A Brookings analysis earlier this year by University of Pennsylvania professor John DiLulio noted that Hillary Clinton lost theoverall white Catholic voteby 33 points in 2016, but four years later, Biden cut that deficit in half, losing by only 15 points.
The story never once mentions that J. D. Vance, Trump's running mate, is a 2019 convert to the Catholic faith and might represent as big a challenge for Harris as her abortion advocacy and her grilling of "a Catholic judicial nominee about whether he could remain impartial due to his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a respected Catholic fraternal organization".
"If you can be convinced that you cannot defeat Donald Trump, will you stand down?" Stephanopoulos asked. "It depends on -- on if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that, I might do that," Biden said.
Like Joe's so important God himself would come down so to instruct him in the first place, and Joe could still say no.
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the
brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed
with me. ... Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: . . ..
Cardinal Robert Sarah, who formerly served as the Catholic Church’s
Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments, gave a lecture
titled “The Catholic Church’s Enduring Answer to the Practical Atheism
of Our Age” at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.,
last week. During his remarks, Sarah echoed the analysis
of Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington by
describing Biden as a “self-identified Catholic president” who amounts
to a “cafeteria Catholic.”
Sarah, a Guinean prelate who has emerged as one of the more outspoken
conservative voices within Catholic Church leadership, suggested that
the phenomenon of “cafeteria Catholics” extends beyond the president and
applies to many other “Catholic public officials.”
Because whom the gods would destroy they first make insane.
President Joe Biden has enraged Catholic Church regulars with his latest show of approval for abortion, a Vatican red line.
On Tuesday in Florida,
where he blasted the state’s impending six-week abortion ban, Biden
blessed himself with the sign of the cross when the woman introducing
him referenced Florida’s shorter window for abortion.
The group Catholic Vote blasted Biden’s actions on X.
Rachel Crandall-Crocker says several times in a 2020 interview, if you can manage to get through the whole thing, that the goal of organizing their day in the first place was to obtain power.
Just turn the sound off and turn on the closed captions and you'll see for yourself.
Comments to the YouTube video, by the way, have been turned off overnight, which is exactly what you would expect from people who want power, which to them means they have a say and you don't.
The success of this gay man's effort, originally organized on Facebook in 2009, elicited the Oy vey! he exclaimed about four minutes in. This attention-seeking larper must be even more thrilled now.
This was April 21, 2020, not quite a year before Joe Biden became the first American president to recognize the day officially, which in retrospect seems indicative not so much of Joe Biden's thinking on the matter but of the unseen activists in his administration who drive his policies behind the scenes because Joe is too feeble of body and mind to exercise executive function.
Americans didn't notice at the time in March 2021 for good reasons.
Their attention was consumed by the COVID-19 hysteria, by the Trump defeat, by the roll-out of the new vaccines, uptake of which peaked in April because of sudden deaths for some Johnson and Johnson vaccine recipients which in turn launched the seemingly interminable vaccine controversy, and in the summer by the Afghanistan debacle.
But now that the day happened to coincide with Easter three years later, Americans have noticed, which has had the unintended effect of making their day more visible and powerful than it might have been. We have taken the bait and given them the attention which they wanted, which is the basis of their power. Their success may be measured by how the conversation of the country was dominated by their day, not by ours.
Note that when confronted with what he had done, Joe Biden denied that he had declared Easter Sunday the Transgender Day of Visibility. But of course he did. He brought the Trojan Horse of Transgenderism into the government and now we awaken from a long sleep and find that Troy has already fallen.
Since their goal is power, we may imagine that it won't be long now before America has its own attention-seeking Emperor Nero, who played the bride to a man he had married, consummating it on a couch in full public view. Or before we have a transgender woman Elagabalus, the Roman Emperor who said "I am a lady".
It couldn't have been today, it couldn't have been Monday, it had to be Easter.
Joe has applesauce for brains and can't remember what he had for breakfast, so I'm sure when he signed this on Friday he wasn't thinking about Sunday being Easter.
But it makes no difference. Joe is the first American president to insist on the transgender agenda in his official capacity as president.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon
thee, and overtake thee:
The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Last year, when the Vatican defrocked ultra-conservative U.S. anti-abortion priest Frank Pavone for
“blasphemous” social media posts and disobedience to bishops,
Strickland was one of the few American bishops to defend him publicly.
“The
blasphemy is that this holy priest is canceled while an evil president
promotes the denial of truth and the murder of the unborn at every turn,
Vatican officials promote immorality and denial of the deposit of faith
and priests promote gender confusion devastating lives...evil,”
Strickland wrote on the platform then known as Twitter.
Kalamazoo County overwhelmingly voted for Catholic Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, who garnered 58.2% of the popular vote. As of 2010, Michigan overall is 58% Catholic.
The old symbolism of the priest facing the altar with the congregation, emphasizing the unity of priest and congregants, is completely lost on these people:
In 2007, [Pope] Benedict removed a rule requiring a local bishop’s permission to celebrate the old Latin Mass. Francis not only reinstated that rule but added other restrictions.
In dioceses where groups celebrate the old rite, also known as the Tridentine Mass, bishops must also work to determine that the celebrants “do not deny the validity and the legitimacy” of the Second Vatican Council, which helped shape many church reforms. Among those changes were the popularization of Mass in the vernacular, making worship more accessible to regular Catholics.
In a letter accompanying his decision, Francis said he was “saddened” that the use of the old Latin Mass often doubles as a rejection of the Second Vatican Council, under the argument that its reforms “betrayed” the church’s true traditions. But Francis said that to doubt the council is to “doubt the Holy Spirit himself.”
“The great issue for the Catholic Church has always been the question of change,” said David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. The old Latin Mass had become “a wedge issue, to divide, to elevate one part of the church as superior to other parts of the church,” Gibson said. “And that is intolerable.”
In the Latin Mass, the priest often faces away from the congregation. The rite also includes the use of particular — often elaborate — vestments.
Meanwhile the Biden administration, which has deliberately ceded control of the US southern border with Mexico where tens of thousands of illegals now routinely cross seeking "asylum", has put its foot down and publicly warned Cubans fleeing communist tyranny that they are not welcome in the United States, resurrecting the intransigence of the late Clinton administration made infamous in the affair of Elian Gonzalez, who was forcibly repatriated to Cuba.
Cuban refugees do not make reliable Democrat voters.
Former Obama administration officials reportedly have increased their wealth dramatically since 2009 and now a bunch of them occupy high positions in the Biden administration, which is supposed to represent a return to normalcy :
Susan Rice, Domestic Policy Council Director, now worth as much as $149 million.
Ron Klain, Biden Chief of Staff, as much as $12.2 million.
Jeff Zients, Coronavirus Response Coordinator, $442.8 million.
Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, $1.5 million.
Brian Deese, National Economic Council Director, $7 million.
Jen O'Malley Dillon, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, $4.7 million.
Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, $27.5 million.
Julissa Reynoso, Jill Biden Chief of Staff, $14.8 million.
From his couch in Dallas, Ben Kirby began asking questions about the lifestyles of the rich and famous pastors when he was watching some worship songs on YouTube on a Sunday morning in 2019. ...
Kirby said he has been to churches where a volunteer was designated solely for the purpose of carrying the pastor’s Bible. Often, he writes, these pastors have private entrances, reserved parking spaces, security details and a gaggle of personal assistants or handlers. And, often, they promise blessings from God to their followers if their followers bless the church. ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the median salary for clergy was $53,180 in 2019 [55% higher than the median wage in 2019 of $34,248 for all Americans], but Kirby’s Instagram feed showcases how a nationwide evangelical market has become lucrative for leaders with celebrity status. Like other social media influencers, sometimes these pastors are gifted the shoes and clothes they wear. ...
Since starting the Instagram account, Kirby has been dipping his own toes into the evangelical marketplace, entering a world that he has so openly critiqued. Like church leaders, his income is partially dependent on his podcast advertising and book sales, and he sells merch based off the brand. ...
Kirby doesn’t want Christians to abandon fashion or celebrities, but he does want more transparency and accountability.
“I’m getting people to question the status quo within the church and hopefully push for a reevaluation of what we value,” he said. “People aren’t going to reach God without this guy wearing Yeezys? Come on.”
