BIDEN'S "THUMB-IN-THE-EYE" OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

By Tim Rohr

President Biden conferred the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood who oversaw the deaths of an estimated 3.9 million unborn children during her tenure from 2006 to 2018. The Catholic Action League had this to say about it:

LEAGUE CONDEMNS BIDEN AWARD TO FORMER CEO OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD

In a thumb-in-the-eye to the Catholic Church and all pro-life Americans, lame duck President Joe Biden—an alleged Catholic—has conferred the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Cecile Richards.

The closed door ceremony was held earlier today in the White House.

According to the Washington Times, “The ceremony was not listed on Mr. Biden’s public schedule, nor was his decision to award the medal to Ms. Richards publicly announced until after the presentation. Members of the media were not invited to watch the ceremony, which was not live-streamed on the White House website.”

Biden hailed Richards for her “absolute courage and conviction,” calling her “a leader of the utmost character,” who “carved an inspiring legacy that endures.”

Without awareness of irony, Biden spoke of “the countless lives she has made better...”

Richards directed the nation’s largest killing machine, and its lobbying and political arm, from 2006 to 2018. During that time, she presided over the destruction of nearly 3.9 million innocent pre-born children.

It was during Richards’ tenure as CEO that Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in fetal body parts was exposed.

The Catholic Action League called the award by Biden “an appalling betrayal of the Faith of his baptism, and a demonically evil act, which celebrates the willful murder of the innocent, the first of the four sins which ‘crieth to heaven for vengeance.’”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “At the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, mass murderers received a just penalty for their crimes against humanity.

“In Joe Biden’s America, a mass murderer has just been given the country’s highest award.

“How any priest or prelate at Washington’s Saint Matthew’s Cathedral can give a moral monster like Biden Holy Communion staggers the imagination.

“The Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, ought to excommunicate Joe Biden, but he is far too busy closing down Latin Masses to take cognizance of Biden’s latest assault on the beliefs and sensibilities of Catholics.

“Biden’s embrace of the moral equivalent of Adolf Eichmann should put paid to the pretense that some Catholic politicians are ‘personally opposed’ to abortion, but do not wish ‘to impose their religion upon others.’

“No one who has the slightest ethical discomfort with abortion could possibly honor the killer of nearly four million babies.

“In whatever lucid moments which remain to him, Joe Biden ought to ponder the warning given to political leaders by Pope Pius XI about abortion, who wrote ‘And if the public magistrates not only do not defend them [unborn children], but by their laws and ordinances betray them to death at the hands of doctors or of others, let them remember that God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cried from earth to Heaven.’”