.@ConorLambPA tells how when @JoeBiden was at a Labor Day Mass, he kneeled during the Mass even though he was in the front pew without a kneeler. Shows the strength of his faith. #CatholicsforBiden
.@SamanthaJPower saying how @JoeBiden would occasionally delay meetings with Secretaries because someone suffering from a tragedy would call him because they felt alone. #CatholicsforBiden
"I believe he [@JoeBiden] can bear the sorrows of this nation" and help heal it, says @AntheaButler. She says that she believes Biden would reach out his hand to her at Mass. #CatholicsforBiden
.@AntheaButler asks people to search their conscience when it comes to their vote. She say @JoeBiden has a "moral core... he knows what it means to bear grief." #CatholicsforBiden
.@AntheaButler asks people to ask what their history will be if they don't vote for Biden/Harris. "It's time for compassion, it's time for resilience and hope. It's not time for fear." #CatholicsforBiden@JoeBiden
.@marasmith214 is moderating the roundtable on this #CatholicsforBiden call-to-action call. Says some of her best memories of college was going to Mass on Sunday nights. @JoeBiden
Old friend and Catholic Democrats supporter (and member) Kevin Hayes highlighting the work he's doing in the greater Pittsburgh area as part of #CatholicsforBiden efforts. @JoeBiden
"You can make a difference by just talking to the other Catholics you know about why you're supporting @JoeBiden," says #CatholicsforBiden Pittsburgh Kevin Hayes.
Thanks for the shout out, Kevin Hayes! Love the work that you are doing as part of #CatholicsforBiden. @JoeBiden
Vicky Kovari says that her group is sending a letter to each of the 7 Bishops in Michigan asking for them to commit to keep parishes safe from politicking. @JoeBiden#CatholicsforBiden
.@Mark_Shriver also mentions @JoeBiden's close relationship with his mom Eunice Shriver and his uncle Senator Ted Kennedy. Legitimately close relationship between Senator Kennedy and VP Biden. #CatholicsforBiden
@Mark_Shriver invites us to imagine the coward in the White House talking about the preferential option for the poor. Which is, indeed, difficult to fathom. @JoeBiden#CatholicsforBiden
In drawing upon the memory of St. Brigid, a great Irish saint, Tom Groome talks about her focus on mercy and compassion. #CatholicsforBiden@JoeBiden
Tom Groome says that St. Brigid would want us to recognize the pandemic, the disease of racism, and the ecological crisis. #CatholicsforBiden@JoeBiden
"Calm us into quietness that heals and listens," Tom Groome drawing upon the prayer of St. Brigid. He asks us all to say the Hail Mary. @JoeBiden#CatholicsforBiden
"The organization of societies worldwide is still far from reflecting clearly that women possess same dignity & identical rights as men. We say one thing with words, but our decisions & reality tell another story."
Glad to see but this is true of the Church, too. #FratelliTutti
These two sentences from #FratelliTutti: "War, terrorist attacks, racial or religious persecution, and many other affronts to human dignity are judged differently, depending on how convenient it proves for certain, primarily economic, interests..."
Fr. James Altman (WI pastor), has produced a disturbing video w/RW pol. group, illegitimately smearing all Catholic Dems (2 by name) & even clergy & bishops (@WashArchbishop by name). In doing so he has violated Canon Law & ignored a 1993 Pope JPII directive against such actions.
Fr. James Altman (a pastor) said you cannot be Catholic + a Democrat & that we don't know God, saying at same time (w/smirk) that he doesn't love people in Borneo. Fr. Altman, pls learn the Gospels or perhaps you'd be happier w/ a different job. Bp Callahan @DIOLaCrosse? @USCCB
Won’t share his egregious video but given it's broken thru on social media & RW blogs, we must issue a Public Notice of Canon Law Transgression so all Catholics - including clergy & bishops - learn our pastors should "form consciences, not replace them," as @Pontifex says. @USCCB
The answer to your question, LW, is "because baptism is a sacrament in the Catholic Church and Mass is the way we roll"?
Yes, it's rude for you to skip Mass, even if "Deb" isn't "really religious at all."
We always end up rolling our eyes when people ask Catholicy questions at Dear Prudence.
The eye-rolling comes from the fact that so many of the people who write in with Catholic questions seem to often boil down to something that they could solve with 5 minutes of Googling.
Invocation by Dr. Polly Baca, the first Hispanic woman elected to the Colorado State Senate and in the House and Senate of a state Legislature. #CatholicsforBiden#BidenHarris
We're going to say one more thing about the #masen race because there are lots of non-MA people on here making lots of grand pronouncements.
Markey won with progressives, no doubt. But he also won in places that are commonly thought of liberal but progressive hotbeds...
...wealthy, highly-educated, and not particularly diverse. (In other words, communities like Newton, Brookline, the suburbs between Boston & Worcester). That's all fine, it was a good strategy for him.
But he was also uniquely qualified to succeed at that strategy. Why?
For one, he does truly have progressive bona fides. He was long one of the most liberal members of MA's House delegation & has a long record on issues like environment, etc. So he was v. authentic on those issues, meaning progressives didn't need to be converted to support him.