***Cynical Joe Biden Parades his Faux Catholic Faith! In an attempt to deceive Catholics, Biden is running ads wearing his faith on his sleeve and claiming it influences his life. Don’t believe it! Real Catholics don’t champion murdering babies in the womb, persecute nuns who serve the poor, witness faux marriages of same sex couples, or lie and plagiarize. They don’t fondle little girls and sniff and grope adult women or steal another man’s wife. They don’t slander their political opponents in an attempt to destroy them. Remember who Joe’s mentor was, Ted Kennedy, another faux Catholic and womanizer who let a young woman drown and then lied to save his political career. Kennedy and Biden, two peas in a pod, slandered Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. They sank Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court through calumy and lies and tried to do the same to Thomas. If Biden/Harris are elected we’ll have Marxism on steroids! Pass this info on!

***Meanwhile, What do our Bishops do? Anyone...? Hear the crickets? Most bishops are too busy worrying about climate change, supporting illegal immigration, and bending the knee to their governors’ virus mandates to worry about the little ones in the womb. Thank God for a few exceptions. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, TX is an outspoken defender of the faith who publicly supported Fr. James Altman of La Crosse when he warned Catholics that they can’t be Democrats. (Read their platform!) Are there a few pro-life Democrats who stay in the party to try to change it from the inside? Maybe...but at this point, it seems a hopeless strategy. Democrats stand for evils so egregious they resemble the Nazi and Communist parties.

***Roll Call of Bishops Taking a Stand is Sparse! Besides Bishop Strickland, only a few bishops have addressed Biden’s religious hypocrisy. He shamelessly touts his bogus faith in ads targeting Catholics, but few bishops challenge him. A handful have. Cardinal Burke stated in August that Biden is not a Catholic in good standing and should not approach for Communion. Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence tweeted sarcastically, “Biden-Harris. First time in awhile that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had a Catholic on it. Sad” On October 7th, Feast of the Holy Rosary, Tobin tweeted again, “Joe Biden promises that if he’s elected president, he will end division and bring the country together. It won’t happen. With his politically expedient embrace of a very extreme position on abortion, he’s already alienated half of the nation.” Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, TN also tweeted, “Don’t understand how Mr. Biden can claim to be a good and faithful Catholic as he denies so much of Church teaching especially on the absolute child abuse and human rights violations of the most innocent, the not yet born.” These shepherds are among the minority defending the little ones in the womb.

***Tweets are good, but can we have some teaching? Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, IL addressed the issue more fully in a column in his diocesan paper. He reminded the flock that the U.S. bishops’ declared abortion the “preeminent” moral issue at their meeting last year. “[Abortion] directly attacks life itself, because it takes place within the sanctuary of the family, and because of the number of lives destroyed....Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Dick Durbin, the Democratic Party candidates for president, vice-president, and U.S. Senate (Illinois), respectively, all support the Democratic Party Platform promoting abortion and calling for the use of federal taxpayer funding of abortion and the appointment of pro-abortion judges. Biden also pledged to restore the Obama-Biden policy that mandates churches, businesses, colleges, and religious orders like the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide coverage for abortion pills in their employees’ health insurance plans.” Thank you, Bishop Paprocki!

***From Bishop James Johnston of KS City-St. Joseph  In Preparing to Vote, Bishop Johnston clearly identifies the seriousness of this election and the obligation of Catholic voters. He writes: “I encourage you to study prayerfully the political platforms of the parties. Each party clearly states their position on critical life issues such as abortion, destructive research on human embryos, euthanasia and assisted suicide, the appointment of judges and Supreme Court Justices and conscience rights. Each party clearly states whether they will support or defund Planned Parenthood as well as their position regarding laws such as the Hyde Amendment that bars the use of federal funds to support abortion. Each party states the criteria they will use to nominate judges and justices. Each party states where it stands on subjects that impact the family such as how sex education, orientation and gender identity will be taught in our public schools. Each party has staked out its position on upholding or weakening religious liberty and the freedom of believers and churches to live according to religious beliefs and carry out ministries and services without coercion and the threat of penalty....[P]latforms do offer a good insight into the agendas of the candidates and how they intend to use power if elected. Again, there can be legitimate debate between parties and candidates as to the best policy to address an issue; however, this is not the same as disagreement on fundamental principles. The question prayerfully to ask ourselves then, is whether it is permissible to vote for a candidate whose positions oppose the truth of fundamental principles because one likes the candidate’s policy stance on other issues.” Clear and Concise! He stirred the hive of liberal Catholics who began immediately attacking him for speaking the truth. Are we surprised? Pray for bishops who act like shepherds! Other bishops stressing life as the preeminent moral issue in the election are Samuel Aquila of Denver, Alfred Schlert, of Allentown, David Zubik of Pittsburgh, and Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis. With over 400 active and retired bishops, where are all the rest?

***The Other Tobin of Newark Scandalizes the Flock!
Cardinal Joseph Tobin effectively endorsed Biden at a panel discussion at Boston College in September saying “I, frankly, in my own way of thinking, have a more difficult time with the other option [Trump].” He said Catholics could “in good conscience” vote for virulently pro-abortion Biden claiming he wasn’t endorsing him. Who does he think he’s kidding? The U.S. bishops’ document on Faithful Citizenship reads: “A Catholic who rejects a candidate's unacceptable position on policies promoting an intrinsically evil act may decide to vote for that candidate for other morally grave reasons. Voting in this way would be permitted only for truly grave moral reasons, not to advance narrow interests or partisan preferences or to ignore a fundamental moral evil.” Tobin declined to say what other “morally grave reasons” could possibly justify a vote for Biden saying, “I suppose if somebody was running on a nuclear war platform, advocating a holocaust, worldwide incineration, that might be the single issue that could make the discernment a lot easier.” Seems the holocaust killing 52 million unborn babies in the United States alone doesn’t count in Tobin’s ledger. To put it in perspective, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki directly or indirectly killed about a quarter of a million. Maybe Cardinal Tobin needs to revisit his remarks!

***USCCB Past& Present Staff Endorse Biden/Harris!
Most bishops may be silent, but liberal staff members of the USCCB (past and present) enthusiastically embrace the pro-abortion ticket. Donna Toliver Grimes, Assistant Director of African American Affairs, publicly gushed being “elated” by Harris’ nomination, calling it “just wonderful.” Grimes suffered no penalty unlike former spokeswoman for the conference, Judy Keane who tweeted positively about Donald Trump and was immediately suspended and then forced out. The USCCB is notoriously liberal. John Carr, former head of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the Conference promoted abortion. In fact, working for Jimmy Carter, Carr advised more access to abortion and contraception. At the USCCB he justified grants to groups advancing abortion. In a recent article in America he urged support for Biden/Harris, the most pro-abortion ticket in history. Other former USCCB staff shilling for Biden/Harris include Francis Xavier Doyle, past Associate General Secretary, Dolores Leckey, past Executive Director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth and Frank Monahan, past director of the Office of Government Liaison. The USCCB is a bastion of support for pro-abortion liberals funding intrinsic evil through grants to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Charities, and Catholic Relief Services. It’s time for a Catholic “Never the USCCB” movement. Shut it down!

***From  the  “IT’S  ABOUT  TIME”  Department!!!
After months of watching Catholic dioceses bend the knee to state tyrants attacking religion, one diocese is fighting back. In early October New York’s tyrant-in-chief, Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order for Queens, Brooklyn, and other “hot spots” in the state limiting religious services to 10 people. Count ‘em...TEN PEOPLE! Makes sense, eh, in a cathedral that seats several thousand or a parish church  holding hundreds? Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (Brooklyn) had enough. He called it “an insult... to once again penalize all those who have made the safe return to Church work.... The executive orders this week have left us with no other option than to go to court.” (Remember how Cuomo lit up buildings around the state in pink last year to celebrate signing a law allowing child killing up until birth? Wearing a bright pink tie for the occasion and surrounded by gleeful harpies like Roe v. Wade lawyer Sarah Weddington, who lied her way to the decision, Cuomo looked like a warlock at a witches’ sabbath sporting the knife for the human sacrifice. The Aztecs would be proud! Cuomo threatened not only to fine churches who defy his order, but to shut them down warning, “If you do not agree to enforce the rules, then we’ll close the institutions down. I am prepared to do that.” Pray for the Diocese of Brooklyn as they stand against this Democrat bully who killed thousands of nursing home residents by forcing long term facilities to readmit coronavirus-infected patients.

***Minnesota bishops also challenged their governor Without going to court. The six Minnesota Catholic bishops teamed up with the Missouri-Synod Lutheran church to buck Democrat Governor Tim Walz’s order limiting religious services to ten people. (What’s with Democrats’ fixation on the number ten?) Like Cuomo’s over-reach, the draconian order was more lenient for so called essential services like bars and restaurants. The popular tourist attraction, the Mall of America was allowed 50% capacity. Becket Fund intervention brought the governor to the negotiating table. The documents are available on their website, becketlaw.org. Consider a donation!