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Joe Biden is not a practicing Catholic
Most Catholics don’t care. Many agree with him. Did these Catholics feel troubled at Trump’s rush to complete as many executions as possible?
Catholic here. 🙋🏻♂️ Pro choice. Like most Catholics.
Is it troubling for them because they have to acknowledge that individual Catholics are not monolithic, and in fact the abortion-criminalization ones are in the minority?
Not this one. I'm a pro-choice, pro-contraception Catholic. I love Pope Francis and my POTUS.
NPR resorting to “some people say” stories
I think it’s women’s rights. Abortion has no rights.
His faith is personal to him - not policy. He is, however, anti death penalty in contrast to the anti-abortionists who are happy to see others put to death.
There's a difference between being pro-life and being anti-choice, in fact the way I see it, those that identify as pro-choice are actually more pro-life than anti-choicers could ever be
I'm going to go out on a limb and ask how they felt about 500K preventable deaths.
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As a Catholic and a pro choice one at that. There are more of us than thought. Shameful how a Catholic priest was at the January 6th riot. The Catholic Church has a reckoning coming, between old and new. That’s why it is bleeding followers.
How many is “some?”
He is a President who supports human rights - The issue is whether women are to be the LifeBearers without bodily integrity & personal autonomy or they are the LifeGivers and society 'Asks Women to be Generous' ForcedChildBearing is inherently violent VAW Catholic
Doesn’t the Pope support abortion?
please do your 'both sides' reporting here and hear from Catholic4Choice and the other majority of Catholics who are pro choice.
I used to work in catholic nursing homes, and I have to say, a lot of those old ladies/men with 4/7/11 kids were loud and proud about voting democratic party when their absentee ballots would arrive. Even some of the younger nuns were surprisingly liberal Catholicsevangelicals
Born and raised Catholic. Pro-choice.
As a Catholic, almost every catholic I know is pro choice.
One might question them calling themselves activists.
Hint. It means he doesn’t impose his views on other people because- separation of church and state.
Those Catholics who are worried fear they'll lose their control over would be Pro-Choice Catholics. Once a Pro-Choice Catholic sees that there is nothing stopping their faith and support of abortion, the grip the church has goes away. This is what they fear most.
I have 'issues' w/hugely powerful Catholic Church turning blind eye to pedophiles forever but can't extend choice to women over their own bodies. Pro choice doesn't mean pro abortion any more than equal rights for all doesn't mean less rights for you.
I don't call it abortion rights. I call it personal freedom to make one's own decisions, and privacy. My neighbors health is their business and it's not 'our pregnancy'. Priests molesting boys is a bigger issue.
Our President takes a stand for AllLivesMatter, but sadly, he’s forgotten that unborn babies lives matter too. Having it one way and not the other is hypocritical, and Democrats can do better than that.
Hey NPR they just intro’d a bill in AZ to make abortion homicide so maybe Catholic activists being “troubled” isn’t the most pertinent thing here.
Man I can't believe that NPR was actually something I listened to back in the day. This assertion is just ridiculous, and dangerous.
Depending upon the circumstances, so does the Pope.
Catholics are taught early on that God gave us all free will. We should not blindly follow priests and bishops. We are to make our own moral choices.
The MAJORITY of Catholics support choice. We believe reproduction and sexuality are between a human and God.
For some Catholic activists, President Biden sets an encouraging example of a Catholic who opposes the death penalty.
As I've already said, he's a legend in his own mind, gone over ever more to the dark side. Claimed to be prolife when he 1st went into politics. Now he's a political commodity bought & paid for by the left who are using him to create their diabolical new world. BidenBurattino
I think it’s called separation of church and state.
For everyone else, it's fine.
Yeah, where were those Catholic activists when t**** was cutting benefits to children and family services, educational programs, and health care the last 4 years. They weren’t troubled then.
We’re not a theocracy, so… 🤷🏻♀️
The majority of Catholics super abortion rights. Your bias is showing.
And for some of us who were raised in the catholic church but left because of the stance on women's healthcare, POTUS is a refreshing change and may bring us back.
Oh look, NPR remains trash
Those same Catholics who had no problems with Trump's family separation and the unprecedented amount of Federal executions.
Yes, for some Catholic activists, I’m sure he does. For normal Catholics, it doesn’t really bother them. Statistically, it’s not as much an issue as the hard-core ones try to make it look like.
Hi, NPR! Most American Catholics are pro-choice. Please focus on the violent evangelicals who lead the anti-choice movement, thanks!
And for some of us reformed Catholics, it's refreshing to have a President who believes a decision concerning my body is MY decision and not his.
It could mean that churches should not be in charge of legislation. What is acceptable birth control varies a great deal amongst Christians. Catholics don't even condone condoms.
Just like JFK, PresidentBiden knows there is a First Amendment, and millions of Americans who do not wish to be Catholic or follow Catholic teaching. This is what we should expect from a real leader.
I don’t understand why any church would have a problem with this issue being between a woman and God.
do the homework before writing nonsense
The sooner people start getting over it, the sooner they’ll be over it.
Thank you NPR for being critical of President Biden. Take it a step further please. Biden supports whatever gets him the most votes. Period. He won’t be President for long - Harris will take over soon. Write an article about how Biden speaks as if he has dementia!
You misspelled Protestant
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
Separation of church and state.
it's because he actually respects women & THEIR RIGHT to decide what happens IN & TO THEIR BODIES.
joebiden is troubling for many reasons related to the fact that he stands for political ambition alone and always has. In 50 years, he’s never supported a measure favoring working Americans despite his ‘Scranton Joe’ act. He’s the antithesis of a moral compass. That’s the issue
It’s not about abortion rights. It is about the freedom of choice to support a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or to not have an abortion. It’s about a woman’s right to make a very personal decision.
If you’re catholic, then you’re not supposed to believe abortion is an acceptable option to pursue People who claim to be catholic but only follow the teachings that they want are not catholic. They may be Christian, but they’re not catholic. Talk to the Pope; he’ll tell you.
& no complaints from the trumpers n anti-abortionists who want 2 save fetuses but aren’t concerned about this fetuses once they are born-complaining abt “socialism” that feeds children n Medicaid that assists all ages n SS that assists ppl w/their own tax $$$ paid in.Hypocrites.
Common sense women’s rights.
there’s lots of us
Get used to it.
He's not the only one.....I am a Catholic who supports abortion rights
If they can't grasp that Roe was decided under our 14th Amendment Right to Privacy, they need to stay silent and feed the hungry with their tax free 501c3 $$$$.
Biden is not Catholic if he supports abortions.
Not a devout Christian/Catholic. Can't have it both ways.
Biden is a Luciferian
Hi NPR! Thanks for the great piece. You might want to mention that prochoice Catholics like me were also interviewed in this story and that 56% of US Catholics support abortion rights. We *welcome* prochoice Catholic President Biden. Visit us at Catholic4Choice
In a pluralistic society where diverse religious traditions have different conceptions of the good in regards to abortion rights and the definition of life, many Catholics respect freedom of conscience of others and understand the distinction between secular and religious law.
Well he’s not president of the Catholic Church now is he........ He has a different responsibility as president of the US.
I too am Catholic who supports a woman’s choice. It isn’t abortion itself, that’s between a woman and her God. While I hate that abortions happen, they are private, difficult decisions each woman deserves to make for her life and her body. mybodymychoice
And he is human & fearless..
A Catholic who supports abortion is an Episcopalian.
I thank God that i have never been in a situation where I have had to even consider an abortion. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to force it on others.
Governments have NO business in their citizens personal reproductive matters. It's a private health issue that needs to be removed from politics once and for all.
Thats a damn lie. Joe Biden supports women choice as it should be.
He supports pro choice because he’s a leader for all!
Get over it the nuns voted for Biden over Trump
Naah. I'm OK with it. MA, Theology.
No one likes abortion, these are women’s rights not abortion rights!
For the majority of Catholics, he represents us accurately. Why are headlines always so ridiculous
Good God.
It’s not abortion rights. It’s women’s rights. That’s what the Catholic Church and republicans are against. Women’s rights.
This is silly. First of the president biden belief are his. But this thing at odd as some might think is what America about. Separation of church and state. We elected president biden as president not the Catholic Church or any other religious order!!
I want to ask my fellow Catholics who have an issue with Biden how they would feel if a Mormon were president and they banned alcohol or a Muslim who said women had to be covered from head to toe ?
He has a death wish
Lol ya think? Who’d have thought that Christians would disagree with killing an unborn child. They have BALLS to claim that they’re Christians & promote abortions!? 400 THOUSAND black babies never took a breath last year & the left thinks they fight racism. 400 THOUSAND
I’m catholic and pro-choice. Education and access to birth control are key. Some young women are shitty mother’s and just perpetuate a circle of neglect, abuse and stay on welfare.
For a lot of other Catholics (and former Catholics), a president who actually believes in a) women’s rights & autonomy, b) supporting non-embryonic life & the lives of pregnant people, and c) the separation of church and state is the ideal.
SEPARATE OF CHURCH AND STATE!!! Why do you ppl have such a damn hard time with this!!! Not to mention Catholic’s are NOT the superior of all! When you start living all you preach we can talk. sundayonlycatholics
Then they don’t know their religion or have read but not understood GENESIS or JOB! God’s greatest gift to mankind is CHOICE! His test of our love for him is to MAKE the right choices not be TOLD what choices to make! Remember the tree is THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL
It may come as a surprise to many, but supporting a woman's right to choose does not make you as an individual pro-abortion. I'm Catholic too. Do I think abortion is bad? YES Do I support a woman's right to choose? YES Will I judge someone for having an abortion? NO
NPR busting on Biden...interesting swing
sarahmccammon I am catholic, involved in my church and volunteer at church as well, but I do believe in a woman's right to choose.
Come on, NPR. We don't need divisive stories. How about a headline about millions of Catholics who actually support a woman's right to choose. That is the news. Move us forward.
He is the president of everyone in the US and I have not heard him say the church shouldn't be against abortion. If you are against abortion - don't do it.
It isn’t “reproductive rights” if the reproducing part is long done
I’m Catholic and 100% pro-choice, social services care, & anti-death penalty. An FYI: For those of you, Catholic’s included because you know it happens, who have had abortions and find it weighing on your psyche, consider looking into Project Rachel’s Ministry. ♥️ WomensRights
Arg. The idiocy. It is not support of abortion. It is support of a woman's autonomy of body. Her choice. Do your job church, and prevent woman from choosing abortion, stop being lazy by trying to eliminate choice entirely.
I’m Catholic and I, too, support a woman’s choice.
No man, religion, government, or business should have any day over a woman’s body. I’ve the issue had anything to do with a mans body there would be zero conversation.
Look at them, bloody Catholics, filling the bloody world up with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed. Every sperm is sacred!
Catholics have double standards. Whatever floats their boat. Child molestation is a norm but abortion oh GOD no no. Please give me a break! First ask them to get their priorities straight.
If Biden supports abortion he is not catholic! He should not be going to mass nor receiving communion. Catholics are very strict when it comes to certain issues. I’ve been Catholic for 56 years. This is a travesty and shame on him.
Anyone who supports abortion is going to the deepest part of hell
Biden is for Choice...not your choice or my choice. A woman has the choice to do what she wants with HER body. If it was a male problem we would not even be having this conversation.
He isnt supporting abortion. Biden is supporting a woman’s right to choose. Huge difference!
For some Catholics, like my family (which includes my very devout 80-year old parents), we are Pro-Choice because we do not wish to impose our beliefs on anyone else. And believe religious liberty is the foundation of a democracy. Write about that view.
“A Catholic who supports abortion rights” We just call those heretics.
Abortion rates drop when you provide people with healthcare, and access to food, shelter and education. Oddly enough, those key things also sound like really Christian things to do. Simply banning abortions does not stop abortions.
Kinda like high Catholics who molested children.. let’s talk about those kids rights! 😡
President Biden understands the separation of church and state.
Almost like there are a billion catholics in the world and some of them might be women and/or had lived experience with giving birth, pregnancy, contraception, miscarriage, abortion etc that shaped their beliefs. People have more than one aspect of their identity
Women are demanding their rights and have no intention of stopping!! First on the list: complete control over rights concerning their own bodies, not political parties or the Catholic Church!! This is the 21 century!!
The rule is the government is founded on the division.of church and state. Way back in the 60s Republicans ran against JFK claiming he would be controlled by the Vatican. Now they're condemning Joe Biden for not being controlled by the Vatican.
A lot of people who are pro choice know that the best path to lowering abortion rates is through providing affordable healthcare/access to contraceptives, sex education, and closing the wealth gap.
Being pro-choice does not mean you are pro-abortion
That is how you lead. Sometimes you have to govern against your religious beliefs. The will of the people come first. It’s not a democracy for a woman’s right to choose.
You can have the religious belief that abortion is not the choice for you personally, but nowhere in the catholic teachings does it say you must legally impose your beliefs on others.
Really . Separation of state and religion
The point of democracy is that no one part of the group can force their religious views on the whole group. That's why it's called freedom of religion. If it's forced by law on everyone, then all our freedoms are in jeopardy.
This seems like a story for a slow news day/week. There’s so much going on already.
He supports pro choice. Doesn’t necessarily mean he’s for abortions.
Unless Jesus is hiring, neither of us have the authority to judge. Whatever a woman chooses to do with her body is between her and God. If he has a problem with those choices, he'll deal with on his own.
I'm a person of faith but I have real problems with the religious BS. In America, there is a separation of church & state. And this is a good reason why that is. We all know what the Catholic church did during the middle ages. And we all saw the hypocrisy of Christians for Trump.
As a Catholic, I don't see anything wrong with that view, actually, I embrace it.
Abortion means less baby's to abuse and many oppose it bc of that.
Abortion, homosexuality, contraception & ordainment of women. Catholic Church is 500 years behind Catholics because it seeks to impose authoritarian, patriarchy-based rules that have nothing to do w/ Jesus teachings. It should focus on faith instead of needs of its bureaucracy.
The Catholic Church is also against birth control of any kind except rhythym method. Let the Activists cherry pick their religious convictions and pick their bones. They all do it anyway. I don't care. A President doesn't rule according to a religion.
Maybe this is his business. If these people really believe in a malevolent God then they should be satisfied minding their own business
sarahmccammon Remind me again why NPR uses the term 'anti-abortion' for folks on one side. Shouldn't you then use 'anti-life' for the other. Or maybe 'anti-unwanted-fetus' if you want to be accurate.
Female decisions to abort or not is protected under 14th Amendment - Right to Privacy.
The Catholic Church clearly has never given a shit about the children, sooo they can just stfu?
Who cares.
sarahmccammon Please explain how the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can maintain its 501C3 when it continues full frontal lobbying efforts that try to codify religion and goes against separation of church and state!
Because he has common sense and respects women like ALL men should.
No church has a monopoly on ethics or morality, nor are their leaders ordained by a (non-existent) god. Time to rid ourselves of these useless anachronisms.
Shows you how much more liberal politician he is than practicing Catholic!
He supports a woman’s right to choose, poorly worded.
Not everyone in America is Christian or Catholic.... I don't get it. 🤔🤔🤔
Joe Biden is not a good person. We already know that. You don’t need to act like there is any nuance.
He’s also a catholic that promotes satan....lol
As a Catholic I say to them, keep it in your church and leave it out of my government
The Republican Party...IS NOT Pro-life they are anti-abortion...There is a STRONG difference
Nazi Public Radio at it again
Who cares? Where are they when their priests are molesting children?
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He supports the right to decide and has said many times he doesn’t support abortion. Get it right.
Finally a catholic with some sense
Just run the country. Leave religion at home.
Pro choice Catholic here. It’s called separation of church and state.
sarahmccammon For all those who came here to remind of the whole 'separation of church and state' thing, consider joining orgs like americansunited and FFRF who advocate politically for precisely that.
sarahmccammon sarahmccammon Maybe a story on how the Catholic members of SCOTUS just last month gave the stamp of approval for the first executions by the Federal government in decades? I have heard plenty about how some think Biden should be denied communion - how about Kavanaugh et al?
Isn't it women's rights?
The Catholic Church still protects child molesters so that doesn't sound too pro life to me. 🤷🏻♀️
The time is overdue for the Church to include the rights of all woman in their congregation. Until they do, my foot will never step back inside their doors.
Breath of damn fresh air is what it is.
No woman in her right mind WANTS an abortion. Shit happens, for many reasons, including rape, stupidity, and ignorance. The point is the medical world only NEEDS to keep the reality a safe option JUST IN CASE. So, everyone, everyone, just zip it already. Live your own life.
But molesting kids is no biggie! The Catholic Church is disgusting. The end.
Defund NPR tax payer funded propaganda
i am sick of this abortion argument. If you don’t agree with abortion don’t have one. I don’t agree with organized religion but don’t tell you not to worship.
Weird how not everyone thinks the exact same
'troubling' for one that doesn't support our human rights. Not really troubling for those of us, women, girls, and anybody else that can become pregnant and have religionists coming between us and our doctors.
Catholic smatholic religion is stupid.
All I read is Biden has the right amount of Jesus and the rest of them need way LESS Jesus
sarahmccammon What about being a Catholic AND respecting the rights of individuals is so hard to understand?
The Catholic church has always been flipfloppy on these types of issues for a long time. I recommend reading, at least, the Wikipedia articles for infanticide and abortion to have some basic historical context.
Why these pieces never target conservatives and religious right that, professing being pro-life, that life is a God-given gift, are so enthusiastic and support death penalty? I find terminating a life of an unconscious fetus is way less cruel and godless than one of a full adult.
I wish Christians would stop trying to temove freedoms of others.
merrill2n This pedophile protecting, woman subjugating cartel can keep its rosaries out of my ovaries. Thankyouverymuch.
Any1 can attend church. Serial killers, philanthropists, rapists, organ donors. Attendance doesn’t prove devotion 2 faith. It’s relationship w/ God & submission 2 Jesus as Lord of your life. Scriptural ADHERENCE, Church fellowship & service 2 others are products of faith.
sarahmccammon Biden is but one of a large number of Catholics who have logic and compassion, and hence apply them openly in their lives.
Finally...separation of church and state.👏👏👏
When throngs of Christians are using the 'Cafeteria Plan' from the Bible its hypocritical to say anything. Biden can govern for the greater good and still hold true to his personal beliefs.
Racism is also evil and a great sin against God because we're all made in the image and likeness of God. Life outside the womb is also important yet DT's supporters didn't care he was denying poor immigrants and refugees entrance into country.
This is the same Church that allowed & covered up decades of Priests abusing little boys, so the Church has no credibility on morality. Also, if they hold abortions to be wrong, what about vasectomies? Is this not birth control? Oh wait, Church can’t hold the men accountable.
Smart people know there is a big difference in Personal belief and our Secular Government. These Christians better start learning We are not a middle east theocracy. They are no better than the Taliban. It is Choice. Not forced abortions.
A Catholic that supports abortion rights is a Catholic in not good standings with the Church and is suppose to not take communion. Thus, not a practicing Catholic.
A lot of us Catholics believe in a woman's right to choose. Pro-choice doesn't mean pro-abortion. So please stop with these sensationalized headlines. Until we can fix our foster care system, and erase sexual crimes against women, that choice should not be taken away from us.
My hubs was a devout Catholic father of two loving daughters. He taught them the vital Godly necessity of Loving Thy Neighbor, telling the truth, a sharp connection to integrity, conscience, fairness. They taught him the height and depth of honoring his values to lives of women.
LOL.
More than a right to an abortion; it’s the right of women to be treated as adults, legally.
He doesn't have to agree but any decent person knows not to force their religious beliefs on others. I wish more followers of Jesus Christ understood that.
He supports individual's rights, not abortion rights. So should everyone. Show the woman that you have her back and that the baby will not be thrown to the wolves and then she doesn't need to go for abortion.
And the two accused of sexual misconduct!
Oh look a “Catholic” who believes in pro-choice lol. Kinda like Pelosi said...Biden’s willing to ship his whole religion down the river so innocent babies never get to experience the joys of life like we all do! Let’s all praise another hypocritical president!
Religion has no place in government. Point of fact: Evangelicals support a lying, thieving, philandering bigot who doesn't go to church & believe they possess the moral high ground. If you care about abortion help the PARENTS find a solution. Our bodies don't belong to the state!
Still dredging up the abortion issue feigning pro-life. While their religious extremism view rips children from parents and cages them while reinstating capital punishment. That's Christian? That's not pro-life.
Anyone who is still 'Roman Catholic' after decades of systemic patriarchal child abuse & associated obfuscation and denial to protect 'the institution' are complicit members of a cult, devoid of critical thinking skills. Or they simply love the constant psychological abuse.
That’s separation of church and state, the president is leading a country and his religion should not influence the law 🇺🇸
Damn straight Biden is at odds with Catholic church!! Abortion is murder!! Biden is ignorant!
Biden can claim to be a Catholic all day long. But if you don't follow the teachings of the church, then you aren't really who you claim to be, are you?
Separation of religion and state.
Biden understands the difference between Democracy and Theocracy!
Joe Biden for Pope! After he’s done saving a country he can save a dying religion.
I’m also a Catholic and believes in women right .
I am catholic and do not agree with abortion but I also believe that every woman has the right to choose - I believe that her choice will be something she lives with forever and she alone will have to answer to God.
Imagine that a religious person that doesn't feel the need to impose THEIR religious beliefs on OTHERS!!!! So happy to have rational people in power again!
Why are you an activist of a religion. Keep in your lane. This is about women’s control over their reproduction.
Hey, digital headline writer at , the article reflects the broad perspectives in the Catholic denomination, but one has to get 3 paras in to get that. We know many folks only read headlines. Catholic faith is a large, diverse community, but is often stereotyped in the press.
I would call it 'troubling' that he supports something in opposition to the Catholic Church while still a Catholic. It's healthy to question faith and authority. Just because a church tells us something does not make it true.
Why aren't the deeply religious anti-choice people demanding the Fetus be recognized as an income tax deduction, childcare tax creditworthy, and subject to free health care, including the mother, to ensure viability?
If the catholic church wanted to take it's pro-life position seriously, they would excommunicate Joe Biden for his pivotal role in launching the Iraq war.
If a pregnant woman is shot and she and the unborn dies it is a double murder. So how do you explain abortion as anything other than murder?
It means he can have a great amount of faith and serve God, but also trust women to make their own decisions about their health care. This isn't hard. You can be personally against abortion and still respect a woman's right to decide that for herself.
This is the reason we’re not supposed to mix church and state. But always do.
Doesn’t the Catholic Church have something important to do? Like cover up pedophilia or hoard more opulent wealth in the Vatican.
excommunion ?
My god. People will knit pick at anything! Biden sets a troubling high profile example? Smh. Bedside he supports a woman’s right to choose. Ridiculous.
The church can have their opinion. Just like Biden. The church doesn't rule the world!! Nor does the evangelical American Taliban. Cults are ridiculous!
Is he supporting Abortion Rights, or is he supporting Women’s Rights?
Too bad. Americans don't want our laws written by people using their religious tomes as guides.
Catholics...you can't support war and not support abortion and call yourselves non-hypocrites. You let people die....you aren't pro-life!
I agree there should be limits, but people will never agree on where that limit should be set. For me, it’s 12 weeks. And after that, only if it is medically necessary to save the Mother’s life.
Yeah, he's in need of repentance. For now though, excommunication.
It is not troubling at all. That’s the popes direction - stop being obsessed with sex and focus on the primary message - find what Pope Francis says.
One issue voters have done so much harm to this country as they turn a blind eye. There are larger humanitarian issues at stake here. I am Catholic and Pro-Choice.
Besides his views on abortion, Biden most likely doesn't support pedophile priests either, which would challenge the Catholic hierarchy.
He’s a CINO, you can’t be both
Those same Catholics had no problem supporting someone divorced three times who openly committed adultery, had contempt for the poor and immigrants, exhibited greed, and was utterly profane in every way. Am I right?
This is a little misleading. Catholics are Christian and the largest of denomination of Christianity. Not all Christians are Catholic. Let's not set up a Catholic versus 'other Christian' debate/conflict. This is, and should always be, a personal matter.
These catholic antiabortion activists are delusional because as a catholic I feel its a woman’s right to choose. I don’t feel that like Anti abortionists that we should make a law against a woman’s right to choose. Choice is a woman’s right.
I think the problem in this statement is that there are Catholic activist. It wasn’t like this in the past. Politics wasn’t a defined part of the religion.
There are Catholics that set a troubling, high-profile example of turning their heads while children are molested.
- Pro choice catholic
that's because abortion is condemned in the Church and anyone who supports it is excommunicated & no longer Catholic
I'm with the President on this. This is a personal and health issue, not a government or religious issue. Any religion.
Let’s get him settled in b4 those send him their wish lists!!!👎👎👎
It was better when this was about divorce and gay marriage.
Shouldn't. Remember one is religious and the other is political. One shouldn't influence the other. That's why there is the separation of church and state. I'm not pro abortion but I'm pro choice.
Good thing we have freedom of and freedom from religion and a belief in the separation of church and state. Biden's Catholicism should never be a factor in medical decisions of women. So tired of this being a fucking issue.
I am a Christian who is pro choice not because I believe abortion is ok, but because I feel it is not right to dictate morality. God gave us free will to choose, and gave us the understanding that we live with the choices we make. You can believe in God and still be pro choice.
For some Catholic activists, President Biden leads by example on the separation of church and state codified by the Constitution...fixed it for you
Destructive protests by anarchists and extremists signal divided left as Biden administration begins - WaPo reports.
Boo hoo, abortion isn’t an everybody’s business issue. It’s a personal one. Religion should have nothing to do with it. We all meet our maker on our own terms; everyone else should be worrying about themselves.
Welcome to separation of church and state.
He should be excommunicated
correction, he supports a woman's right on her body.... even that meant abortion..people who refuse to wear a mask as per health directive claiming freedom, have no problem imposing hurdles on women's rights.
He doesn’t personally support abortion, he supports the right to choose.
I’m Catholic & I support abortion rights also.
Nobody cares about abortion or Biden's faith. This is a non story and needs to be taken down.
Some unconditional sanctity of life proponents hold a contradictory belief: death penalty. Consider a fictitious story: a right to life man has a wife who gets violently raped & she becomes pregnant. They want to keep the baby, & ask the rapist be killed. All lives matter? Think.
Focus on the big picture and get over single-issue voting. He’s the most decent man in office in memory.
He is entitled to his beliefs but the law is the law is the law!
A Catholic who respects women...gee, I can see why they'd find that threatening. It undermines the foundation of their misogynist 'faith.'
Operative word- rights
Duh. “some Catholic activists” = practicing and faithful Catholics as opposed to cultural C & E Catholics
As I understand it, he is *personally* against abortion, but in favor of *abortion rights.* It’s a fine distinction but an important one, and one shared by many, Catholic or not.
Plenty of Catholics out there like this. My whole step mom’s side of the family. The govt forcing a woman who has been raped to risk her own life to carry a baby to term is just not where we wanna be as a society.
He also supports killing innocent people in foreign countries.
President Biden is male, also, PRACTICAL! (He desires reelection) Logical!😏
A woman’s right to her body including her fetus vs. a fetus’ right inside a woman are faux foes. Majority of pregnancies result in the greatest gift in life: new life. 1:4 spontaneously abort. Rape/incest/war/violence pregnancies: women can choose. Sin? (God) & woman to decide.
A modern man who knows his fellow men come with faults and should never touch matters concerning women rights. Men throughout history have tried to control women bodies without ever controlling their own. Once men take control of their own sperm women wouldn't need abortions.
Who cares
The activists need to worry about their own souls. I don't believe God will judge them based on the actions of other people.
And this issue of reproductive rights should be taken out of politics. It is a private choice, period.
It’s a charged statement to say he supports “abortion rights”. He supports body autonomy for women and that includes the right to get an abortion. HIPAA doesn’t protect vasectomy rights.
Btw, did Trump ever overturn Roe vs Wade? No.
Actually.. statistics prove that a lot of the Catholic base are the most hypocritical and support abortion behind closed doors. So there's that.
Too bad it’s an issue which directly and specifically concerns the female species. Man have no opinion worth mentioning regarding a woman’s body.
People don't understand the difference between pro choice and pro abortion. But we've seen the difference between pro life and pro death. Dems, incl Biden are truly pro life. Trump and MAGA have shown us they don't care about life. They have no respect for the life.
Those Catholic activists who have a problem with President Biden's approach to the abortion issue also seem to have a problem with the division of church and state. President Biden has it absolutely correct.
Catholic activists speak with forked tongue.
another slow news day.
Why is it so difficult to understand that being President doesn’t stop you from practicing your faith, just from imposing it on the entire country.
Yet those Catholics supported kids in cages.
He supports women's rights. The day women tell men what to do with their balls. We will have equality.
The Democrats want the destruction of the Catholic Church. That is why they changed the laws so their lawyer buddies could work overtime suing the Church into the ground. Lawyers have an assured resting place when they pass and it's hot as hell. Same for their Liberal buddies.
He can call himself a Catholic but he isn't. He's just another baby killing supporter . Good luck when you meet Jesus.
Separation of church and state. Imagine that.
What? Every catholic I know supports abortion rights when they need one.
Millions of Catholics have had abortions
He wasn’t elected to impose specific religious beliefs into policy
Do those activists support a president who: illegally separates children from parents and keeps them in cages, supports child sex trade and labor, supports further enriching the rich, lies constantly, evades taxes, bullies everyone, threatens his opponents, takes taxpayers' $,
Perfect
Expand the Court Mr. President.
Its also evil to sexually abuse children & yet that didn't stop the church from covering it up for decades so let's just leave MEDICAL issues up to women and their doctors and the church can kindly stay out it. They got lucky this go around with someone who is an actual catholic
I am with Biden. Catholic and support abortion rights!!!!!
Define a life, set the law. Plenty of us Catholics are fine with abortion dictated by certain circumstances, but funding programs and clinics with public money to perform abortions fosters irresponsibility. The gov’t has no problem giving out school loans, give out abortion loans
I’m fixing your caption typos (using the term “abortion rights”) by neither reading the article nor liking your post. Do better. Was it clickbait, or ignorance?
Why is using the phrase “abortion rights Catholic”? This is low brow writing & movement towards the standards of Fox News, something I’ve noticed over the last decade. Also why I’ve ceased donating. You could have said “a woman’s right to chose.” From an exlistener.
More than half of Catholics do believe on the right to choose. But those pro life Catholics support the death penalty, assault weapons for all and separation of families. Media narrative matters, call it Choice not abortion rights!
jmeandthemore Because religion doesn’t belong in policy. Only a tiny minority of religions oppose all abortion, while supporting IVF’s destruction of 1000s of embryos every year. We have the freedom, in the US, to decide. It must remain so.
One can be pro-choice, but not pro-abortion..
Good
2clarify that's what young guys like 2tell virgins. When a Woman gets 2 decide men healthcare then I'll be against it. U know how many less crimes against women there would b if teenage boys got reversible vasectomies until marriage 10s of thousands. Why R women less valuable?
Omg seriously? Abortion is not just lazy drunk sex regrets. Its RAPE, INCEST, MEDICAL. Its ppl taking on a responsibility they can't handle & doing it poorly causing harm 2 defenseless kids. Let's start w/free Birth Control, Proactive, Educate. *Guys aren't allergic or sterile.
Uh-oh!! Ring the Pope...
My thought process is from what I understand the Bible teaches you not to judge others. It seems that God will be the ultimate judge. So why do humans deal will it if God will deal will after your life..
That he’s a hypocrite..
He supports the 'rights' but not necessarily abortion. History shows abortions go down significantly during democratic administrations. When women feel safe & supported, they are less likely to feel forced to make such a devastating choice. But the choice should be theirs.
We’re those Catholic activists troubled by Trump & Barr executing 13 prisoners in 6 months? The Pope expressly stated executions are antithetical to the pro-life position. Barr was given an award by US Catholics while he helped fast track executions. 🙄
It’s called separation of church and state.
NPR only negative news
At least he's not a priest sexually abusing boys and still in the flock.
Ons belief & the other biology - fantasy vs reality
for some Catholics, President Biden sets a comforting high-profile example of a Catholic.
Carholic in name only. You just can’t be Catholic and be pro abortion. That’s like being Catholic and supporting polygamy.
Nonsense! Biden supports a woman’s right to choose. He’s saying, it’s none of his freakin’ business. That doesn’t mean Biden supports abortions.
Biden’s policy is more effective against abortion than laws because the male doesn’t create an unwanted person (1/3 of males admitted to compromising their condom) “I can’t afford a child” was the number one reason given for abortion by women.
Meanwhile, Priests who diddle little boys are moved elsewhere instead of facing the law. Yeah, their high horse galloped off long ago.
You cannot have a functioning society without abortion.
The Catholics should worry about their priests and the people starving in Vatican City. They should also worry about the fact that so many of them supported a man who has shatter nearly every commandment and raped. It’s ok that Joe stands up for women’s rights.
Meanwhile 'pro-life Catholic' Bill Barr went on a killing spree with his pal Trump and had 13 death row inmates executed in the months leading up to the election & after. And as if that's not horrid enough, in between the executions Barr received the Christifideles Laici Award,..
And he should, the church are no right in any woman’s pants. Like they have no right raping young boys....
The Pope said don't be a one-issue voter.
If God gave us free will, wouldn't that make God pro choice?
It’s called separation of Church & State
Maybe the Catholic Church should stop trying to control women.
I’m catholic. I’m not troubled.
I'm a Roman Catholic and I'm Pro Choice. There are MANY Like us. We don't lose sleep over it
Because he has common sense
Against abortion? Don’t get one. RoevWade reproductiverights WomensRights
Nothing wrong with that, everyone made their own decisions and don't need permission from people that want to impose their view in somebody else life live and let live nobody has authority to manage people lives
Too bad. Each person should follow his or her conscience.
Stop erasing Christians that don’t want to impose their religion on others. That’s actually how America should work
Fuck them catholics who want people to breed like animals
He’s a Catholic who understands he has no right to impose his religious beliefs on the whole of society. In other words he actually understands the Constitution.
But evangelicals were fine with Trump claiming to be Pro-Life while reinstating the death penalty killing 13 people? I guess the right to life is dependent on who you are in thisGOP
the majority of Catholic's support a women's right to choose. Maybe lead with that.
Too bad. People have no business making medical and life choices for women!
GoodTrouble?
Eff them.
Viagra was paid for by insurance and I had to buy my daughters birth control and her obgyn appointments. Men don't have babies but they want to force women to. Joe is right tough shit pope.
'Who am I to decide ?' The Pope
Abortion is Healthcare! Mind your own business!
The Catholic Church is losing members at a rapid pace. Maybe they should become more tolerant, like President Biden, and accept that others might not share all your ideas...
I think it’s understanding that our Constitution wants the two separate that makes it possible. He and I and keep our faith intact by what we do and don’t do while accepting that you have the same rights as we do even though we may disagree with you. Democracy? 🤔🤨😷🇺🇸
One can be a catholic and still be pro choice. Stop creating these stupid headlines where there wasn’t any news a minute ago. You are turning just into the other mainstream media. Sad!
Church over here. State over here. Church over here. State over here. That's it. That's why he acts the way he does as Head of State. That is how it should be, according to the Constitution. Who told you to write a piece about this? Stop it.
You can be catholic and respectful of women's rights. It's all in your upbringing.
Esmeralda_Soria It’s not troubling.
Did you do a report on the so0called Christian Trump and his support for passive murder (COVID inaction) and capital punishment? Or the Jewish Stephen Miller who espouses Nazism?
Well I sure hope all those people complaining about him being pro choice sure better be wearing a mask cause you know I don’t wanna hear about their rights being infringed upon while telling me what to do with my own uterus and reproductive rights
I would love to see a Catholic church stand up for the poor and demand Economic Justice: higher taxes for Corporations, free tuition for under resourced families, raising minimum pay, affordable organic and fresh groceries, resolve housing crisis and fight unreasonable evictions.
NPR should stay out of this.
Wouldn’t be more accurate to say: President Biden support “women rights “. After all is their own personal decision what to do with their own body!
As opposed to Catholics who are OK with neglecting children after they are born.
Melinda Gates is a devout Catholic and speaks about her support of choice. I highly recommend people read her thought process on this! It's very enlightening and I respect her immensely
Oh well, so do I and all my friends and family. Women can make their own decisions
The Emperor shows no mercy, even to the unborn.
Abortions for the rich will always exist. We need to make it safer for all women to choose what they do with their bodies. We must protect women’s life and rights.
It’s not troubling...no one wants an abortion but because our culture can give way to violence against women on top of sending messages of being more of a thing versus a person-abortion is an option seldom looked at as desirable but sometimes as necessary.
I don't agree with abortion, but I support a woman's right to choose. -cradle Catholic
Those same 'Catholic activists' have no problem with 'high-profile' Catholics who support the death penalty, wars and ignore the poor. Christ would have a much bigger problem with those 'activists' than with Biden.
Leave our ovaries alone!
Most Catholics do.
Cool, now interview all the women who've been forced to have abortions because Catholic employers and health systems deny access to birth control.
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If 'Catholic activists' imagine that a woman's control over her own uterus is some kind of a sin, then it behooves them to practice the teachings of Jesus & get on with forgiving the sinner, & refrain from condemning them so that they can better focus on their own sins instead.
Well, until the church starts supporting all unwanted children they can shut their damn mouths. And why doesn't the church get involved in men's medical care?
GoJoe! ✊. Women’s rights.
Yet, these same Catholics had no problem hiding Pedophilia Priests. Many were simply transferred to other churches to abuse kids! save it!
Here we go. Abortion is a personal subject between a woman and a Dr. Abortion is not a legal matter so why bring it up?
The same catholic church that aided priests in sexual assault? How about focusing on the fact that church and state are separate. Instead of giving a voice to religious extremism.
Why assume the Biden's aren't personally pro life? Why does the church assume one has to apply their personal values to society as a whole? America's founding was shunning theocracy, yet this is coercing religion into legislation.
Catholics
It’s a WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE...
Perhaps our president also understands that there can and often should be differences between federal law and religious beliefs.
It’s a choice. Americans have freedom of religion,so a religion should not dictate personal freedoms. If you don’t want an abortion, don’t have one. Do they support capital punishment?
Where were the Catholic bishops when 7 humans were put to death in a mere few months under the Trump WH . Not a peep from any Catholic clergy . Life is so sacred except for the life taken by lethal injection
Yeah well if he does this right he will separate his faith and heritage with what is better for the mental alth ohef young women who are already plagued with having to go through with this. He's making the right call for young women who deserve to have a choice.
Abortion is horrible. Vote for real ways to reduce abortion like making contraception easier to get and providing better educational opportunities for pregnant mothers so they dont have to choose. Vote Democrat!!!
For many ppl pro-choice doesn't mean pro-abortion which is an important distinction many of the 'true Christian' crowd seem to not get.
There are many, many Catholics and other religions that support a woman’s right to choose.
Oh, you mean like most Catholics, right?
Lots of Catholics support choice. Parishes too poor to kick us over it.
He's supporting a woman's right to choose what she can do with HER body - and deal with her own individual conscience after her decision.
I think the church put peoples lives in danger during covid so they could collect money. They are no moral authority.
“Catholic activists” Try “average Catholic practitioners”.
he was elected president, not pope.
Presidents Support Policies But Is up to each person To Behave , no one Needs the Government to tell them what to do , Shame of you Women Who get pregnant and have an abortion you should think about before you have Sex
'Biden is a Catholic' That says more about Catholicism than it says about Biden.
Biden needs to go on the record and reaffirm the separation of Chruch and State as demanded by the constitution he swore to defend. He needs to make it clear that personal religious beliefs is not more important than human rights
Welcome to the real world. People have to come to terms that their religion does not supersede reality.
Denying health care to one gender is unconstitutional. As to the Catholic Church against abortion, there are some women in Ireland who might have something to say about the Church & if they are truly pro-life. Philomena is an enlightening book & movie.
More un-Christ-like behavior has been witnessed in name of 'unborn rights'. I'll never wrap my head around the 'Christians' supporting 45 for this one issue. Mind blowing.
Biden is very anti-abortion for HIMSELF. He is also very Catholic for HIMSELF. He just doesn't think he should enforce his religious beliefs on others. He believes in the wall between Church and State.
I support the right of families to limit there family size, hence the abortion option. I have seen others harm families that want this type of right. No one has the right to harm another family.
Do you REALLY think an abortion law would stop Melania trump getting an abortion is wanted one? Laws never stopped the wealthy and well connected from abortions. Stop trying to make women into incubators.
Catholics are still stuck in the 9th century. They should support birth control.
Thoughts and prayers. Oh, and science.
Perhaps Catholic activists might be able to bend to leftist 'pretzel logic' by accepting 1st-trimester pregnancies as tolerable because undifferentiated cell masses aren't babies, but later than that, it's probably just the Devil's work.
It’s pretty simple. Of you are opposed to abortion, don’t have one. It’s that easy. Leave everyone else alone.
Aka an adult
Keep👏🏻Your👏🏻Religion👏🏻Off👏🏻My👏🏻Body👏🏻
We don't live in a theocracy, religious ruling should NOT be considered when establishing laws.
Saintsfan5348 I love it. Fuck anti-choicers. Not your body NOT your business.
Who. Fucking. Cares.
I'm Lutheran. I'm pro-choice because I'm pro-life and I know prohibition doesn't work. Women must be able to choose. The way to decrease abortion is education, access to birth control and economic justice.
I am Catholic and I am pro choice. Millions of us are. You can be pro choice and anti abortion at the same time. Many of us think pro life means more than inflicting a ban. We trust and support woman.
Catholics who ignore the Pope and were OK with Trump executing people like crazy.
So? lol
We live in a secular country. Catholics need to understand this reality.
needs to give Biden a break. Let's keep focused on the enormous job he inherited. Ignore the anti-abortion rights issues until he's had the first 100 Days; even better, maybe never. Why ignite a trash fire while the nation is burning?
The key here is activists, who largely side for the more traditional/older version of Catholocism, while the majority of lay Catholics don't. Frankly it's nice to see a person IN politics NOT legislating everyone else's life under their personal faith. More of that please.
Good!
Wow. A politician who doesn’t feel the need to shove his religion onto other people through policy. Imagine! Tolerance and Respect for each other is imperative for Unity.
Well the priests and the nuns would make babies and then bury them alive. So what do you expect from these clowns?
January 22, 1973 disastrous Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade. It has led to the brutal abortion license here in the country we love.
I am Catholic and I am Pro-Choice. As a Catholic I feel this is a more humanitarian stance than just being pro-birth which is what most “evangelical/religious” people are. They are not pro-life by a long shot.
Stop yourself from sensational headlines - honestly, what do you think perpetuates divisiveness in this hyper connected world?
Biden is not pro-abortion, he is against cruelty upon pregnant women and respects their rights to make their own choice and to their body. He discourages abortion but will not chain a woman to a gurney to force her to have a child. This is the true Catholic faith.
Start a Church Of Biden, then. You already worship him, why not sacrifice your young?
Catholics that use abortion as a single issue voting tool in 2021 are disguising their true “hearts”. Using that as an excuse above all other significant issues that most Catholics care about now- social and racial injustices, inequality- income, gender , socio-economic- cover up
That’s nothing compared to how sane Protestants have felt the last four years
Joe Biden goes to Church regularly. Joe Biden will confess his sins and will do penance. Do you? Jesus once said, those of you without sin, be the first to cast the first stone. Jesus is sinless, & He didn’t cast the first stone.
Being a catholic encompasses so much more than the single issue of abortion
Tough shit Catholics.
A lot of us catholics believe it’s the right for a woman to choose, it doesn’t necessarily mean we are pro abortion, we are pro choice, big difference plus it is the law.
Abortions don’t have rights. Women have rights. That’s what Biden supports. A woman’s right to make choices for herself. Got it
so they're 'nay' to the abortions, but 'yay' to child molestation. Got it
Catholics get to choose to be catholic, maybe they shouldn't.
Let’s be honest. Any Democrat claiming to be Christian only does so for the votes. Nobody really believes Obama or Biden are actually Christian (not a knock against them just stating the obvious).
I left the church over this.
Wait a minute
The Pontifical Commission on Birth Control found chemical birth control was unobjectionable, however the liberal pope who started this commission died, & the ultra-conservative wing of the Church & Pope Paul VI squashed it. Conservatives are still at it.
Troubling lol
You know what , bite it !
Everything in this tweet is wrong
1 out of 13 abortions is a married catholic woman
Catholics on the whole are more progressive than the church. I think we're a big wild card in that sense, I'm reminded of the 'cafeteria Catholic' term.
Most all of the women I know who had abortions are Catholic.
His faith cannot/will not impair his judgment as the leader of a democratic country. People should start separating government and religion. Reps have used religion as a political tool, and people of faith fall for it.
Until the churches which the Catholic activists attend start paying taxes, I don't give a shit.
Biden supports humanity and forgiveness, both are the signs of a true believer!
What some ppl don't understand is that the majority of Catholics do indeed support women's rights.
I think it’s high time you start saying that Biden supports choice rather than abortion rights. He is nuanced on this subject, with which I whole heartedly agree. Access to abortion is not something government should be involved with. Separate church and state.
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