A pair of controversial liberal priests visited President Joe Biden’s White House Sunday as part of an event billed as a “St. Patrick’s Day Brunch with Catholic Leaders.”
Frs. James Martin and Thomas Reese, SJ, were among the brunch’s attendees.
Three days earlier, Biden running mate Vice President Kamala Harris became the highest-ranking incumbent official in American history to visit an abortion facility, where she praised Planned Parenthood and attacked the work of pro-life elected officials.
Addressing Martin, Reese, and the other attendees on Sunday, Biden said:
The Catholic Church has always stepped in when people were suffering to meet their needs — food, shelter, healthcare, education. Your organizations make real the instructions of Jesus and — gave his apostles, “Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers — these, my brothers and sisters, you do unto me.” And that’s kind of the essence of who we all are.
Martin is the founder of Outreach, a deeply controversial organization that bills itself as an “LGBTQ Catholic ministry.”
In an exposé published last year, CatholicVote called Martin’s group an “LGBTQ pressure group … hardly distinguishable from its secular counterparts except by its exclusive focus on opposing the Catholic Church’s resistance to the LGBTQ movement’s aims.”
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