It only took one line to reveal the reporter’s ignorance and bias

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We noted yesterday the hypocrisy of the oh so #woke New York Times. And now we can see how one almost throwaway line exposes the bias and ignorance of Times reporter Jason Horowitz:

Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops: Don’t Deny Biden Communion Over Abortion

Conservative American Catholic bishops are pressing for a debate over whether Catholics who support the right to an abortion should be allowed to take Communion.

by Jason Horowitz | June 14, 2021 | 5:41 PM EDT

ROME — The Vatican has warned conservative American bishops to hit the brakes on their push to deny communion to politicians supportive of abortion rights — including President Biden, a faithful churchgoer and the first Roman Catholic to occupy the Oval Office in 60 years.

But despite the remarkably public stop sign from Rome, the American bishops are pressing ahead anyway and are expected to force a debate on the communion issue at a remote meeting that starts on Wednesday.

But the money line is in the next paragraph:

Some leading bishops, whose priorities clearly aligned with former President Donald J. Trump, now want to reassert the centrality of opposition to abortion in the Catholic faith and lay down a hard line — especially with a liberal Catholic in the Oval Office.

What kind of ignorance is this? The Catholic Church was a vocal opponent of abortion and euthanasia long before Donald Trump burst onto the political scene. The Church has been opposed to same-sex ‘marriage’ and ‘transgenderism’ long before the 2016 election.

But it is also true that the Church has been primarily on the political left on other issues. The Church is very much in favor of greatly eased immigration restrictions, the Church would like to see greatly increased social welfare programs, the Church favors economic changes far more in line with European ‘democratic socialism,’ and the Church is very concerned with environmental issues, especially global warming climate change. None of those policies are exactly Trumpian.

Did Mr Horowitz not know these things, or was he trying to use propaganda to undermine the more conservative bishops?

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3 thoughts on “It only took one line to reveal the reporter’s ignorance and bias”

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  2. “Did Mr Horowitz not know these things, or was he trying to use propaganda to undermine the more conservative bishops?”

    I choose B

    I’m not Catholic but I’ve never understood why any Christian denomination would be all in for “social welfare programs”. I may be a little rusty on my theology but I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t entreat us to enlist the government to take other people’s wealth to support the poor. He told us to do it ourselves.

  3. Sailor Curt wrote:

    I’m not Catholic but I’ve never understood why any Christian denomination would be all in for “social welfare programs”. I may be a little rusty on my theology but I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t entreat us to enlist the government to take other people’s wealth to support the poor. He told us to do it ourselves.

    Catholic priests are sympathetic to the plight of the poor. Psalm 34:6, “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.”

    I agree: social welfare programs are more of a trap to the poor, but a lot of people see that differently.

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