{"id":1738801,"date":"2022-11-15T03:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738801"},"modified":"2022-11-15T03:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:17:40","slug":"catholic-bishops-gave-biden-a-pass-in-2020-and-now-christians-are-paying-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-bishops-gave-biden-a-pass-in-2020-and-now-christians-are-paying-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishops Gave Biden A Pass In 2020 And Now Christians Are Paying For It\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatholic-bishops-gave-biden-a-pass-in-2020-and-now-christians-are-paying-for-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) meets this week to elect a new president. Relations with Washington top the agenda. Stalking those relations is the reality that the USCCB compromised itself two years ago to facilitate the presidential candidacy of Joe Biden. Now it is caught in the repercussions of its own priorities in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s appointees in the Department of Health and Human Services would eliminate freedom of conscience in the name of health care. They propose to revise Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to add mandates about abortion, \u201cgender identity,\u201d and sexual orientation to existing protections against \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of sex.\u201d Revision will subvert the right of hospitals and medical practitioners to claim exemption from participating in procedures that violate their religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>The USCCB responded with a directive to laity: \u201cAct Now! Tell the Federal Government to <em>Do No Harm<\/em> to Catholic Health Care Ministries.\u201d Posted on the USCCB\u2019s website, it prints out as a two-page flyer for distribution in parishes:<\/p>\n<p>According to the new rule, it would be considered discrimination for a health care worker or Catholic hospital to object outright to performing gender transition procedures. \u2026 [It] also suggests that the government may refuse to honor the right of health care workers and providers not to perform or participate in abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops are opposed to mandates that imperil the functioning of Catholic health care institutions. Yet they themselves undercut conscientious opposition to abortion \u2014 or any morally repugnant surgery \u2014 two years ago. Attacks on religious freedom in medical practice are the unintended but predictable consequence of the USCCB\u2019s tacit support for Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/faithful-citizenship\/forming-consciences-for-faithful-citizenship-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to confront presidential candidate Biden\u2019s de-Christianizing agenda: \u201cThe Church is involved in the political process but is not partisan. The Church cannot champion any candidate or party.\u201d The pose of neutrality and a fastidious blind eye to Biden\u2019s contempt for church teaching and natural law was not strictly an endorsement. But it functioned as one by the back door.<\/p>\n<p> Secular Humanist Agenda <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s ambition to reverse existing limitations on abortion was in full view during his campaign. So was his blessing on gender theory, including transgender \u201crights\u201d for minors<em>.<\/em> But the USCCB, bent on keeping borders open, tipped its miters to Biden by revising its voter guide in advance of the election. \u201cForming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship\u201d was a 53-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/faithful-citizenship\/forming-consciences-for-faithful-citizenship-part-one\">inventory<\/a> of secular humanist agendas that, by sheer volume, sidelined abortion. The sexual revolution went unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>vade mecum<\/em> cataloged every ill recognized by the humanitarian left: from liberation theology\u2019s preferential option for the poor, to immigration, \u201cglobal solidarity,\u201d support for United Nations programs, and censure of \u201cunjust discrimination.\u201d It called for the United States to be a leader in addressing regional conflict around the planet. It sought to \u201chumanize globalism.\u201d The \u201cintrinsic evil\u201d of abortion eddied around in a stream frothing with competitors for attention:<\/p>\n<p>Care for Creation is a moral issue. Protecting the land, water, and air we share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops undercut conscientious opposition to abortion and transgender surgery by tacitly supporting Joe Biden in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1222,"featured_media":1738804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}