Now, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has said Biden “is not in communion with the Catholic faith.” He also said “any priest who now provides Communion to the president participates in his hypocrisy.”
Chaput’s comments came during his address called “Do this in Remembrance of Me: Memory, Culture, Sacrament” at the Diocese of Arlington on Saturday.
“When you freely break communion with the Church of Jesus Christ and her teachings, you can’t pretend to be in communion when it’s convenient. That’s a form of lying.”
He also spoke about “American Catholics and our 200-year struggle to fit into mainstream American culture.”
“We succeeded. But in the process, we’ve been digested and bleached out by the culture, rather than leavening it in a fertile way with a distinctive Catholic witness. Mr. Biden’s apostasy on the abortion issue is only the most repugnant example. He’s not alone. But in a sane world, his unique public leadership would make — or should make — public consequences unavoidable.”
Chaput also addressed “even many who regularly attend Sunday Mass” who “no longer believe in the Real Sacrifice or the Real Presence.”
“We’ve forgotten who we are as a believing people. This is both a cause and a symptom of today’s lukewarm Catholic spirit, in our nation’s culture and within the Church herself. But that can change, and it needs to change, starting with each of us here.”
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