Why Does Joe Biden Hate His Church?
Joe Biden claims to be Catholic. So why is the FBI profiling Catholic churches, his Administration canceling priests from Walter Reed and trying to shut down a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma?
Pretend you’re Catholic for a moment. Perhaps you don’t need to. Roughly one in five Americans are Catholic, paired closely with a growing evangelical community and declining, dying “mainline protestants.” I’m not Catholic, but I consider many adherents great friends. I respect their faith and devotion, patriots all.
Pretend the President of the United States is Catholic. Wait, we don’t have to pretend. He proudly proclaimed it and happily allowed cameras to follow him into Mass at his church near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, as the 2020 election neared, and especially around his 2021 inauguration.
Biden’s Catholic faith will be on full display as the first publicly churchgoing president in decades
Thus blared the CNN headline on December 13, 2020, as the outlet gushed over Biden’s apparent electoral victory, with cameras following him as he entered a parish near his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The New York Times, the official organ of the permanent administrative state, gushed about Biden’s faith two days after his inauguration.
Mr. Biden, perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century, regularly attends Mass and speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his policies.
And with Mr. Biden, a different, more liberal Christianity is ascendant: less focused on sexual politics and more on combating poverty, climate change and racial inequality.
George W. Bush, call your office.
Here is another official state media report, this time from taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio, in what could be considered an illegal campaign contribution from September 17, 2020:
Joe Biden is known to carry a rosary in his pocket and to go to Mass every Sunday. If elected, he would be only the second Catholic president in American history. NPR's Asma Khalid reports on how his faith is central to how he sees the world and how it affects his politics.
ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: When you listen to Joe Biden, you'll notice how he peppers his speeches with references to God. Here he is earlier this week speaking to the Poor People's Campaign.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
JOE BIDEN: All of you remind me of how Scripture describes the calling born out of the wilderness - a calling to serve, not to be served, a calling toward justice, healing, hope, not hate.
KHALID: It wasn't a one-off comment. This is how Biden talks.
Sadly, it is not how Biden or his administration acts.
“Religiously observant” clearly does not include protecting his faith from assaults from the federal government. Or the recent actions of his son, Hunter. Let’s consult the estimable Jonathan Turley, itinerant blogger and law professor at George Washington University:
On Monday, Hunter Biden will finally make it to Arkansas. The Natural State is not a Biden family favorite but there is one thing that would ordinarily be an attraction: Biden’s daughter Navy Joan. In the Biden family, the four-year-old girl remains “she who must not be named” literally. Not only has President Biden refused to refer to her as a grandchild or even include a Christmas stocking with the other children, her father Hunter is fighting to prevent her from using the Biden name. Indeed, the only reason that Hunter is coming to the same state with his daughter is to seek to limit his child support.
The viciousness of the Biden family in dealing with this little girl is only matched by that of the media. Reporters who profess to support women and denounce deadbeat dads have either ignored this story or belittled her mother, Lunden Roberts.
Roberts is widely dismissed as a “former stripper.” That appears how she met Hunter, but it is often used to paint her in the same way that the media gleefully reported Hillary Clinton denouncing women involved with her husband as mere “bimbo eruptions.”
Very Catholic, indeed. Words do speak louder than actions.
But Biden’s FBI considers certain Catholics - so-called “Radical Traditional” Catholics who subscribe to the Latin mass - as harboring white supremacist thoughts and worse.
A now-withdrawn FBI memo from its Richmond office, cleared by dozens of higher-ups, said this: “FBI Richmond assesses the increasingly observed of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditional Catholic ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.” With “high confidence,” the religious bigots at the FBI added.
I’m guessing that Joe Biden doesn’t like Latin mass. And especially those who attend them.
And that’s not all. OSVnews.com:
On March 31, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland issued a “cease and desist” order to Holy Name College Friary, a community of Franciscan priests and brothers based in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to the military archdiocese’s April 7 news release.
The Franciscan friars served the center’s service members and veterans for close to two decades, according to the military archdiocese. Walter Reed is one of several major medical facilities operated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the Defense Health Agency, and so falls within the pastoral jurisdiction of the military archdiocese.
According to the archdiocese, the March 31 order directed Catholic priests to halt religious services on the center’s grounds, ahead of the church’s commemorations of the Sacred Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday.
Since the end of March, no Catholic pastoral care has been on staff at Walter Reed Army Hospital—no word on whether Wiccans have also been excluded.
But that’s not all. Atlanta talk show host. Erick Erickson tells the story of a hospital I remember growing up in the Sooner State, St. Francis, in Tulsa. It’s over a sanctuary candle. Read on:
The Biden administration wants to shut down the 12th largest hospital in the United States for burning a candle. St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma serves 400,000 patients annually and employs 11,000 people in the city. Since its opening in 1960, St Francis has had a living flame candle continuously lit that symbolically represents the presence of God in the building. The candle - away from patients and inside a double sealed glass globe within the chapel - was approved by the fire martial and never the subject of complaints from patients.
Despite this, a hospital accreditor for the federal government has decided the flame must be put out or the hospital lose the accreditation that allows it to serve the elderly, disabled, and low-income patients.
The progressive ideologues within the Biden administration do not care that thousands of low-income people could lose healthcare access in Tulsa over a flame that has been lit for 63 years. The same party that ran ads showing Paul Ryan shoving grandma off a cliff does not care that someone’s grandma could literally die in Oklahoma because of this.
I don’t doubt Joe Biden’s faith, despite his rabid support for abortion up to and through the ninth month of pregnancy, in direct violation of his church’s teaching. I don’t doubt he attends Mass, perhaps regularly, and takes communion. I don’t doubt that if pressed, he might actually express belief in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. I’ve never heard him do that, but perhaps.
But Biden does remind me of the Apostle Paul’s words in Titus 1:16 (ESV):
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
In his rapidly diminishing state, Joe Biden may be too impaired to know what’s happening. But his Administration’s actions speak louder than its words. And he - and they - are unfit for their jobs.
Joe Biden is either too diminished to do his job or a religious fraud. Possibly both.