AmericanPapist Comments
Does it seem to anyone else like Biden's comments, coming after two weeks of bishops responding to Nancy Pelosi's comments in the same forum, essentially amount to the Catholic pro-choice Dems declaring war on the bishops?
It's like Biden is backing up Pelosi, drawing a line in the sand, and saying to the bishops: "Here we stand. We ignore you. We're Catholic, we publicly stand for abortion, we publicly maintain the validity of this as a Catholic approach. What are you going to do about it?"
It would certainly be odd if Biden's (marginally more nuanced) comments didn't elicit an episcopal response similar to Pelosi's. However, the escalation on the pro-choice-Catholic-Dem side raises a question: What are the bishops going to do? Will they escalate? If so, how?
Looks like you were right. He was in Wilmington yesterday, but had to go to Green Bay today.
SDG, I said precisely the same thing in a comment on AmP's post last night, and expanded on it in my own blog. It's definitely drawing a line in the sand - in both cases aimed at the US Bishops, and more specifically in Biden's case aimed at his brand-newly installed Bishop. Sort of a, "welcome to my turf...this is the line, I dare you to cross it" type of thing.
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