{"id":41254,"date":"2020-12-12T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41254"},"modified":"2020-12-12T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:49:06","slug":"why-is-pope-francis-anticipating-a-biden-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41254","title":{"rendered":"Why is Pope Francis anticipating a Biden victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cardinal M\u00fcller questions the Pope\u2019s \u2018anticipation\u2019 of US election result with call to Biden<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said congratulating the pro-abortion Democrat was premature.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41255\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image_9_1_810_500_75_s_c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image_9_1_810_500_75_s_c1.jpg 810w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image_9_1_810_500_75_s_c1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image_9_1_810_500_75_s_c1-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By David McLoone<\/p>\n<p>December 11, 2020 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\">(LifeSiteNews)<\/a> \u2013 \u201c(It) was a certain anticipation. Nobody knows what the official result of the U.S. election (is),\u201d Cardinal Gerhard M\u00fcller told LifeSiteNews in reference to Pope Francis prematurely congratulating Joe Biden last month as the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with LifeSite co-founder and editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen in an exclusive interview, M\u00fcller also expressed \u201chope\u201d that during the Pope\u2019s phone call with Biden that he spoke with the former vice president about \u201cabortion, which is murder of innocent babies, creatures of God, children of God,\u201d since \u201cthat is very important, not the matter of politics, but the matter of morals and the basics of our anthropology. Everybody has his life by God, and nobody has the right to kill another person.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"art-video-inline\">\n<div class=\"art-video-embed\" data-entry-id=\"212474\" data-entry-urltitle=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCRmM5Ul69Q\" data-event-type=\"Video\" data-event-play=\"Play Article Video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCRmM5Ul69Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former Prefect ofthe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith\u00a0consolidated the Catholic position in simple terms: \u201cWe as Catholics must not vote for politicians who are in favor of abortion or euthanasia or other movements against life. Life is given by God and the life of everyone is holy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But M\u00fcller\u2019s hopes that Francis did \u201cadmonish (Biden), to go on the line of the Catholic faith,\u201d may be wishful thinking. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/buildbackbetter.gov\/press-releases\/readout-of-president-elect-bidens-call-with-his-holiness-pope-francis\/\">press release<\/a> from the Biden-Harris campaign after the Pope\u2019s phone call with Biden, the Democrat\u2019s handlers stated that Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/pope-francis-extends-blessings-and-congratulations-to-pro-abortion-joe-biden\">extended<\/a> his \u201cblessings and congratulations,\u201d after which Biden expressed his own \u201cdesire to work together (with Francis) on the basis of a shared belief in the dignity and equality of all humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although a baptized Catholic, Biden is a fervent supporter of legal abortion. Archbishop Charles Chaput recently wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/former-philly-archbishop-biden-not-in-full-communion-with-the-catholic-church\"><em>First Things<\/em><\/a> that \u201c(by) his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,\u201d and that \u201cmany of his actions and words have also supported or smoothed the way for grave moral evils in our public life that have resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.\u201d Chaput noted that \u201cMr. Biden has said that he will continue to advance those same policies as president, and thus should not receive Holy Communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the phone call between Biden and Francis, the Biden campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/buildbackbetter.gov\/press-releases\/readout-of-president-elect-bidens-call-with-his-holiness-pope-francis\/\">reported<\/a> that the two talked about \u201caddressing the crisis of climate change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M\u00fcller said the Pope emphasized the wrong things. \u201cThat is a primacy of secondary things and not the most important things,\u201d he said. The cardinal went on to explain that \u201cto speak about God and Jesus Christ as the savior of everybody, of eternal life, (these) are the main points for the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus didn\u2019t found the Church for speaking about things which are of secondary importance, but of the main importance, and that is that everybody will live in grace and will come to the eternal life,\u201d the cardinal said, adding, \u201cthat is the mission of the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pope and the bishops have this mission by means of the sacramental ordination: to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to mediate the grace in the sacraments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/cardinal-mueller-questions-the-popes-anticipation-of-us-election-result-with-call-to-biden\">https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/cardinal-mueller-questions-the-popes-anticipation-of-us-election-result-with-call-to-biden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal M\u00fcller questions the Pope\u2019s \u2018anticipation\u2019 of US election result with call to Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}