Who would have imagined that American Catholics are more conservative than the Vatican?
This showdown could get interesting.
US Catholic bishops are on a potential collision course with President Joe Biden after voting to commission a document that may call for him to be barred from Holy Communion.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) clashed online over whether to draw up a teaching document on politicians who support abortion.
Holy Communion is the most important ritual in the Catholic Christian faith.
The Catholic president regularly attends Mass.
Responding to news of the bishops’ vote, he said: “That’s a private matter and I don’t think that’s gonna happen.”
The Vatican has already indicated its opposition to the bishops’ move.
Oh, the satanic Anal Pope is shilling for abortion?
Imagine my shock.
After the debate on Thursday, the Most Reverend Allen H Vigneron, vice-president of the USCCB, announced the move had passed by 168 to 55, with six abstentions.
The US clergy is deeply divided on the issue.
Really?
Because 168-55 indicates that the divide is not really that deep. Seems to me those numbers signal a relatively shallow divide.
The Most Rev Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, warned such a document would lead to the “weaponisation” of the Eucharist (the more formal name name for Holy Communion).
However, the Most Rev Liam Cary, the bishop of Baker, Oregon, said the Church was in an “unprecedented situation”, with “a Catholic president who is opposed to the teaching” of the Church.
The BBC kindly goes on to explain future stages of this process.
It’s almost impossible to believe Biden could actually be kicked out of communion – but it looks like that is going to happen.
Some totally anal bishops will allow Baby-Killer “Vaxxy” Joe to take part in a corrupted and satanic ceremony.
The document will now be drafted by the doctrine committee of US bishops.
However, although it will be a form of national policy, it will not be binding. Each individual bishop has the right to decide who should be blocked from the Mass in his diocese.
The document will return for debate at the next bi-annual US Catholic Bishops Conference in November.
The controversial issue of whether politicians who support abortion should attend Mass has become more prominent with the election of Mr Biden as president.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, warned most priests would be “puzzled to hear that bishops now want to talk about excluding people at a time when the real challenge before them is welcoming people back to the regular practice of the faith and rebuilding their communities”.
The reason people left in the first place is that the Catholic Church went anal!
No one likes this!
If they want to attend “The Holy Church of the Sacred Anus,” they can just turn on Netflix! It’s all anal, all the time!
People would come back to the church, and in fact new people, alienated by the Judeo-Christian evangelical church, would join Catholicism – if it took a hard line and stood for something! That is obvious!
And even if it wasn’t obvious – the right thing would still be the right thing, no matter who opposed it – even if it was opposed by the “Harbinger of Devastation” Vaxxy Joe!
Thankfully, it seems that we’ve underestimated American Catholics.
Bring back Christianity!