The U.S. bishops, together with Pope Francis, prided themselves as being pro-life when they got President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of 37 prisoners on federal death row.
When he was the Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, Pope Leo XIV in 2023 declared, “A Catholic cannot truly claim to be ‘pro-life’ by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favor of the death penalty.”
Interestingly, neither Pope Francis nor the U.S. bishops were instrumental in getting the sentences commuted for pro-life activists who were arrested for praying and demonstrating at abortion clinics. President Joe Biden, accused of receiving holy communion sacrilegiously owing to his support for abortion funding, weaponized his Department of Justice (DoJ) to bring charges against more than 30 pro-lifers under the FACE Act.
Reported to have been a college pro-life leader at Villanova University in the 1970s, seminarian Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has to decide if being pro-life includes lowering the suicide rate in the Catholic Church caused by clerical sex abuse and cover-ups. When many abuse victims discover that the pain they suffer from being abused and having their abuse covered up by Church leaders is not relieved by drugs and alcohol, they often turn to suicide. In many cases, the bishop who covers up for an abusive priest is the same bishop who refuses to be held accountable for the priest’s victim’s subsequent suicide.
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