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Nancy Pelosi's Archbishop Issues a Major Declaration About Prominent Catholics Who Support 'The Evil of Abortion' Jack Davis May 3, 2021 at 8:04am
Nancy Pelosi's Archbishop Issues a Major Declaration About Prominent Catholics Who Support 'The Evil of Abortion'
The Catholic archbishop whose archdiocese includes abortion advocate and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is laying down the law in terms of pro-abortion Catholics receiving the sacrament of Communion.
A pastoral letter from the Most Rev. Salvatore Joseph Cordileone of San Francisco directly mentions neither Pelosi nor President Joe Biden, another high-profile Catholic who strongly supports abortion.
After months of rumblings by some Catholic leaders that Biden’s embrace of abortion flouts Catholic doctrine, American bishops will vote in June on a document outlining whether high-profile pro-abortion Catholics such as the president should be discouraged from receiving Communion.
Cordlieone’s letter, published Saturday, argues that when attempts to alter the pro-abortion mindset of an erring public figure fail, as they usually do, Catholic clergy must do more than just talk.
“Because 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. As seen above, this discipline has been exercised throughout our history, going back to the New Testament,” Cordileone wrote.
“When other avenues are exhausted, the only recourse a pastor has left is the public medicine of temporary exclusion from the Lord’s Table. This is a bitter medicine, but the gravity of the evil of abortion can sometimes warrant it.”
In reporting on the letter, The Washington Post reached out to Pelosi but did not receive a comment.
Cordileone said that even amid all of the other issues that beset American society, abortion cannot be ignored because “abortion is a specific act that perpetuates a grave moral evil. It is not an attitude that can manifest itself in more serious and less serious ways, nor a matter of prudential judgment in which one decides the best path toward achieving the good.”
“Indeed, when one looks directly at what actually happens in an abortion, it is hard to imagine anything more heinously evil. One such thing is genocide. But with almost one out of five pregnancies in the United States ending in abortion, what we are witnessing before our very eyes is, effectively, a genocide against the unborn,” he wrote.
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The archbishop said those who are leaders bear responsibility for the policies they promote.
“Prominent figures in society help to shape the mores of that society, and in our culture their advocacy of abortion definitely leads others to do evil. This must be stated with clarity: anyone who actively works to promote abortion shares some of the guilt for the abortions performed because of their actions,” he wrote.
The archbishop sent a direct message to Catholic politicians who cheer on abortion in between trips to the altar for Communion.
“Your Catholic ideals inspire you in your work to help those who experience discrimination, violence, and injustice, and you deserve the gratitude of your fellow Catholics and our nation for this service. But we cannot empower the weak by crushing the weakest! A compassionate, inclusive society must make room at the table for the most defenseless, and it should help a woman to keep her unborn child, not kill her or him,” he wrote.
“If you find that you are unwilling or unable to abandon your advocacy for abortion, you should not come forward to receive Holy Communion. To publicly affirm the Catholic faith while at the same time publicly rejecting one of its most fundamental teachings is simply dishonest.”
The letter also includes a general plea to Catholics in public life who support abortion.
“[T]he killing must stop. Please, please, please: the killing must stop. God has entrusted you with a prestigious position in society. You have the power to affect societal practices and attitudes. Always remember that you will one day have to render an account to God for your stewardship of this trust. You are in a position to do something concrete and decisive to stop the killing,” he wrote.
“Please stop the killing. And please stop pretending that advocating for or practicing a grave moral evil — one that snuffs out an innocent human life, one that denies a fundamental human right — is somehow compatible with the Catholic faith. It is not.
“Please return home to the fullness of your Catholic faith. We await you with open arms to welcome you back.”
The archbishop wrote that it was necessary to speak out against a “source of scandal that pertains specifically to Catholics in public life: if their participation in the evil of abortion is not addressed forthrightly by their pastors, this can lead Catholics (and others) to assume that the moral teaching of the Catholic Church on the inviolate sanctity of human life is not seriously held.”
“When public figures identify themselves as Catholics and yet actively oppose one of the most fundamental doctrines of the Church — the inherent dignity of each and every human being and therefore the absolute prohibition of taking innocent human life — we pastors have a responsibility both to them and to the rest of our people,” he wrote.
“Our responsibility to them is to call 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.”
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GOP Responds to Biden's Plan to Give Cash to Corrupt Central American Countries Jack Cowhick May 3, 2021 at 5:51pm
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GOP Responds to Biden's Plan to Give Cash to Corrupt Central American Countries
A month after the Biden administration released its ridiculous plan to send foreign aid to Central America, House Republicans questioned the strategy in a letter released Monday.
Republican Reps. James Comer and Jason Smith, of Kentucky and Missouri respectively, addressed their letter to acting Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, expressing their concern over a “conditional cash transfer program” directed towards residents of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
As Comer and Smith wrote, “the purpose of such a program would be to discourage illegal immigration from these Northern Triangle countries.”
Former southern border coordinator for the Biden administration, Roberta Jackson, described the plan last month to Reuters, explaining the plan came as a result of the administration “looking at all of the productive options to address both the economic reasons people may be migrating, as well as the protection and security reasons.”
In other words, the idea is essentially to pay potential migrants to stay in their own countries.
Comer and Smith wrote, “In the midst of a border crisis propelled by the Biden Administration reversing successful deterrent policies, it is worrisome that the Administration’s solution isn’t to reinstate those policies or replace them with workable solutions, but instead to funnel more money to pay countries to dissuade their citizens to break U.S. laws, particularly countries with corruption concerns.”
This corruption is a true threat to potential foreign aid. In one declassified State Department report, over 50 former or current senior government officials working in the Northern Triangle countries are “credibly accused” of various acts of corruption, including money laundering and embezzlement.
Rather than admit that they could have possibly done wrong in the way of policy decisions, Biden and his team are determined to shrug off responsibility and keep their woke policy in place while wasting the money of taxpayers on government officials who will, most likely, use their money to aid themselves or drug cartels.
Will the Biden administration go through with its plan?
While Jackson did assure Reuters that the Biden administration “isn’t gonna be handing money or checks to people,” Comer and Jackson were seemingly unphased. They continued in their letter, “The President’s fiscal year (FY) 2022 discretionary budget request includes $861 million in financial assistance to Central America ‘to address the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States.’
“That request — which is much higher than current funding levels which already stand at around half a billion dollars — is couched as merely ‘ first step toward a four-year commitment of $4 billion’ of the region.”
$4 billion dollars of American money, meant to improve poverty in Central America and stem immigration to the southern border, going directly to some of the most corrupt men and women on the continent.
They might as well throw our money in paper shredders.
Even the Trump administration used foreign aid to its advantage. As the letter reads, “Unlike the Trump Administration, which leveraged the use of aid to secure actual cooperation from Northern Triangle countries on migration issues, the Biden administration has simply announced this ‘commitment’ with apparently no strings attached.”
The Trump administration cut off foreign aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in June 2019, after former President Donald Trump slammed the countries for not doing more to stop their citizens from storming America’s southern border.
Just four months after the cut-off, though, aid was reinstated by Trump as the three countries had “signed historic Asylum Cooperation Agreements and are working to end the scourge of human smuggling.” As a result, the administration began to give aid to the countries in order to assist them in the process.
Trump used foreign aid in order to get a better deal for Americans. Now, the Biden plan will seemingly give billions of dollars to those same countries for doing absolutely nothing.
Comer and Smith also slammed the Biden administration for refusing to take responsibility for their border crisis, writing that the “root causes of the current border crisis” are, in fact, the administration’s policy and rhetoric which has catalyzed one of the largest illegal immigration surges in recent history.
Biden’s role in pulling immigrants to the border isn’t in question, either. Immigrants along the border have repeatedly told news outlets and authorities that they wouldn’t have come to the country if not for Biden being elected, while some even wave the president’s campaign flag.
Unfortunately for the wallets and livelihoods of millions of Americans, though, the Biden administration refuses to admit as much.
Comer and Smith continued, “The strategy of sending cash payments to foreign countries to stem the tide of illegal immigration caused by Biden Administration policies is naïve and misguided.”
“Moreover, the countries identified as potential recipients include some of the most corrupt countries in the world, with El Salvador and Guatemala ranking in the top ten. This raises further concerns that such aid would simply be wasted on corrupt politicians and organizations serving their own interests, and not those of the interests of the American people.”
The representatives capped off the letter with multiple requests for information from Young, including “documents and communications” revolving around the Biden plan, seemingly aiming to expose whether the plan is in action or not.
It’s unclear whether the Biden administration will go through with the plan, and to what scale it will be implemented. Thankfully, though, Republicans are keeping an eye on the president and will call out the insanity of the Biden administration as long as it continues.
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