which mankind is seen as “innately good,” loved by their Creator. Everyone and everything has some “light” and “darkness.” The Sacred (in pantheistic terms) animating the Cosmos is said to be the force that can overcome darkness, injustices, evils. They reject the idea of Good (as defined in Biblical terms) to overcome Evil. Of course Christians teach that all good is from God. Christianity teaches that mankind inherits the consequences (not personal guilt) of Adam and Eve’s fall. Thus, our human nature is weak and wounded, prone to concupiscence and sin, prone to suffering, calamities, illness, disease and death on earth. Our ultimate victory, defeating forever the power of Evil, is through the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
If this so called Bishop is pro abortion he’s not someone a Catholic in good standing should follow or have anything to do with. Our Lady of Fatima pray for this bishop and for the church that allows him to be a bishop. Message to this Bishop. Repent and Convert! End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
DEI Catholicism is a Faux Catholicism