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By Mary Hansen, OnePeterFive, January 25, 2021

Mary Hansen writes at MadonnasOfMexico.com. She is a former teacher and writes for the National Catholic Register, The Catholic Register and OnePeterFive. She has a B.A. from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) and an M.Ed. and a Master of Divinity from St. Michael’s (Toronto). She writes from Ontario, Canada.

 

Last week, Catholic Joe Biden, the most pro-abortion president in American history, was sworn in as the country’s 46th president. It was the perfect teaching moment for Catholic leaders. The world was watching!

Yet when the President of the USCCB, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, commented that Biden’s agenda “promotes policies that would advance moral evils,” Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago issued “a scathing tweet,” sorely annoyed by the mention of abortion in the document. A Prince of the Church! And another Prince of the Church, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., had already affirmed that he would be giving Biden Communion. Yet another leader of the church, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, stated that a Catholic could vote for a democrat in good conscience. This was before the election. Such events made me think of the messages of Our Lady of La Salette. Which occurred 175 years ago. But they seem as relevant to our times now as they did so many decades ago. …

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