President Biden’s inauguration marked a historic moment when he became the second Roman Catholic to serve as president of the United States. The White House says Biden is “devout”, but many in the church leadership and among the grassroots have denounced his policies.
Biden’s faith became a problem early in the campaign, when a South Carolina priest denied him communion with the then-candidate’s pro-abortion views. Cardinal Raymond Burke said in the same way that Biden was not a Catholic in “good standing” and should not receive communion, explaining that supporting abortion was a deadly sin.
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Some in the media supported Biden’s position as a Catholic.
The New York Times was met with criticism when it published an article this month stating that Biden was “perhaps the most religious commander in chief in half a century”.
The Washington Post similarly published an article contesting Trump’s claims that Biden “hurt God”. “Biden spent his life extracting his Catholic faith,” read an August headline. Another from December stated that “Biden could redefine what it means to be a Catholic today.”
But with a series of actions that many claim to contradict Catholic doctrine, the first weeks of his administration raised questions about his approach to his faith.
Abortion and contraception
Perhaps the biggest complaints from critics with Biden revolve around his adoption of policies that favor abortion.
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In his first two weeks, Biden revoked the Mexico City Policy, which blocks funding for abortion providers abroad; took a first step towards restoring Title X funding for Planned Parenthood and other domestic abortion providers; and expressed support for the codification of the historic decision in Roe v. Wade.
He also intends to repeal the Hyde Amendment that blocks taxpayer funding for most abortions. For years, Biden supported the decades-old bipartisan policy with the argument that religious Americans should not have to pay for procedures they oppose. In 2019, he reversed his stance on politics.
Without Hyde, Biden will effectively be forcing taxpayers to subsidize abortion – leading pro-life people to describe his administration as extreme. Biden and Vice President Harris joined others in alleging that abortion is a critical form of “health care”, despite Church leaders denouncing the procedure as harmful to women and children. For example, the head of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference similarly warned on the day of inauguration that Biden “would advance moral evils and threaten human life”.
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Sex, gender and sexuality
Last week, a group of bishops argued that one of Biden’s orders presented “false theories about human sexuality” and “threatens to infringe on the rights of people who recognize the truth of sexual difference or who advocate the institution of lifelong marriage between a man and a man. woman. “
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This particular order undertook to interpret sexual discrimination as including that which occurred “on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation”.
The order, which aims to “prevent and combat discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation”, calls on schools across the country to allow those who identify as transgender to participate in the sex sport with which they identify and use the bathrooms and changing rooms of the genre with which they identify.
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In 2019, the Vatican released a document – entitled “Man and Woman Who Created Them” – arguing that gender theory “speaks of a gradual process of denaturalization, which is a departure from nature and towards an absolute option for the decision to the feelings of the human subject. “