The ‘Communion debate’
Many thanks to Greg Erlandson [in the June 3 issue of the Catholic Herald] for taking on a tough topic. And while he is correct to say that “some quarters of the Church hailed his (Biden’s) openness to Church positions on a host of issues such as immigration, racism, and the death penalty . . . ”, nonetheless I find this to be divisive and misleading, not to mention ineffective.
It plays into the popular, but false notion, that Biden, being a democrat, is better on the social issues. Hogwash.
Hispanics and Blacks and the working poor and the middle class all saw tremendous gains because of Republican policies.
The environment is cleaner, and peace was breaking out in the Middle East.
I clearly see the lip service paid to issues versus real results. The answer is not either/or, but both/and.
A fundamental failure to deeply appreciate the gift of every human life leads to treating all human life as some sort of commodity, reducing it to an economic equation.
Failure to vigorously defend the most vulnerable among us by every means possible would be a monumental failure of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in America, and in the world.
Trying to excuse this abhorrent evil because of some naively hoped for good sends the wrong message, and not just to Catholics.
Ronald Faust
Cross Plains