The liberal media has lauded President Joe Biden for practicing his Catholic faith, even when Biden flouts church teachings, such as indicating support for abortion rights.
But for someone so devoted to his faith, our allegedly devout Catholic president has been noticeably silent about religious bigotry directed at Catholic churches.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, or USCCB, recently released a report documenting at least 93 incidents of hate targeting Catholic churches and facilities.
Those acts have occurred in 28 states since May 2020. Thirty-eight have happened during 2021.
The most recent case documented by the USCCB came on Aug. 17, when a statue was knocked down at St. Michael’s church in Flushing, New York.
“Incidents include arson, statues beheaded, limbs cut, smashed, and painted, gravestones defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language and American flags next to them burned, and other destruction and vandalism,” the report notes.
Back in June, Cardinal Timothy Dolan in New York wrote a piece condemning these attacks.
“When people attack religion, faith, the churches, mosques, synagogues, or, worse, persons, our entire culture, society, and common good are weakened and threatened,” Dolan argued. “These disturbed people of hate are shrewd. Nihilists and anarchists know that to wreck civilization, it is effective to target those who nobly advocate for the dignity of the human person and the sacredness of all human life — and that means people of faith and their houses of worship. While we pray for these culprits, we condemn their acts.”
“Where is the outrage?” Dolan continued. “We preach love! Why do some hate us?”
On this issue, the media has been obsessed with two things: First, the breathless reporting of numerous “hate crimes” that turned out to be fake. Secondly, the battle among Catholics, including bishops, over whether Biden and other liberal Democrats would be denied communion for supporting abortion.
Yet the silence from the White House and the media amid these dozens of attacks is deafening. Imagine if 93 crimes of violence and desecration were carried out against black churches or synagogues. Think the public wouldn’t know about them?
Of course, Biden, as only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, could, and should, be the one most vocal in criticism of these attacks and vowing that perpetrators will be punished.
Yet, as Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, told The Washington Times on Tuesday in an article about this rise in anti-Catholic hate crimes, “We commented last year that it was shocking that then-candidate Joe Biden did not comment on the rise of vandalism against Catholics, especially since he was running as a devout Catholic. And, of course, he hasn’t said anything since.”
And that is Biden’s real sin here.
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