{"id":949627,"date":"2021-11-01T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949627"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:13:52","slug":"jesuit-father-james-martin-u-s-bishops-overemphasize-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jesuit-father-james-martin-u-s-bishops-overemphasize-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesuit Father James Martin: U.S. Bishops Overemphasize Abortion"},"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%2Fjesuit-father-james-martin-u-s-bishops-overemphasize-abortion%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=949627&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 class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Jesuit Father James Martin told Italian media U.S. bishops are obsessed with abortion, which clouds their vision on other equally important issues.<\/p>\n<p>While many lay Catholics support President Joe Biden, many bishops \u201care against him, unfortunately, because they only think about one issue, abortion, and nothing else,\u201d Father Martin told the Italian daily <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em> in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ow2.rassegnestampa.it\/Ucei\/PDF\/2021\/2021-11-01\/2021110149960131.pdf#page=1&amp;zoom=auto,-154,618\">interview<\/a> published Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe bishops raised no problems when the former Attorney General William Barr fast-tracked several death penalty executions, which is also against Church teaching,\u201d the priest stated.<\/p>\n<p>In his interview, Father Martin suggested that the bishops are out of sync with Pope Francis, who has a more nuanced view of moral issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the American bishops, abortion is the \u2018preeminent\u2019 concern among the life issues,\u201d he declared, whereas Pope Francis has insisted \u201cthat \u2018equally sacred\u2019 are the lives of those already born, including the poor, migrants, refugees, and other vulnerable people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, to focus almost exclusively on a single issue to decide whether or not someone can receive Communion is not an approach the pope agrees with,\u201d Martin asserted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17651178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1299335293.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17651178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1299335293.png\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: Pro-life activists participate in the 48th annual March for Life outside the U.S. Supreme Court January 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a much smaller group of activists participated in the annual march that marked the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that had legalized abortion. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pro-life activists participate in the 48th annual March for Life outside the U.S. Supreme Court January 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is difficult not to see the bishops\u2019 insistence on worthiness to receive Holy Communion as \u201csomething politically motivated,\u201d the Jesuit priest declared, since \u201cbishop after bishop has repeated how terrible it is that Biden receives Communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this where they focus their attention after a global pandemic?\u201d he asked rhetorically, \u201cOn whether or not Biden can receive Communion?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not surprised that Pope Francis, who is \u2018pro-life\u2019 and a convinced opponent of abortion, has also said that he does not agree with the approach of denying politicians the sacrament of Communion just because of their position on abortion,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Father Martin also lamented in his interview that some \u201cfar-right priests\u201d in America are opposed to coronavirus vaccine mandates and that \u201cmany conservatives believe conspiracy theories about the vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But these voices are \u201ca small minority,\u201d he said, and \u201chave more to do with political orientation than religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Jesuit Father James Martin told Italian media U.S. bishops are obsessed with abortion, which clouds their vision on other equally important issues. 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