Anyway, it turns out that not everyone is happy about the American Catholic Bishops’ intentions to attack President Biden, a practicing Catholic, when they apparently supported everything the former guy did, despite his history.
And by “not everyone” I mean a lot of Catholic parishioners.
These paragraphs come from Raw Story (Sarah K. Burris)
"I had mass this morning, a few of them actually, and unsolicited, I can't tell you how many people came up to me and were really upset about this," said Father Beck. "I mean, across the political spectrum. And basically what they were saying was, you had a former president who checked none of the 'life issue' boxes for the Catholic church except that he said he would appoint Supreme Court justices that could overturn Roe v. Wade. And that's all that seemed to matter."
He also recalled Trump's photo-op he did with the Bible after peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters were tear-gassed in Lafayette Square. He also recalled the times in which Trump appeared to make fun of Pope Francis.
"And then you have Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic, who is pro-choice, although he says he's personally opposed to abortion, and people are talking about denying him communion," Father Beck continued. "The reception of communion — people see it as really based in hypocrisy. I can't tell you, some said this is the final straw for them. If the bishops go ahead with that, that's it for them."
What’s up with those bishops, anyway?
Turns out Biden is more popular than they realized, even with their own parishioners.
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