Tier ranking the most pro-life US bishops
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Summary
Impeachment hearings in the Senate against former President Donald Trump will go on, but a new impeachment against Joe Biden has just been filed. Meanwhile, President Biden s so-called Catholicism is coming into sharp focus as he presses on with anti-life and anti-family measures, all the while receiving Holy Communion and with a photo of himself alongside Pope Francis as one of the new decorations in the Oval Office. Also, the leftist bishops named cardinals by Pope Francis are furiously trying to stamp out public criticism of President Biden's pro-abortion stance. But that has finally aroused something of a fighting spirit in conservative bishops in America.
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Impeachment hearings in the Senate against former President Donald Trump will go on,
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but a new impeachment against Joe Biden has just been filed.
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Meanwhile, President Biden's so-called Catholicism is coming into sharp focus
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as he presses on with anti-life and anti-family measures,
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all the while receiving Holy Communion and with a photo of himself alongside Pope Francis
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as one of the new decorations in the Oval Office.
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Also, the leftist bishops named cardinals by Pope Francis are furiously trying to stamp out public criticism
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but that has finally aroused something of a fighting spirit in conservative bishops in America.
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This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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The political climate for the Biden administration is now similar to that of the Trump administration.
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Already, papers have been filed for Biden's impeachment. Check this out.
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Just filed articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden. We'll see how this goes.
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That was Representative Marjorie Taylor from, Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia,
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who in her opening statement calling for Biden's impeachment said, and I quote,
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President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency.
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His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama's vice president is lengthy and disturbing.
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President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son Hunter
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and line his family's pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies.
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She continued saying President Biden is even on tape admitting to a quid pro quo
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with the Ukrainian government threatening to withhold $1 billion in foreign aid if they do not do his bidding.
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President Biden, she said, residing in the White House is a threat to national security
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and he must be immediately impeached, end quote.
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Meanwhile, the Democrats in the Senate intend to pursue post-term impeachment of President Trump
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with this hilarious announcement from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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The House will deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate.
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The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump.
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And when that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John, Donald
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John Trump incited the erection, insurrection against the United States.
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Boy, doesn't that make you wonder about what exactly is on people's minds.
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In other news, the Polish government has issued a diplomatic passport to a Polish patient dying
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from the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in an English hospital.
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According to multiple Polish media sources, the Polish government has issued the passport
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in an attempt to remove the brain-damaged Polish patient from the power of the British courts.
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One Polish conservative news outlet has reported that the passport is already on its way to London.
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The scandal of the British courts effectively sentencing a Polish citizen, in the words of
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Poland's top archbishop, to death by starvation, is a cause celeb in his birth country, though
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largely passed over in cold silence by his adopted country of England.
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LifeSite News delivered a petition of 25,000 signatures to the government in Britain to protest
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John Smeaton, the chief executive of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, was pleased
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to deliver the LifeSite News petition to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
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I'm John Smeaton, the chief executive of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
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And I'm here in Whitehall, London today to present a petition on behalf of LifeSite News and its
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worldwide readership to the UK's foreign secretary, Dominic Raab.
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The family of a pro-life Catholic Polish man has been fighting for this man's life for weeks
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now, as British legal and hospital authorities seek to deny him food and fluids while he lies
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Also today marks the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, with the tragic reality that over 60 million
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innocent unborn babies were murdered in their mother's wombs with the consent of the law.
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The devastation is impossible even to comprehend.
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As their blood cries out to heaven for vengeance, we commend their souls to Almighty God this day.
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As Joe Biden settles into the Oval Office, one of the popular topics is the office decor,
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But one of the pieces in the new Oval Office is very concerning indeed.
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On a table behind his desk is a photo of Biden with Pope Francis.
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And this brings into sharp focus the most damaging aspect of this presidency, his claim to be Catholic.
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The colossal damage of his claiming to be Catholic alongside his stance in favor of the slaughter
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of innocent unborn babies in their mother's wombs, with over a million of these American babies
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being murdered each and every year, is totally staggering.
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Just yesterday, Biden's chief medical advisor, Anthony Fauci, announced that Biden would be
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revoking the Mexico City policy, which forbade U.S. family planning funds from supporting groups
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Now this will serve to increase abortion, not only in the USA, but abroad, and also increase
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U.S. taxpayer dollars behind lobbying to have other governments permit the killing of babies
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For Catholics who have faith, these things are devastating.
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But there are those, even among the hierarchy, who seem not at all bothered by the situation.
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In fact, they seem downright pleased about the current scenario.
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D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory was one of the first religious leaders to do a prayer service
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with the new president on the night of the inauguration.
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May our prayer strengthen our awareness of our common humanity
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and our national unity at a time when harmony is a balm that seeks to comfort and strengthen
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us as a single people facing a common threat that is no respecter of age, race, culture, or gender.
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Let us with one heart commend those who have died from this virus and all of their loved ones
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to the providential care of the one who is the ultimate source of peace, unity, and concord.
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Remember, Wilton Gregory was recently made Cardinal by Pope Francis.
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And while he was still in Rome, he announced that he would not forbid Holy Communion,
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That position is totally anti-Catholic in every sense.
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Not only does it cause massive scandal for the faithful who see in this cardinal that there is
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It shows a total lack of belief in the scriptures, too, where we are told that those who eat and drink
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the Lord unworthily do so to their own condemnation.
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We heard yesterday that Cardinals Blaise Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark both objected
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to the statement from the U.S. Bishops' Conference, President Jose Gomez, because it contained criticism
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Well, Cardinal Cupich has now gone public with his behind-the-scenes criticism of his brother
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He complained publicly that the statement, which warned against Joe Biden's promotion
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of moral evils in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender, was, in the words
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Cupich whined about the statement not being approved by him and his like-minded cronies,
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crafted without the involvement of the administrative committee, a collegial consultation that is
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normal course for statements that represent and enjoy the considered endorsement of the
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Cardinal Cupich added that, well, he demanded that what he called, and I quote,
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the internal institutional failures, that is, failures of the Bishops' Conference, must
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be addressed, all, of course, in the name of, what?
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We must actually pray for the conversion of Cardinal Cupich and others like him in the Church,
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whose status as shepherds that are actually supposed to lead the flock to Christ makes them
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in grave danger, because that position of shepherd is called to a lot at their final judgments,
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Let's turn all of that, what is really frustration and anger, maybe even justice, justly so,
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but into prayer for the conversion of his soul.
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But there's also great news in the midst of what seems like all gloom.
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That kerfuffle among the bishops has finally moved some bishops to speak out.
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More than a dozen bishops have come out in the face of the backlash against Archbishop
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Gomez's statement to back the criticism of Biden's anti-life stance.
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It actually works as a handy tier ranking of the American hierarchy.
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I'm sure it's not a full list, but it's the ones we caught at LifeSite, and it's a good list.
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The pride of place, of course, belongs to Bishop Joseph Strickland.
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He's the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, who has stood strong and solid on matters of life and family
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like no other bishop in the United States, or for most of the world, for that matter.
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In addition to Bishop Strickland, here are the rest of the top tier of U.S. bishops.
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There's Archbishop Samuel Aquila, Denver, Colorado.
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There's Archbishop Salvatore Cordelione of San Francisco, California.
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There's Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois.
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Bishop Kevin Rhodes of Fort Wayne, South Bend, Indiana.
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Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island.
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Bishop Alexander, or Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon.
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And that rounds out our list of the archbishops and bishops.
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If you ever wanted an example of the kind of messed up faith you can get to with poor and scandalous
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religious leadership, look no further than Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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She did a podcast the other day with Hillary Clinton in which she, always claiming herself
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to be a faithful Catholic, of course, was upset that pro-lifers voted for President Trump.
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She said, it's a great grief for me as a Catholic.
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Pelosi said she believed Trump was elected for his stance against abortion.
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And she lamented pro-life Catholics, and I quote, were willing to sell the whole democracy
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Anyway, Catholics have always believed that abortion is the preeminent issue, as Archbishop
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Well, there is one bishop who deserves special mention on our tier list, and that is Pelosi's
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He actually responded to Pelosi's little rant about being a Catholic and upset.
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Go check out the full story at LifeSiteNews.com.
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But he said, and I quote, to begin with, the obvious, Nancy Pelosi does not speak for the
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He continued, and I quote, Christians have always understood that the commandment thou shalt
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not kill applies to all life, including life in the womb.
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He added, one thing is clear, no Catholic in good conscience can favor abortion.
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Right to choose is a smokescreen for perpetuating an entire industry that profits from one of
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He continued, our land is soaked with the blood of the innocent, and it must stop.
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That is why, as Catholics, he said, we will continue to speak out on behalf of those who
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have no voice to speak for themselves and reach out to comfort and support those who are suffering
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We will do so until our land is finally rid of this despicable evil, end quote.
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Amazing words from Archbishop Corleone, and an amazing thing that this scuffle between the
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bishops have finally shown us that there are indeed a good dozen or so and more, a baker's
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dozen at least, of bishops in America who have some spine and are willing to stand up for
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