Nancy Pelosi

American Bishops Failed to Discipline Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians

American Bishops Failed to Discipline Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians (12+ articles)

  1. A few are now speaking up, but they waited until AFTER the election, to their shame
  2. Canon 915: Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
  3. For the past 45 years, the bishops’ reluctance to enforce canon 915 has allowed grave scandal and contributed to the Culture of Death. We still await most American bishops to do the right thing.
  4. Cardinal Burke: USCCB Must Correct the Scandal of Catholic Politicians Who Promote Abortion – Complicit Clergy
  5. US Bishops Vote Betrays Body and Blood of Jesus – Complicit Clergy (11/17/21) quoting story at National Review
  6. Phil Lawler: Bishops’ Eucharistic Document “Worse Than Nothing” – Complicit Clergy (11/18/21) quoting EWTN story.
  7. The Demon of the USCCB | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) (11/22/21) – fail to bar pro-abort politicians from Holy Communion
    • 1965 Baltimore Catechism, question 255: “He who receives Communion in mortal sin receives the Body and Blood of Christ but does not receive His grace, and he commits a great sacrilege.”
    • Bishop Quote: “…it’s up to an individual bishop to determine whether he will enforce canon law in his own diocese.”
    • Another Bishop: Canon law is not clear — it could be interpreted different ways
  8. Arizona Bishops Attempt to Cancel Pro-Life, Pro-Family Catholics (lifesitenews.com) – 11/2/22
  9. Cordileone should’ve banned Pelosi from Communion ten years earlier (lifesitenews.com) – 5/26/22
  10. DC archdiocese implies it will allow Nancy Pelosi to receive Holy Communion – lifesitenews.com – 5/24/22
  11. Joe Biden is the ‘product’ of weak bishops who don’t defend Church teaching: Catholic activist – lifesitenews.com
  12. US bishops’ pro-life chair condemns Biden’s abortion executive order, mum on denying him Communion – lifesitenews.com – 7/11/22
  13. Our Catholic President and the Most Pressing Moral Issue of Our Time – Word on Fire – 8/5/22

Pope Francis Support for Pro-Abortion politics

Pope Francis Support for pro-abortion politics (15+ articles)

  1. Vatican puts brakes on US bishops confronting problem of pro-abortion Biden receiving Holy Communion
  2. Pelosi ‘Pleased’ by Vatican Statement on Communion for Pro-Abort Politicians-CatholicVote org
  3. Hails pro-abortion Irish president as a ‘wise man of today’ – lifesitenews.com
  4. Concelebrates Mass with Slovakian bishop who Pope Benedict deposed – lifesitenews.com
  5. Pope praises pro-abortion UN agency UNESCO, highlights ‘privileged relationship’ with Church – lifesitenews.com– 11/12/21
  6. Vatican Chief Praises Italy’s Law Legalizing Abortion as a ‘Pillar of Society’ (complicitclergy.com) – 8/29/22
  7. Pope Francis EXPOSED – Part 2: Italian abortionist praised by Francis & praise for pro-LGBT cardinal (lifesitenews.com) – Dec. 2022
  8. Praised the radically pro-abortion President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.
  9. Backed communion for pro-abortion politicians and his endorsement ofhomosexual civil unions.
  10. In 2016, Called abortionist Emma Bonino one of the Italy’s “forgotten greats,” who was infamously pictured performing an illegal abortion during her early days of campaigning for abortion, after having had an illegal abortion herself at the age of 27.
  11. Dissident nun says Pope’s support for her ministry shows pro-LGBT ‘new era’ in Catholic Church – lifesitenews.com – 1/13/22
  12. 10/12/21: Grants Nancy Pelosi a 20-minute audience and photo op – Grave Papal Sin | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com)
  13. 10/25/21: Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis will show abortion isn’t an important issue for the Vatican (lifesitenews.com)
  14. 10/29/21: Biden Says Pope Told Him He’s a ‘Good Catholic’ and Should Continue to Receive Communion – Complicit Clergy
    • The Pope and the President – The Catholic Thing (11/3/21, Robert Royal) – I’ve been critical– on this page and via the Papal Posse at EWTN, among other venues – of many things Pope Francis has said and done. With a proper respect, I believe. But more than everything else – more than the indirect infidelities in Amoris Laetitia; the cringe-making chumminess with McCarrick, Zanchetta, Battista Ricca, and many other abusers; the harsh measures against the TLM; even the outrage of Pachamama – he’s done nothing more outrageous than telling Joe Biden – if the story’s true – that he’s a “good Catholic” and should “continue receiving Communion.”
  15. Praises pro-abortion President and backs communion for pro-abort politicians – lifesitenews.com– 9/21/21

Pope Francis

Pope Francis and the Vatican

(For those uncomfortable with criticizing the Catholic Church hierarchy, see Catholic Leadership Critique Rationale)

Here are the primary reasons why I believe Pope Francis has lost all moral credibility with serious Catholics like myself:

  1. Sexual abuse coverups (15+ articles)
  2. Scandals and Lack of Accountability (15+ articles)
  3. Liberal Appointments (30+ articles)
  4. Support for pro-abortion politics (15+ articles)
  5. Suppression of Catholic conservatives and Tradition; ignores Dubia (20+ articles)
  6. Acceptance of Homosexuality (40+ articles)
  7. Heretical Statements and Actions (40+ articles)
  8. Synod on Synodality (9 articles)
  9. Promoter of Globalism and One World Government (25+ articles)
  10. Promoter of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates (20+ articles)

Additional notable items:

  1. Pope rips EWTN ‘work of the devil’ | News Headlines | Catholic Culture (9/21/21) – He clearly does not believe a Pope should ever be criticized. But he has no problem ripping into those whose viewpoint differs from his.
    • Evidently linking such criticism to support for the Tridentine liturgy, the Pope went on to speak of “the decision to stop the automatism of the ancient rite.” He said that when young priests seek permission to celebrate the Latin Mass, it is “a phenomenon that indicates we are going backward.”
    • Earlier in the exchange, Pope Francis had spoken out against a tendency to “look back to the past: to seek security.” He said: “This is the evil of this moment—namely, to seek the path in rigidity and clericalism, which are two perversions.”
    • The Pope vs. EWTN: too hot to handle? | Catholic Culture (9/22/21)
  2. Consistory Reveals Francis’ Motives & Ambitions (marklambert.blogspot.com) – 5/29/22
  3. Pope Francis condemns ‘serious sin’ of ‘proselytism’ but has ‘no explanation’ for vocations crisis – lifesitenews.com – 1/16/23
  4. Lightning Strikes St. Peter Statue on Pope Francis’ Birthday 12/17/23, Internet Lights Up – CatholicVote org – 1/1/24 – The lightning struck the statue, despite there being lightning rods some 30-40 feet above it.
  5. Illegal Immigrant Caravans and Criminal Catholics (townhall.com)– Michelle Malkin
    • Pope Francis donated $500,000 nine months ago from his Peter’s Pence fund to assist illegal immigrant caravan participants. The subsidies cover “27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations” for “housing, food and basic necessities,” as well as “migrant” assistance programs “run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas,” according to the Catholic News Service.
    • Make no mistake: These are not desperate people suddenly seeking refuge from violence and harm. They are low-wage workers, pew-fillers and future ethnic-bloc voters being exploited by Big Business, the Vatican and the Democrat Party.
  6. Francis affirms ‘transgender’ group in papal audience (lifesitenews.com) – 6/30/22 – :26 minutes into the 43-minute video
  7. Cardinal Müller responds to Pope Francis’ dubia on ‘transsexual’ godparents, baptisms – Lifesitenews.com – 11/9/23