Due to President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Vatican’s highest doctrine office, condemned President Biden and indicated that he, and all proponents of abortion, should be excommunicated.
Müller’s comments on the matter came during an interview with LifeSiteNews conducted as the abortion debate becomes an increasingly large political battle, and even Catholic Democrats like Rep. Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden support abortion rights, siding with their political bases over the current teachings of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church still remains firmly against abortion in most cases.
Speaking about why he is against abortion, Cardinal Müller told LifeSiteNews, “The word ‘abortion’ is too much a soft word. The reality is killing, murder of a living person.” He continued, “There’s no right to kill another person. It’s absolutely against the Fifth Commandment.”
Such is what Cardinal Müller said during his interview with Christian outlet LifeSiteNews, likening abortion and assisted medical suicide for th elderly to the “Nazi” times. He said that “it’s absolutely unacceptable that you can say you are a Catholic and promote and justify killing of human persons, human beings [from] the beginning in the mother’s womb, until the last respiration [with] euthanasia… Killing of ill people, like in the Nazi times, is euthanasia.”
Then, building on that, the cardinal disputed Biden’s supposedly “strong” Catholic faith, saying that really President Biden is a cynical politician. Speaking about that, Cardinal Müller said that while President Joe Biden is “nominally a Catholic, in reality he is a Nihilist. It’s cynicism and absolute cynicism.”
Then, getting to the excommunication subject, Cardinal Müller spoke about how such a process would work and whether it should happen. Beginning, he said that “the first step must be that we [must] have the unanimous U.S. bishops conference, probably together with other Christian religious, other religious leaders, [give] an absolute, clear, strong statement that this [abortion] is against all the standards and principles of humanity.”
Continuing, LifeSiteNews reports that the cardinal indicated such a statement should say “That they [would say] absolutely clearly that everybody in public responsibility who, as a Catholic, is promoting this infanticide, that they are excommunicated.”
Continuing, and addressing Biden and excommunication directly, he said, “So [even] in the case if one is not formally excommunicated, if these people receive Holy Communion, they don’t receive the Holy Communion only with their mouth, [as] they don’t receive the grace. They receive it, according to the words of Saint Paul, for their own condemnation, and Biden and all these people, they must know that in the ultimate judgment, when they appear after their death before the tribunal of God, that this is a mortal sin, what they are doing. Even if they are not personally doing it, but they are cooperators, direct cooperators of the murders of innocent people.”
He then said, “Biden says that he has had been in the Catholic schools, but I want to ask what did he learn there? For what is this religion? It’s not only a certain feeling of belonging to, or a little sentimentality, or a little spirituality of inner good feeling, to read some poems or some books, and so you are feeling well, looking at nature and the apples… all nice. It’s not religion. Religion is a clear confession of all your person, of all your being, to give yourself as a sacrifice to God and for the others. That is our Christian religion.”
Watch Biden speak about abortion during his State of the Union address here:
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