Politics Is Paramount In The Unfaithful’s War On The Catholic Bishops
Thanks to a communion controversy being clarified by the U.S. Catholic bishops and a continued insistence by President Joe Biden that his public actions are actually deeply personal matters, abortion is the issue of the day and with it, questions of religious faithfulness.
Corporate media are teaming up with nominal Catholics to smear the faithful as bad-faith political actors, while traditional Catholics work to convince an unconvinceable political class that their deeply held beliefs, as old as the church itself, stem not from whoever is passing through the White House, but from the doctrine on which they base their entire lives and practice.
Underpinning the controversy which culminates in whether Biden and other pro-abortion leaders should be denied communion based on their public support for the killing of unborn children, which directly conflicts with the church s teaching is a subconscious tug-of-war regarding the church s moral framework: Will the church view the culture war through the gospel, or will it view the gospel through the culture war? One approach is biblical. The other is deadly.
This might sound like a distinction without a difference, but it is not. It is actually a question of opposing worldviews. One prioritizes scripture, the other social causes.
Here’s an idea. The US Bishops could set up a sort of parallel church, as they have in China. Call it something like “The US Patriotic Catholic Church of Jesus and Social Justice” or something. Biden can belong to that church, take communion, sing songs, dance, etc. I guess he doesn’t dance much anymore, but you get the idea.