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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: cassini on April 05, 2024, 04:10:01 AM
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By Michael Ippolito
Crisis Magazine
April 5, 2024
St. Augustine once commented on the distinction between the heavenly city and the Earthly city, writing, “Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; and the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from men; but the greatest glory of the other is God, the witness of our conscience.”
Look no further for an illustration of this phrase “contempt of God” than the actions of our “devout” Catholic president, Joe Biden.
Any honest observer recognizes that it was no accident that President Biden embraced “transgender day of visibility” even though it fell on the same day as Easter Sunday. It is clear that Joe Biden has apostatized. It is not by his words that he has done so but by his deeds.
This disgraceful action is far from Biden’s first rodeo in endorsing sin. The “Catholic’s” presidency has borne egregious fruit, producing scandals that run contrary to the teachings of the Church. He never intended to be a faithful Catholic but wears his faith as a skinsuit to propel his political career forward. He’ll pay lip service to the Church, such as repeatedly referring to the Rosary his late son gave him, but he does not care about being a faithful Christian.
Biden has opposed the church on almost every major issue. Abortion, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity, transgenderism, the list continues. Worse, he willingly invited the scandalous Fr. James Martin to the White House for a St. Patrick’s Day party. Birds of a feather, I suppose.
Easter Sunday was the culmination of Biden’s phony Catholicism. While faithful Christians sang the Exsultet as Christ opened the gates of heaven, Biden prepared to celebrate the “transgender day of visibility.” To make matters worse, the Biden White House banned all religious designs on any of the Easter eggs displayed or depicted in the Children’s Art Contest. But on cue, Biden denied he did this, responding to a reporter who asked about the controversy, “I didn’t do that.” Should it be mentioned that the word holiday comes from the word “Holy Day.” I think it’s evident which Holy Day Biden celebrates.
Surprisingly, even the liberal Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington D.C. criticized Biden’s blatant failure to practice his faith. In an interview on Face the Nation, his eminence said that the president “picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or contradicting other parts.” Cardinal Gregory even called Biden a “cafeteria Catholic.”
When pressed further on the topic, Cardinal Gregory continued to chastise Biden’s unfaithfulness, stating, “Especially in terms of the life issues, there are things he chooses to ignore, or he uses the current situation as a political pawn.” Cardinal Gregory sees what everyone else sees; Biden does not serve the City of God. Does that mean the Cardinal will have his Ambrosian moment and bar Biden from entering the National Shrine or any other Catholic church until he repents? One can only hope.
Biden the Apostate seeks to uproot any element of an authentic Christian culture and promotes instead the religion of liberalism. June will be for Pride, not for the Sacred Heart. Abortion will be healthcare, not a horrific slaughter. Biden, just like Julian the Apostate, will pervert and abuse Catholicism as a vehicle to advance his liberal crusade.
What can a faithful Catholic do against such evil? The first recourse, as always, must be prayer. As wicked as the Biden administration’s actions have been to the nation and our faith, Biden is made in God’s image and likeness. We have an obligation as Catholics to pray for our lost brother and pray that the leader of the nation confesses his horrible sins and comes back to the true faith.
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Any honest observer recognizes that it was no accident that President Biden embraced “transgender day of visibility” even though it fell on the same day as Easter Sunday. It is clear that Joe Biden has apostatized. It is not by his words that he has done so but by his deeds.
While I agree with the overall conclusion that Biden is an apostate (this has been manifest for a long time), this most likely was an "accident". Biden made March 31 "Transgender Visibility Day" several years ago, and it just happened to fall on Easter Sunday this year. I doubt that Biden was astutely planning this out years ago, "Hmmm. Let me see. In 2020, during the next election cycle, Easter will fall on March 31, so let's make that the day for Transgender Visibility ... just so I can give my political opponent ammunition against me during an election year. Of course, his Jєωιѕн handlers may have wanted exactly that and are smart enough to think ahead like that ... since many Jєωs view Trump as the Messiah-like figure who will help them rebuid the Temple.
In the current political dialectic, a large percentage of the Left (who are not "Evangelicals" have grown hostile toward Israel over what it's doing to Gaza), and so Biden has had to play "tough" against Netanyahu (as much as they'll let him, and it's just lip service for his base). So I fully expect them to re-install Trump for a second term, with the understanding that he's going to further Israeli interests.
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If "Transgender Visibility Day" was put into effect several years ago, misguided though that was, Biden could always just have maintained silence on it.
Of course, if he had done that, transgender people and their allies would have cried foul --- "why didn't you announce our day"?
I know that from time immemorial, there have been people born with birth defects who didn't neatly fall into one sex or the other (some could even have chromosomal abnormalities, and some such defects aren't visible and would never be known without medical intervention), and there are people who have the mental illness of feeling like they've been born in the wrong body, but it seems to have reached epidemic proportions in the past few years. It may be something in the environment (tainted water or food that has been tampered with, e.g., GMO), or what is more likely, demonic influence.
When my mother was growing up on a farm in the hills, some 80-90 years ago, one of the farm hands from the nearby country was what they called a "morphodite" (rustic mispronunciation of "hermaphrodite"), and he was not thought any less of for it --- again, it was a birth defect he couldn't help --- and my grandparents treated him with kindness and dignity, but nobody was agitating for such unfortunates to be thought of as a separate gender. People had some sense back then.
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If "Transgender Visibility Day" was put into effect several years ago, misguided though that was, Biden could always just have maintained silence on it.
Yes, it was the formal announcement on Easter. That announcement could have come years ago although I do find it odd that it was even around in 2009 (I think that was the year I saw mentioned on X). Was it really? Because it seems to me that the whole transgender business didn't become a thing until the COVID years.
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Biden is no different than your average Novus Ordo bishop. Fr Wathen once said, "The Novus Ordo bishop is no better than the worst priest in his diocese." The point is, these NO bishops might not openly promote abortion and Transie behavior, but they promote it by silence. They are no different than the father of a house who lets his daughter fly the rainbow flag on the front porch because he "respects her opinion." These bishops will have a lower place in hell than Biden. That is my opinion.
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Call them by the biblical term which is Sodomite.
When a Catholic widowerer marries a non Catholic divorced woman, it’s called adultery.
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Yes, it was the formal announcement on Easter. That announcement could have come years ago although I do find it odd that it was even around in 2009 (I think that was the year I saw mentioned on X). Was it really? Because it seems to me that the whole transgender business didn't become a thing until the COVID years.
Well, back in the mid 1990’s I knew a man who had two sons by a woman who had deserted him. He seemed like a good father to them and was well liked around town. He usually looked a bit scruffy, then one day I noticed that he had polished himself up and started wearing smart casual. Then I noticed that he started to develop breasts. Word was that he was undergoing treatment for a sex change. Next I heard that he had died of cancer, presumably the result of dangerous drug treatment to expedite the process. And this was in a small town in a fairly remote region. If it could happen there I imagine there would be more in a city.
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Well, back in the mid 1990’s I knew a man who had two sons by a woman who had deserted him. He seemed like a good father to them and was well liked around town. He usually looked a bit scruffy, then one day I noticed that he had polished himself up and started wearing smart casual. Then I noticed that he started to develop breasts. Word was that he was undergoing treatment for a sex change. Next I heard that he had died of cancer, presumably the result of dangerous drug treatment to expedite the process. And this was in a small town in a fairly remote region. If it could happen there I imagine there would be more in a city.
Oh, I don't doubt that it was taking place years ago. I was referring to the public push to accept it. I can see the push to accept gαy marriage at that time (2009), but not transgenderism. The latter seemed to pick up speed during the Covid years.