Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), sent a letter to Joe Biden after he was sworn in as president on January 20, saying he felt obliged to point out that our new president has pledged to pursue certain policies opposed by the Catholic Church "in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender," the Yahoo News website reports today (January 23, 2021).
Biden, only the second Catholic U.S. president (after John F. Kennedy), has caused severe divisions among U.S. Catholics for opposing Catholic doctrine by being in favor of abortions, allowing divorced Catholics to remarry, and supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transvestite lifestyles.
On the other hand, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, issued a rare public rebuke of Gomez's letter, saying the USCCB's "ill-considered statement" for Biden's inauguration "came as a surprise to many bishops, who received it just hours before it was released..."
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