Pope Francis spoke by phone with Joe Biden on Thursday morning, becoming the latest world leader to congratulate the American president-elect.
Biden thanked Francis “for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the world,” according to a statement from the Biden transition team.
Biden also “expressed his desire to work together on the basis of a shared belief in the dignity and equality of all humankind on issues such as caring for the marginalized and the poor, addressing the crisis of climate change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities,” the statement said.
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Birds of feather and all that. Species of bird: Vulture.
“President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning with His Holiness Pope Francis. The president-elect thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the world.”
Biden should have enthusiastically thanked the pope for discouraging his flock to be ‘single issue (i.e. pro-life) voters’, tacitly ignoring the elephant in the room (abortion).
“The president-elect expressed his desire to work together on the basis of shared belief in the dignity and equality of all humankind on issues such as caring for the marginalized and the poor, addressing the crisis of climate change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities.”
Reading this, I reach the conclusion that the unwanted unborn don’t warrant any dignity or equality treatment whatsoever. Apparently, Biden’s (and maybe the pope’s) concern for immigrants and refugees ‘trump’ any safeguards for protecting innocent babies who are often viewed in America as non-entities and throwaways.
Archbishop Gomez also called on all American Catholics “to promote fraternity and mutual trust. The American people have spoken in this election. Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and to commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good,” he said.
The word ‘compromise’ in this context is troublesome. A compromise is an agreement wrought by mutual consent. There should be no compromise insofar as the unborn are concerned as they are American citizens waiting to be born into a nation that once promised ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’.
Infanticide (the elephant in the room) is antithetic to the ‘common good’, or to any good for that matter.
In fairness, Biden probably thought he was talking to John XXIII.
“There should be no compromise insofar as the unborn are concerned ….” Amen JB
Dale Price.
I think your being too gracious.
In all fairness, Biden thought he was talking to Pat Robertson.