We all know that Joe Biden isn’t exactly a model Catholic.
That hardly makes him unique, especially among cradle Catholics. It certainly doesn’t justify calling him anti-Catholic. It is a fact that being Catholic is by its nature counter-cultural, given that the natural law tradition and more traditional moral stances of the Church deviate wildly from American cultural norms. Biden’s deviations from the Faith are hardly unusual.
But even with these caveats, I have to conclude that Biden is, in fact, anti-Catholic in the simplest sense: he is at war with Catholics and the Catholic Church.
The evidence is irrefutable and copious. In just the past 4 days I found 4 stories about Biden Administration attacks on Catholics, and if you go back further than that you can find innumerable more. The FBI has categorized Catholic traditionalists as potential domestic terrorists, placed informants in Catholic organizations, kicked Catholic priests out of Walter Reed, and let a domestic terrorist who attacked a Catholic Church off with a slap on the wrist.
Merrick Garland told me – under oath – the FBI was not targeting Catholic parishes. That appears to have been a lie. I want the truth 👇 pic.twitter.com/HE8ncapeYz
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 11, 2023
Military kicks Catholic priests out of Walter Reed Hospital
The FBI can’t imagine where all of this anti-Catholic bias is coming from
FBI slammed for using 'undercover sources' in Catholic churches to monitor 'suspicious activity' @LifeSite
"..FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin revealed doc()s showing..agency..monitoring “radical” Catholics, specifically those who attend the Latin Mass.."https://t.co/nXkYQxmr1K
— wpear (@wpear) April 12, 2023
This is only the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more, including calculated slights to the Pope himself. Biden had the transgender flag flown from the US Embassy to the Vatican. Something tells me that there are plenty of places this flag didn’t fly, just as all those Pride logos for the corporations somehow didn’t get promoted in the Middle East.
It’s impossible to overstate how hostile this administration has been to Catholics. Not just to the Catholic faith, but all practicing Catholics.
It’s bizarre. The second Catholic President of the United States is undoubtedly the most anti-Catholic president in memory and the most openly so.
WOW: Biden's DOJ offered a sweetheart deal to a transgender vandal who admitted to defacing a Catholic church with profane graffiti, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker, and resisting arrest.https://t.co/xK77wqOdYY
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 12, 2023
Biden clearly has diverged from the faith he was catechized in. Fair enough. Having spent most of my life as a non-Catholic I certainly can respect that. It’s not like this is uncommon, even for very faithful Catholics. Being friends with many fallen-away Catholics I hardly expect cradle Catholics to be devout. I can even understand succumbing to resentments and disdaining the Church itself at a personal level.
But we aren’t talking about anything so usual. The Biden Administration has clearly targeted Catholics and the Catholic Church for what amounts to state suppression. The Catholic faith is being treated as a font of dangerous ideological ideas and a potential breeding ground for domestic terrorists. Further, the Biden Administration has basically declared open season on Catholic institutions, looking the other way as Catholic institutions have been vandalized.
Is it the pro-life doctrines of the Church that so offend?
Is it the hostility to gender ideology that stems from the Catholic Natural Law tradition?
Or is it just that the Church as an institution provides a cultural counterweight to the ideological power of the state?
I really don’t understand, to be honest. But the evidence is clear.
The Biden Administration has put a target on Catholics’ backs.
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