Biden is not Catholic, says Archbishop Chaput

Archbishop Charles Chaput stated on Saturday that Joe Biden “is not in communion with the Catholic Church” and that “any priest who currently administers Communion to the president is complicit in his hypocrisy.”

The 78-year-old prelate, speaking at a Eucharistic Symposium hosted by the Diocese of Arlington on October 22, also accused the second Catholic president in United States history of “apostasy on the abortion question.”

In his lecture entitled “Do This in Memory of Me: Memory, Culture, and Sacrament,” the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia discussed “American Catholics and our 200-year fight to assimilate into mainstream American culture.”

“We prevailed. “In the process, we’ve been digested and whitened by culture, rather than enriching it with a distinctive Catholic message,” Chaput remarked.

The archbishop stated, “Mr. Biden’s defection on the question of abortion is only the most offensive example. He has company. In a reasonable environment, though, his exceptional public leadership would render — or should render — public repercussions inevitable.”

“You cannot pretend to be in communion when you voluntarily abandon communion with the Church of Jesus Christ and her teachings,” Chaput remarked.

“This is a type of lying. Mr. Biden is not a member of the Catholic church. And every priest who now administers the Eucharist to the president is complicit in his hypocrisy.”

Despite the Catholic Church’s teaching that abortion is a grave evil and that human life is sacrosanct from the moment of conception, Biden supports abortion.

The Obama said again last week that he would codify Roe v. Wade if the Democrats win the midterm elections in November.

As previously reported by CNA, he stated unequivocally that he will sign the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), a radical piece of abortion legislation that would prohibit any limitations on abortion before and beyond fetal viability.

Chaput stated in his message that many Catholics, including many who attend Sunday Mass regularly, no longer believe in the Real Sacrifice or the Real Presence.

“We have forgotten who we are as a people of faith. This is both a cause and a symptom of today’s lukewarm Catholic attitude, both in the culture of our society and within the Church “he remarked. “This, however, can and must change, beginning with everyone of us here.”

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