2024 US Presidential Election

[Pat Mustard]

Thousands Sign Christian Petition Urging Bishops Not to Back Donald Trump

Thousands have signed a progressive Christian group's petition calling for Catholic bishops to drop support for ex-President Donald Trump.

Faithful America, which backs social justice causes and opposes "Christian nationalism," urged Catholics to condemn bishops who "boost the Christofascist campaign of Donald Trump" in a recently launched online petition that had been signed by over 12,500 as of Friday afternoon.

The group mentioned in particular the "disturbing praise of Trump" from Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan and former Bishop Joseph Strickland, of Tyler, Texas, "inappropriately" endorsing a sermon that erroneously claimed Democrats cannot be Catholic.

"Pro-Trump words and actions like those we saw from Cardinal Dolan, Bishop Strickland, and others in 2020 were partisan, unpastoral, and extremely harmful to immigrants, the poor, and the marginalized," the petition reads. "They no doubt pushed many people away from the Church and should not be repeated in 2024."

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-sign-...mp-1862370

I do love and respect progressive christian, but their naiveté is astonishing some times. The object of religion is power after all, and no religious leader is going to give up a sniff of power.