Objections from Cincinnati Right to Life and other pro-life groups were mounting ahead of the one-hour evening event on the Catholic campus because Biden, who is Catholic, supports keeping abortion legal.
Abortion
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. bishops urge Congress to preserve Hyde Amendment in ‘extreme pro-abortion’ spending bill
“We implore the House Committee on Appropriations to reverse course on these bills that currently expand taxpayer funding of abortion,” Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Naumann said.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Consistent-life-ethic Catholics can (and should) treat abortion as today’s preeminent priority
An authentically Catholic consistent life ethic means treating prenatal children as the equivalent of every other human being.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Catholics: We need to talk about sex, religion and politics.
Marriage. Abortion. Gender identity. Adoption by same-sex couples. What happens if exercising my religious liberty in these areas is perceived as discrimination against another person?
Posted inOpinion, Politics & Society
Common ground in the abortion debate is obvious: Support mothers.
Pro-lifers and pro-choicers should both want to help women and families be in a place to choose to have another child.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Political compromise in a democracy is not a moral evil
Democratic compromise is not a moral evil. And democratic leaders, charged to seek it, are not public sinners. Neither should be combatted with excommunication.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Following contentious debate, bishops vote to proceed with Eucharist statement
Both supporters and critics of the proposal said it could be used to pressure bishops to deny Communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Bishops begin Communion debate with accusations of ‘delaying tactics’ and calls for more discussion
A controversial proposal from the U.S. bishops’ doctrinal committee that seeks approval to begin a process of drafting a document about the Eucharist seems on track to come up for a vote.
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Biden and abortion could change the bishops’ culture of consensus at next week’s USCCB meeting
When U.S. bishops meet virtually next week, most eyes will be focused on a controversial vote related to the Eucharist that some fear politicizes Communion by taking aim at the nation’s second Catholic president.
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The U.S. bishops should stop singling out abortion as the ‘pre-eminent’ issue for Catholic voters
And three other ways they can improve their Catholic voting guide before the next election.