Vatican-affiliated scholar sees Biden withdrawal as end of ‘conciliar Catholicism’
July 22, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: An Italian theologian, Marcello Neri, argues that the withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential marks the demise of “conciliar Catholicism” in the US.
Complaining that the US bishops never fully backed Biden, Neri says that his brand of Catholicism will be replaced by a “populist and substantially racist” version. In an astonishingly partisan screed he writes:
This non-conciliar Catholicism is intimately imperialist, supporting pockets of resistance to Francis’ pontificate with millions of dollars, to make the vassals in a project that transforms the Catholic universalism of the Church into a global mega sect (whose headquarters is found in the United States).
Neri’s ignorant views could safely be ignored except that this scholar, who so enthusiastically backs the Biden program, is affiliated with the reconstituted John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jul. 23, 2024 1:24 AM ET USA
To the extent that the U.S. bishops "never fully backed Biden" and "his brand of Catholicism", they were doing the work of God. Every Catholic should oppose Biden's "brand of Catholicism", a brand which elevates abortion to the status of a sacrament, enables the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in the anti-Catholic imperialism of his former boss, fuels the fanatical genocide in Palestine, ignors the genocide of Christians in nations across Africa, facilitates human trafficking...
