When the Rev. Raphael Warnock arrives in the nation’s capital to take his Senate seat, he is likely to be welcomed by a collaborator from his home state of Georgia in the person of the city’s Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Wilton Gregory.
In 2015, when Gregory, then archbishop of Atlanta, released a sweeping action plan to implement Pope Francis’ groundbreaking environmental encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” he received the strong backing of Warnock.
In fact, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock is senior pastor, went on to adopt parts of the archdiocese’s plan for its own congregation….
Now, after a victory in a special election Jan. 5 where Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler, he heads to Washington where he will be a closely watched player in the 117th Congress and likely a critical partner of the Biden administration, which has been vocal about the open relationship it intends to have with people of faith.
In D.C., Warnock’s old neighbor, Gregory, will likely walk a fine line in his relationship with the incoming administration. Some of his brother bishops prefer a stiff posture when it comes to dealing with the nation’s second Catholic president.
Gregory, however, has chosen a different approach.
“I want to begin a relationship with him that allows us to have a serious conversation, knowing full well that there are issues that he and I will be diametrically opposed to, but hopefully also being able to capitalize on issues that we can advance together,” Gregory told Religion News Service in December. “I don’t want to go to the table with a gun on the table first.”
While Warnock will undoubtedly face pressure from Catholics for his pro-choice stance on abortion, past precedent shows Gregory is likely to take the same approach as with Biden to dealing with Warnock in finding practical ways to collaborate….
The above comes from a Jan. 6 story in the National Catholic Reporter.
“Gregory is likely to take the same approach as with Biden to dealing with Warnock in finding practical ways to collaborate….” i.e., undermine Catholic teachings.
Ebenezer Baptist is Martin Luther King jr’s and John Lewis’s Church. So Senator elect Warnock comes from a much heralded background.
While CDL Gregory must uphold his office, I think it is good to work with Warnock when he can.
Cardinal Gregory must uphold his office? LOLOLOL Please tell me when that happens.
I don’t trust any clergyman in public office , it is not their place , this one in particular using his faith as an excuse for his liberal agenda, the worst form of virtue signaling.
Why would Sen. Warnock spend any time or energy to “undermine Catholic teachings?” Most Protestants don’t think about us that much. It would be interesting if for once you post something positive and informing.
To clarify, my post was directed at bohemond’s comment, not mikem.
Tyquan. I was talking about Gregory, not the senator. Is that clear?
The Sinister Minister, pro abortion “Reverend” Raphael Warlock.
I think both men believe in BLM more than anything else, so of course they’ll work together.
Unfortunately, in recent times, the Southern Baptists, which included Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his group– along with today’s Rev. Warnock– have been tragically split apart, with some accepting the typical modernist evils, that are assailing all Christendom– abortion, LGBT issues, etc. Modernism, in every way, and in every field, is basically subversive, dehumanizing, disordered, deconstructive, illogically grotesque, evil, inharmonious, and unnatural, and it has torn our world to pieces and fed it straight to the Devil. God made Mother Nature beautiful, well-ordered, and harmonious, with a perfect design, and a perfect place for all things. Sex belongs between a man and a woman in traditional marriage only, and the two are meant to bring forth children from the hand of God, our Divine Creator. No such thing was ever intended by God, as misuse of the power of sex, in sinful, “hippie-style” premarital sex, prostitution, etc., and no such thing, as killing God’s children in their mother’s wombs. Chastity, self-control, seeing Christ in all others (no sexual “objectifying” of others), is the way God made us to live, and to guard our eyes and hearts in faithfulness to our marriage partner. And Children are a big responsibility, always. Always.
Most Southern Baptists do not fit the description above. If you’d like to see their positions on life, religious liberty, sex and more, you can go to the Ethics and Religious Liberty commission of the Southern Baptist Convention at
https://erlc.com/
While they do not have the fullness of the Christian faith, we should speak truthfully and charitably about our separated brothers and sisters. And, on every public policy issue in the news recently, they have been allies of other Christians, including Catholics, and even others who hold traditional values.
Also, Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock is pastor, is not Southern Baptist. It’s part of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the American Baptist Churches (the liberal and numerically smaller Baptist groups).