An illustration shows heretics being tortured and nailed to wooden posts during the first Inquisition.
Oh look, a bunch of people who covered up for pedophiles in their ranks for decades, maybe centuries, want to tell Joe Biden he isn’t a good Catholic:
U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a “teaching document” that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, for receiving Communion despite their support for abortion rights.
The result of the vote — 168 in favor and 55 against — was announced Friday near the end of a three-day meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that was held virtually.
The bishops had cast their votes privately on Thursday after nearly three hours of impassioned debate.
Supporters of the measure said a strong rebuke of Biden was needed because of his recent actions protecting and expanding abortion access, while opponents warned that such action would portray the bishops as a partisan force during a time of bitter political divisions across the country.
They are a far-right partisan force and have been for a long time. Total hypocrites too. And it’s one of the reasons why this is happening:
Fewer than half of U.S. adults say they belong to a church, synagogue or mosque, according to a new Gallup survey that highlights a dramatic trend away from religious affiliation in recent years among all age groups.
The new Gallup poll, published Monday, indicates that religious membership in the U.S. has fallen to just 47% among those surveyed — representing less than half of the adult population for the first time since Gallup began asking the question more than 80 years ago.
While membership in a house of worship fell only slightly in the latest survey, which was conducted in part during the coronavirus pandemic, the results reflect a trend that Gallup has been tracking since the turn of the century.
In 2018, 50% of adults polled said they belonged to a religious congregation, down sharply from the 70% who said so as recently as 1999. That figure fluctuated only a few percentage points over a period of six decades beginning in 1937 — the first year of the survey — when 73% of U.S. adults said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque.
I feel terrible for Biden if they manage to do this. He is a very sincere Catholic and he has a very high pressure, important job which holds the lives of countless numbers of people in his hands. And they want to take the comfort of Communion away from him because he allows people to disagree on the question of whether or not to allow abortion. It’s all about them and their control. It’s grotesque.