In a recent interview, the Vatican’s news outlet, Vatican News, joined other left-wing publications such as TIME and The New York Times and liberal politicians in praising Amanda Gorman, the young, pro-abortion woman who read a poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration. The interview and its tone appear to demonstrate implicit acceptance of Gorman’s anti-Catholic views on abortion.
Gorman appeared in the spotlight when delivering a poetic address at Biden’s inauguration on January 20. The address has since been described as a “spoken-word attack on Donald Trump and his followers,” containing references to an attack on democracy, attributed to former President Trump.
Her words were welcomed in gushing tones by left-wing America Magazine in an article that suggested her political attack possessed divine qualities and claimed her words “made us believe in the beauty of our future, precisely because of the poem’s own beauty. Her work speaks of God — even shines a light on God — simply because it is beautiful.”
Vatican News’s interview with Gorman focused on the issues of education and poetry. In a tone similar to America Magazine, Vatican News also equated some divine qualities to Gorman, hailing her as a woman who had made the “dream of a ‘healed’ humanity tangible.”
While mentioning that Gorman is Catholic, (she attends St. Brigid’s Catholic Church in Los Angeles), Vatican News conducted the interview without making any reference to God, or the Catholic faith. Instead, deputy editorial director Alessandro Gisotti focused on how poetry could affect Pope Francis’s call for building of bridges. In turn, Gorman decried how she believed poetry is taught as the “arena of an old, dead, white and male intellectual elite,” mentioning that poetry could “sanctify, purify, and rectify, even amidst discord.”
Gisotti also compared Gorman with Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg, suggesting that Gorman had become a leader of a movement “challenging the powerful of the earth….”
The above comes from a Feb. 15 story on LifeSiteNews.
This is disgraceful. What has happened to the Church? I’ll answer that. Under Francis and lefty bishops it has become nothing more than a leftist NGO. Totally sickened by this. Biden gets a pass. Gorman gets a pass. Pelosi gets a pass. Kerry gets a pass. The Cuomos get a pass. Newsom gets a pass. Bacerra gets a pass. The Church is a farce. Prelates fawn over abortion-supporting, LGBTQ supporting politicians and celebrities. Where are you, God? You let this continue? How long, O Lord? How long?
Kevin– Christ’s holy Catholic Church is really much bigger than a mere “brick-and-mortar” institution on earth– it exists in the Saints on earth and in Heaven, who all give their “Fiat” to Christ, and work to establish Christ’s Kingdom on earth! Christ reigns– not the darn Popes and their at-times faithless clergy– who so often all turn their backs on Christ! They are merely conduits for Christ’s magnificent graces, regardless of their own states of holiness. But always, no matter who says Mass, or who is elected as Pope– it is Christ Alone Whom we worship.
This is false and wrong criticism of the Church again from Kevin T. Please. An NGO does not celebrate the sacraments nor preach the Gospel which is the majority of the work of the Church. Just because you do not like the politics of of this particular event doesn’t mean you’re right in your unjust critique of the Church. Drop your politics in favor of the Gospel proclaimed by the Church.
jon, have you no Christian empathy, for a good Catholic like Kevin, suffering rightly, because our Church leaders so often do terribly wrong things, for all the world to see?? No moral conscience? The Vatican has corrupt fools misplaced in Christ’s vestments, who are supporting and praising a horrible young Catholic abortion promoter– instead of praising truly great young Catholic Pro-Life workers, like David Daleiden, Abby Johnson, and Shawn Carney. Doesn’t that mean anything to you? Have you lost your sense of right and wrong? Just wait until this evilly-praised young Harvard grad, Amanda, gains even more power in society, perhaps running for political office, or receiving a very high position, in which she can join Pelosi, Biden, Harris, AOC, Becerra, etc., to actually carry out her baby murder Abortion convictions— on your tax-payer dollars! While the USCCB sits and twiddles their thumbs, and promises to “do something or other…” Yes, they have all earned their hot seats, waiting for them, in Hell.
Amazing how mediocrity can be portrayed as profundity when it serves the left’s interests to persuade people that something lacking merit is excellent. I’m not jumping on this BLM bandwagon.
Rush Limbaugh deserves tons more accolades than this poetess. Rush stood for truth, goodness, Christian values and freedom and dedicated his whole life to bettering people and bettering America and the world. This young woman stands for none of those things in her writing and interviews and has no meaningful accomplishments. Let’s see the contrast between how the media treat Rush and how they have treated this woman.
This is an incisive point. Over his decades-long career, did Vatican News ever interview Rush Limbaugh? I couldn’t find anything. So they take the time to fawn over this manufactured fake celebrity within days of her being foisted on us commoners by the elites but don’t bother with a decades-long hero for life such as Rush?
You lost me at “… conversations with Michelle Obama”.
The photo of this woman is quiet unflattering with that sneer. Does not make me want to read or hear anything she could possibly say.
They lost *me* at “Vatican News.”
It seems that things like discernment, vetting and supernatural faith are lacking among many at the Vatican, in bishops conferences and some chanceries around the world.
When abortion promoter Jeffrey Sachs was invited to speak at the Vatican, when questioned, an archbishop there responded that as long as Sachs didn’t promote abortion while there, it was okay.
Venerable Pope Pius XII would never have invited Hitler to the Vatican to speak about the autobahn and road improvements, even if the Fuhrer remained silent about Jews, Poles, Czechs and Nazi crimes against humanity.
Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose hired an abortion promoter as its new principal.
Lady Gaga is a Catholic. Should she be invited to lead liturgical music and dance?
Bishops, please publicly teach Catholic faith and morals.
(That is your “job.”)
Granted that Ms Gorman is young, what is the specific cite that she is pro abortion?
Read this: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/amanda-gorman-inaugural-poet-for-biden-has-history-of-abortion-advocacy
Really? it’s too hard to look it up yourself? You could start here:
https://www.liveaction.org/news/inauguration-poet-amanda-gorman-abortion-short-facts/
Click on the words, “Now This” found in the beginning of the second paragraph of this link, provided by Anonymous, from Live Action. You will see Amanda Gorman reciting her extremely offensive poem, “8 Reasons.” An extremely offensive, ugly, Satanically-inspired horror!– it should be banned permanently, from all Internet and all types of media! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would be extremely offended by this terribly evil and immature, so-called “poem!” A work of Satan!
Most of us priests have been silent on abortion for decades, and we wonder how this could be in a “good catholic?”
Her parish in Los Angeles is a black liberation theology parish. Just like gay parishes are more gay than Catholic, same thing with St. Brigid, except racial identity is preeminent. Think Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a Catholic. Or Jesse Jackson as a Catholic. Or Al Sharpton as a Catholic. That’s the real reason.
Anon, you confuse me, as so many others on this thread have done. St. Brigid parish is in a “black” neighborhood, so it is likely to exhibit black preeminence. I belong to a “white” parish that tends to exhibit white preeminence. I’m not sure what your point is. If you go to a “Hispanic” neighborhood parish, I suspect they will exhibit Hispanic preeminence. So, what is your point?
Bob One– the point is not the location of the parish, nor its ethnic percentages. The point is– very poor Catholic leadership of this parish’s clergy! Imagine a Catholic parish under the leadership of “Fr.” James Martin, S. J., with constant “gay life-promoting” Masses, sermons and liturgies– regardless of how many gays actually attend that church! The whole point is– this is a Catholic parish church, and all Catholic churches must preach and teach Catholic doctrine– your race and ethnic background doesn’t matter. You are a Catholic, worshipping God, in church.
Bob One, google “black liberation theology”.
Anonymous and Kevin T.– I agree! Remember the big controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s crude-but-accurate comments on that filthy, Georgetown Law School co-ed, Sandra Fluke, brought to Congress by Nancy Pelosi, to promote evil, so-called “women’s rights” to birth control, promiscuity, and abortion?
Good, decent American women– especially
Catholics!– do not go before Congress, promoting promiscuity, birth control and abortion, under the false banner of “women’s rights!” Good, deccent lawmakers protect the innocence of young women, and protect the sanctity of Holy Matrimony and Child-Bearing– and the Sanctity of the American Traditional (man-woman) Christian Marriage and Family– the very heart of a Nation!
I love Amanda Gorman. I pray that she will be corrected in her errors and that all here including myself will be corrected in ours.
God bless everyone.
It would help if bishops, who are supposed to do the correcting, would do their jobs.
It should be her pastor that corrects her, not the bishop.