By Aidan O’Connor, Church Militant, October 14, 2021
Urges him to protect life
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (ChurchMilitant.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) pro-life chairman is blasting Joe Biden for claiming to be devout while failing to protect unborn life.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas spoke out Friday, challenging the unelected president to act like the “devout Catholic” he claims to be. Naumann also blasted Biden’s administration for being “in the control of abortion extremists.”
“He likes to call himself a devout Catholic. I would urge him to begin to act like one, especially on the life issues,” fired the archbishop. “And to let his faith really inform his conscience and the decisions that he’s making, not the platform of his party.”
The bishops’ pro-life chairman was reacting to Biden’s recent decision to once again allow taxpayer funding for abortion providers. Last week, Biden’s administration reversed the Trump-era Protect Life Rule, which withheld Title X funding from groups offering or referring mothers to abortion providers. …