Bishops for Biden
San Diego’s Robert McElroy emerges as another one.
by George Neumayr
October 18, 2020, 12:04 AM
Should Biden win the presidency, he will be the “second practicing Catholic†to hold that office, the media informs us without irony. Neither John F. Kennedy, with his prodigious womanizing, nor Biden, with his open hostility to Church teaching, justify that label. If anything, Biden has promised not to practice his faith. Like JFK, Biden believes in the strict separation of church and state, though not in the separation of religion from campaigning. Needing to win the Catholic vote, Biden has been playing up his Catholic roots, tattered as they are. As the media puts it, he is seeking the support of “Catholics like himself.â€
Any bishop who minimizes the slaughter of the unborn as a “single question of public policy†should hang up his mitre.
They mirror Biden both in his politics and in his dissenting Catholicism. Last month, Joseph Tobin of Newark, who is one of the most powerful cardinals in the world, revealed that he supported Biden over Trump. Tobin said Catholics could vote for Biden in “good conscience,†adding that “I, frankly, in my own way of thinking have a more difficult time with the other option.â€
Biden has long maintained friendly ties with left-wing bishops — the defrocked rapist Theodore McCarrick served as a concelebrant at Beau Biden’s funeral — and now those prelates are running interference for him. The latest bishop to throw dust into Catholics’ eyes about Biden is Robert McElroy, the bishop of San Diego.
Feverishly political and theologically blasé, McElroy is the quintessential Francis-style bishop. Before his posting to San Diego, he served as an aide to the uber-liberal archbishop John Quinn in San Francisco. In that role, McElroy got entangled in various revealing controversies, such as the time he offered his support to a gay adoption agency in Oakland.
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