{"id":496521,"date":"2021-05-11T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496521"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:05:26","slug":"top-cardinal-warns-bishops-about-rebuking-pro-abortion-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-cardinal-warns-bishops-about-rebuking-pro-abortion-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cardinal Warns Bishops About Rebuking Pro-Abortion Biden"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ftop-cardinal-warns-bishops-about-rebuking-pro-abortion-biden%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=496521&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--><ul>\n<li><strong>A top cardinal warned U.S. Catholic bishops to be cautious before moving ahead with a plan to rebuke President Joe Biden for publicly receiving communion despite his abortion agenda.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will reportedly hold a national meeting in June where the bishops will decide whether to tell the president, and other high profile Catholic politicians, not to receive Communion at mass if they continue to publicly advocate for abortion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, downplayed the need for such a policy in a May 7 letter to USCCB President Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez of Los Angeles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top cardinal warned U.S. Catholic bishops to be cautious before moving ahead with a plan to rebuke President Joe Biden for publicly receiving communion despite his abortion agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-government-and-politics-religion-22e0d1ba299fe8693013036e3cc85c81\">Associated Press reported<\/a> in late April that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will hold a national meeting in June where the bishops <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/28\/catholic-bishops-biden-communion\/\">will decide whether<\/a> to tell the president, and other high profile Catholic politicians, not to receive Communion at mass if they continue to publicly advocate for abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, downplayed the need for such a policy in a May 7 letter to USCCB president Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez of Los Angeles viewed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/cardinal-ladaria-cautions-us-bishops-on-politicians-and-communion\/\">the Catholic News Service<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-catholic-communion-biden\/\">(RELATED: Archbishop Cordileone Says He Had \u2018Conversations\u2019 With Pro-Abortion Pelosi About Holy Communion)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">Any new policy \u201crequires that dialogue occurs in two stages: first among the bishops themselves, and then between bishops and Catholic pro-choice politicians within their jurisdictions,\u201d Ladaria wrote, the publication reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">The cardinal pushed the bishops not to move forward with any decision on this matter without unanimous support, warning that it could become \u201ca source of discord rather than unity within the episcopate and the larger church in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ladaria also said that it would be \u201cmisleading\u201d to indicate that abortion and euthanasia are \u201cthe only grave matters of Catholic moral and social teaching that demand the fullest level of accountability on the part of Catholics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cardinal also said that discussion of the matter \u201cwould best be framed within the broad context of worthiness for the reception of holy Communion on the part of all the faithful, rather than only one category of Catholics, reflecting their obligation to conform their lives to the entire Gospel of Jesus Christ as they prepare to receive the sacrament.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/30\/devout-catholic-joe-biden-media-amy-coney-barrett\/\">(RELATED: Media Treats Catholicism In Vastly Different Ways Depending On Politics)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery effort should be made to dialogue with other episcopal conferences as this policy is formulated in order both to learn from one another and to preserve unity in the universal church,\u201d Ladaria said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pelosi&#039;s Archbishop Explains: Can Catholics Support Abortion?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZU9K0eZ7A4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/catholic-church-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden\/\">recently warned<\/a> pro-abortion Catholic public figures not to receive communion at mass if they find that they \u201care unwilling or unable to abandon\u201d their \u201cadvocacy for abortion\u201d in\u00a0a lengthy document titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sfarchdiocese.org\/documents\/2021\/5\/Pastoral_Letter_LetterSize_0501.pdf\">Before I Formed You In The Womb, I Knew You.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you find that you are unwilling or unable to abandon your advocacy for abortion, you should not come forward to receive Holy Communion,\u201d the archbishop told Catholic public figures. \u201cTo publicly affirm the Catholic faith while at the same time publicly rejecting one of its most fundamental teachings is simply dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7188899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7188899\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7188899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on job numbers from April, 2021 at the East Room of the White House May 7, 2021. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426-620x414-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426-1536x1025-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1316832980-scaled-e1620694680426-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7188899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on job numbers from April, 2021 at the East Room of the White House May 7, 2021. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pastors have a responsibility to Catholic public figures to \u201ccall them to conversion and to warn them that if they do not amend their lives they must answer before the tribunal of God for the innocent blood that has been shed,\u201d Cordileone said.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/30\/devout-catholic-joe-biden-media-amy-coney-barrett\/\">(RELATED: Media Treats Catholicism In Vastly Different Ways Depending On Politics)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The archbishop said that this correction begins with \u201cprivate conversations between the erring Catholic and his or her parish priest or bishop,\u201d but noted that the \u201csad truth\u201d is that these private conversations often make no change, \u201cthus leaving it easy for the individual to continue participating fully in the life of the Church\u201d and causing scandal to other Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we are dealing with public figures and public examples of cooperation in moral evil, this correction can also take the public form of exclusion from the reception of Holy Communion,\u201d Cordileone wrote. \u201cWhen other avenues are exhausted, the only recourse a pastor has left is the public medicine of temporary exclusion from the Lord\u2019s Table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a bitter medicine, but the gravity of the evil of abortion can sometimes warrant it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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