“Did a sensitive, intellectually alert priest see in me a young protégé, perhaps a future seminarian? Or was a lonely man impelled by a less salutary desire?”
Some conservative Catholics and U.S. bishops are eager to exploit any controversy over Biden’s Catholicism, but in doing so they reveal their hypocrisy.
Instead of behaving ecclesially, the USCCB has been behaving politically, ignoring fraternal relationships between bishops and fighting against the pope.
“She was not patient. She was not kind. Edna was not the neighbor ready with a warm welcome when we bought the house on Harrison Street next door to hers.”
“Without a dedication to the truth of the equal sacred dignity and worth of every human being, life together is endangered, compromised, even impossible.”
Rev. Raphael Warnock’s victory shows how a new moral majority—multiracial and interfaith—can begin to reclaim faith from the grip of reactionary white Christians.
