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Bishop Donald Hying. Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Madison.
CNA Staff, Jan 29, 2021 / 04:14 pm (CNA).- The polarization of American politics means that Catholics must be a force for unity rather than “divisively tribal,” and clergy especially need to be careful that they don’t let their personal politics compromise their Christian mission, Bishop Donald Hying of Madison has said.
“All Catholics have to be careful to engage in political life in a manner that reflects the Gospel, but clergy need to exercise special caution so that their political activity is consistent with their vocation in the Church,” he said in a Jan. 27 reflection on the “current state of general acrimony.”
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President Biden just became the second Roman Catholic to hold the office, and he hasn’t kept his creed from the world.
Biden, his campaign, and scriptwriters for the Democratic National Convention relied heavily on his faith and personal devotion as a method of persuasion leading up to his election. He even quoted St. Augustine in his inaugural address. And so, to make sense of the Biden presidency will be to make sense of a nominally Catholic presidency.
It won’t be a particularly easy or seamless exercise for Catholics in the United States.
Aside from his creed, Biden hasn’t kept his position on abortion from the world either. The president withdrew his support for the Hyde Amendment during this election cycle a measure that prevents federal funds from going to most abortions. You just can’t win as a Democrat otherwise. He wants to codify
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