Roman Catholic Bishops have no authority to be judgmental

The leader of the free world under attack- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops alert!

Catholic Bishops advance controversial Communion ban based on a political judgement. NYTimes

Opinion letter echo published in the Cape Cod Times, Massachusetts.

A wrong-minded decision aimed at the nation’s second Roman Catholic president and exposing bitter divisions in American Catholicism.

I can't believe the Catholic Church is still standing after centuries of scandal upon scandal, pay-offs and centuries of Machiavellian intrigue, could possibly even consider chastising the one sterling example of their teaching of love and compassion in Joe Biden.

Like all of us, (including the judgmental Catholic Bishops) Mr. Biden is not faultless, but he is a believer in the fundamentals of love and compassion.

Catholic Bishops, especially those who hid priests who were serial sexual abusers, have no authority to judge. Not to allow Joe Biden to take communion those 433 old-men bishops should be smarter than voting to shoot down their one example in the entire world. Why in the world would they even consider this? Let each one who has not sinned, throw the first stone.

This is not the Catholic Church I know after 20 years of Catholic education. It is a small group of "old-men chosen leaders" running the firm, not what Jesus taught. What about those few decent priests trying so hard to protect their flock and encourage them to follow the founding principles of love and kindness and who finally have the leader of the universe as their example? In the end, it is our own conscience, not a board of overseers, that should decide what is the correct thing to do. It is our life after all. (Maine Writer- In other words, the Catholic Bishops are not God.) 

Fleur Feighan Jones, Chatham, Mass.

Maine Writer P.S.:  Some Roman Catholic Bishops are using misplaced moral authority to create a political statement about abortion.  None of those hypocritical bishops has ever born a child. 

In creating draconian moral rules to fit distorted political opinions, the misguided Bishops are defying one of the instructions quoted by Jesus, in Scripture in Mark 12:17 "Jesus first called them hypocrites, and then asked one of them to produce a Roman coin that would be suitable for paying Caesar's tax. ... They answered, 'Caesar's', and he responded: 'Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's'." 

By mixing religion and politics, it's time to seriously consider how the Roman Catholic Church establishment should be taxed.