Archbishop Gregory denounces Biden
No self-respecting Christian would judge another Christian’s faith. After all, the Bible teaches,
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
(Matthew 7:1-3 KJV)
Yet that’s precisely what no less a Christian than Cardinal Wilton Gregory did. He’s the Archbishop of Washington. So you’d think he would know better than to commit this cardinal sin, especially against no less a Christian than President Joe Biden.
Like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts. That there is a phrase that we have used in the past, a ‘cafeteria Catholic,’ you choose that which is attractive, and dismiss that which is challenging.
(CBS News, March 31, 2024)
Gregory appeared for a joint Easter Sunday interview with the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, the Ret. Reverend Mariann Budde. And it speaks volumes that Budde exposed Gregory’s sin right there on the set. Because she immediately corrected his condemnation of Biden as follows:
It’s also possible to be a practitioner of the faith as a public leader and not require everyone that you lead in your country to be guided by all of the precepts of your faith. Right?
Archbishop Gregory is not without sin
I wish Rev. Budde had humbled Gregory by citing the famous proverb,
- People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
After all, when it comes to being a “cafeteria Catholic,” Biden has nothing on the rogues gallery of pedophile priests and bishops, like Gregory, who covered up their sexual abuse of little children.
So, if he’s a cafeteria Catholic, at least Biden is adding healthy greens to the Church’s menu. After all, by acknowledging transgender Americans as children of God, Biden was just doing what Jesus did by acknowledging the prostitute as a child of God.
Meanwhile, by carving out indulgences for sex with children, Church leaders were enabling priests to gorge themselves on red meat that was poisoning their souls.
Frankly, Gregory strikes me as the Clarence Thomas of Catholic bishops, a political hack draped in religious robes rather than judicial ones.
Then again, like most evangelicals, Gregory probably has more faith in Trump than in God these days. And Trump has his followers believing that hypocrisy is a virtue, not a vice.