Fr. Roger Landry: How to Respond to Prodigal Catholic Public Figures?
February 9, 2021Americans Last, by Rodney Pelletier
February 10, 2021
By Declan Leary, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 10, 2021
Mr. Leary is the Collegiate Network Fellow at The American Conservative and a graduate of John Carroll University.
On the few occasions that the USCCB has, as a body, decided to publicly criticize now-President Joe Biden for his more egregious rejections of Church teaching, a reminder has always been included that the bishops eagerly look forward to working with the new administration on those issues in which Biden’s politics do not contradict (or, at least, do not override) his professed Catholic faith. Thus, while the bishops condemn (as well they should) the president’s decision to send American tax dollars overseas to fund abortion, they heartily commend his endeavors in other tense areas of the social, political, and economic arenas. …