American Bishops Failed to Discipline Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians (15+ articles)
- A few are now speaking up, but they waited until AFTER the election, to their shame
- Canon 915: Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
- For the past 45 years, the bishops’ reluctance to enforce canon 915 has allowed grave scandal and contributed to the Culture of Death. We still await most American bishops to do the right thing.
- Cardinal Burke: USCCB Must Correct the Scandal of Catholic Politicians Who Promote Abortion – Complicit Clergy
- US Bishops Vote Betrays Body and Blood of Jesus – Complicit Clergy (11/17/21) quoting story at National Review
- Phil Lawler: Bishops’ Eucharistic Document “Worse Than Nothing” – Complicit Clergy (11/18/21) quoting EWTN story.
- Arizona Bishops Attempt to Cancel Pro-Life, Pro-Family Catholics (lifesitenews.com) – 11/2/22
- Cordileone should’ve banned Pelosi from Communion ten years earlier (lifesitenews.com) – 5/26/22
- DC archdiocese implies it will allow Nancy Pelosi to receive Holy Communion – lifesitenews.com – 5/24/22
- Joe Biden is the ‘product’ of weak bishops who don’t defend Church teaching: Catholic activist – lifesitenews.com
- US bishops’ pro-life chair condemns Biden’s abortion executive order, mum on denying him Communion – lifesitenews.com – 7/11/22
- Our Catholic President and the Most Pressing Moral Issue of Our Time – Word on Fire – 8/5/22
- PETITION: US bishops must excommunicate Biden after his shameful pro-abortion State of the Union address – Lifesitenews.com – 3/8/24
- ‘Scandalous’: Catholics React to Biden’s State of the Union – CatholicVote org – 3/8/24
- EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller joins calls for US bishops to excommunicate Biden – Lifesitenews.com – 3/28/24
- US bishops are lying when they say abortion is their ‘preeminent priority’ – 1/27/25. The average budget for the US bishops’ pro-life office is just around $2 million, compared to $134 million in 2023 for ‘migration and refugee services.’ Even worse, the USCCB is giving parishioners’ money to pro-abortion groups through its Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services.
- Cardinal Cupich responds to criticism over Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to give pro-abortion senator an award – Catholic Vote, 9/22/25.
- “At the heart of the consistent ethic of life is the recognition that Catholic teaching on life and dignity cannot be reduced to a single issue, even an issue as important as abortion,” Cardinal Cupich said. “The annual celebration of immigrants, Keep Hope Alive, will recognize all the critically important contributions Senator Durbin has taken to advance Catholic social teaching in the areas of immigration, the care of the poor, Laudato Si’, and world peace.”
- Cardinal Cupich concluded: “The recognition of his defense of immigrants at this moment, when they are subjected to terror and harm, is not something to be regretted, but a reflection that the Lord stands profoundly with both immigrants who are in danger and those who work to protect them.”
- Bishop Paprocki doubles down on public rebuke of Cardinal Cupich for honoring pro-abortion senator – Catholic Vote, 9/23/25.
- Bishop Paprocki condemns Cupich’s ‘absurd’ award for pro-abortion Sen. Durbin in new essay – LifeSiteNews, 9/24/25
- Nebraska Bishop Conley denounces Cupich’s plan to honor pro-abortion senator: ‘I was shocked and bewildered’ – LifeSiteNews, 9/24/25. Bishop Conley has joined San Fransisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki, and former Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland in speaking out against the decision.