From a Dec. 11 editorial in the National Catholic Register:
….President-elect Joe Biden is in the process of assembling a collective “mafia” of pro-abortion political extremists to fill many of the most important posts of an incoming Biden administration.
The most striking example to date is Biden’s incendiary Dec. 7 announcement that he wants California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his secretary of Health and Human Services.
As attorney general and previously as a California state legislator, Becerra has prioritized the advancement of abortion and the persecution of pro-life perspectives, to a truly shocking degree. Among other things, he battled in court against pro-lifers and Catholics who were challenging California’s “Reproductive FACT Act,” which mandated that pro-life pregnancy centers must advertise for abortions, until the U.S. Supreme Court finally struck the law down in 2018 as a violation of the First Amendment.
Similarly, he has used his legal “bully pulpit” as California attorney general to enforce a 2014 state mandate that requires employers to cover abortions in health plans, without any exemptions for religious employers. And despite a ruling last January by the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights that the mandate unlawfully compromises conscience rights, Becerra defiantly continues to enforce this egregious breach of the religious liberty of faithful Catholics and others who oppose abortion on the basis of their heartfelt convictions.
In addition, in close collaboration with Planned Parenthood, Becerra has facilitated the ongoing legal prosecutions undertaken in California against David Daleiden, the brave Catholic whistleblower whose undercover videotapes disclosed the abortion industry’s complicity in the trafficking of body parts harvested from unborn babies….
Consider, too, some of the other prominent pro-abortion extremists who already have been ticketed to hold other key policy-making positions in a Biden administration — starting with presumptive Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Not even slightly coincidentally, Harris was Becerra’s immediate predecessor as California attorney general. In that capacity, she initiated some of the contentious pro-abortion legal files, such as the prosecution of Daleiden, that Becerra followed up on after Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.
In the area of foreign policy, meanwhile, the selections of Antony Blinken as secretary of state and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations were hailed in a Planned Parenthood press release as “Biden’s Choices to Lead Fight for Reproductive Rights Across the Globe.” Indeed, it’s clear a central Biden foreign-policy priority will be to revert American engagement with international institutions back to the implacably pro-abortion stance that was the hallmark of the preceding Obama and Clinton Democratic presidencies.
Then there is the nomination of Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget. As noted by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Tanden is a long-standing abortion-rights activist who was a staffer for Hillary Clinton, dating back to when Clinton was first lady. During the Obama administration, she played a central role in crafting the objectionable HHS mandate. In that context, in 2016, she sent an email to Clinton castigating Catholic leaders for their alleged “misogyny” in objecting to the Obamacare mandate.
The Democratic Party’s collective drive to repeal Hyde Amendment [which prevents federal taxpayer funding of almost all elective abortions] was further communicated by the Dec. 3 selection of Rep. Rosa DeLauro as the new chair of the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee. In her first significant public action as head of the new committee, DeLauro — yet another prominent Democratic Catholic politician who has publicly broken with her Church courtesy of her extreme pro-abortion-rights position — convened a hearing dedicated to overturning Hyde.
In a presumably unintended irony that can only be described as cruel, DeLauro’s political theatrics seeking to strip this measure of protection from unborn babies took place on Dec. 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception….
it’s one thing to allow a conscience dissenter to receive the Eucharist if he is a private citizen, but quite another to give communion to the leader of the world as he is gathering an army to launch an abortion crusade against the whole world
I don’t know who his bishop is, but whomever it is, why does he not call Biden in and reprimand him for his stance on abortion? Cowards all!
“Lord,if i should forget you,may my right foot wither”. “and if i should offer sacrifice to baal at the altar of ka-moloch,may my kingdom become quicksand under me and remove me to the nether places”
The National Catholic Register is a very “liberal” publication, unlike the NCReview. Father Z rants about the contents of the “Fishwrap.” This article is completely unexpected from them, I think.
No, that’s National Catholic Reporter. The Register is owned by EWTN.
Bob One…It’s the National Catholic *Reporter* that is the apologist publication for the progressive left, not the National Catholic Register. Good publication…every Catholic should at least have regular visits to their website…
Mark, I stand corrected. You are of course correct. My haste made waste.
We should expect nothing less from the harris-biden team. They were falsely elected by a know-nothing American public. The same people that burn, loot and throw a tantrum if they don’t get their way during a “peaceful protest.”
CalCatholic, you are usually more subtle. The Biden-Harris team may have been elected by a know-nothing public, but it was not a false election. The numbers were there. If one compares political philosophies with a past historical election in the US, I’m afraid the Trump cult most closely resembles the Know-Nothings of 1854. The real issue could be that the nation is moving in a direction not supported by church teachings, and we are now in the minority on things like abortion, same-sex marriage, and the like. We have reached a point where the Bishops and most priests have no moral “power’ like they did fifty years ago, and that didn’t start with VII, but with the priestly sex scandal. It’s gone downhill since then.
Bob One, it was stolen election, and we know nothings will treat you and the rest of the Left the way you treated Trump. You call for “unity” after calling us racists and bigots. If Cal-Cath would print harsher language I would write it.
On January 20 Mr. Biden will become President of our nation. Congress overcame a huge hurdle in working together effectively to pass the current stimulus bill. I will pray for you who have already decided to reject whatever good will happen while calling yourselves Catholic. Do you believe you can truly serve God while harboring anger and a desire for retribution in your heart?
All challenges to the election results have been disproven. Mitch McConnell now accepts this. Please re-read the Serenity prayer and accept God’s will for the direction of our country.
I will never accept this larceny ever.
If Democrats stole this election, why wouldn’t they also have stolen the Senate & House races too? The answer is that nobody stole this election, as more than 50 judges have determined, along with many many Republican governors and Secretaries of State and local election officials.
AG Bill Barr has now said he will not appoint any special counsel to investigate the election during his last few weeks. It’s over. Why can’t you accept the will of the majority of the American people?
Bob One give the perfect example of the smugness of the West Coast elite. Calling Trump supporters cult members.
bohemond, those of us on the left coast? Don’t you live on the East coast? Well over 70 million people voted to re-elect Trump, but it was not enough to win the Electoral College. In over 50 court cases it was proven that there was no theft of votes, machines that changed vote counts, or any other shenanigans that could tip the election. There is no evidence in any state that the election was rigged or stolen. That doesn’t mean that 70+ million people weren’t disappointed. One of the great institutions of our country is the voting process and the peaceful transition of power. It is what makes us a democratic republic. Without a peaceful transition, we are just another banana republic. If you analyze the vote, you will come to the conclusion that a lot of people split their vote. The voted for Biden, but then voted for their Republican Senators and Representatives, their Republican Governors, etc.
Bob One from now please stop your attempts to give me a civic lessons. The lack of any curiosity of those on the Left (like you) to even ponder how in the swing states that were in question voting stopped while Trump was by hundreds of thousands of votes. Then in the next morning Biden takes the lead by hundreds of thousands of votes in all of the swing states in question. The chances of this happening were 1 in 1 quadrillion.
Bob One we live in a constitutional republic not a democratic republic.
Bob One, I think the conclusion was that there was not enough to change the outcome. There were machines that changed votes. There were ballots not counted. There were big dumps of Biden votes. Everything they said happened, happened. Only a couple states would recount. Everyone should be really concerned about what happened this election. Even if it would not change the outcome. It is not about who won and who lost. It is about finding the places in our voting system where fraud can occur and fixing them. We learned a lot this time around.
Just wondering about the morality of
using vaccines made with the cells
of aborted politicians ……… just wunderin’
That’s a good one.
It has also been said that all those who are for abortion have already been born. That seems kind of unfair to me.