Mar-a-Lago is becoming the Vatican of America.
Quote:Catholic group to gather 100 clergy, including some from Florida, for gala at Trump's club
More than 100 Catholic priests, nuns and clergy are to gather at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club next week.
The event, Catholic Prayer for America, is hosted by Catholics for Catholics. The group's president and CEO, John Yep, and board member Cameron Moore predict it will be the "largest" prayer and faith-based event to be held at the Palm Beach club that is the center of conservative politics in America.
Catholics for Catholics held a gala at Mar-a-Lago last year with actor James Caviezel, who played Jesus in the film "The Passion of the Christ."
Moore, founder of the American Heroes Association, is sponsoring the more than 100 Catholic clergy attending.
Two years ago, Yep said, the organization rallied 5,000 people to protest the appearance of the satirical drag group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at a Los Angeles Dodgers' LGBTQ event at Dodger Stadium.
In last year's election, Yep said the work of Catholics for Catholics and other like-minded groups proved pivotal in Trump's recapturing the White House.
Trump trounced Vice President Kamala Harris by 18 percentage points, 58% to 40%, among Catholics. Another survey showed that Trump's margins among white and Hispanic Catholics was pivotal in winning six decisive swing states.
Speakers at this year's event include Jean Marshall, a Massachusetts resident who was sentenced last year to 24 months in prison after being found guilty by a jury of civil rights conspiracy and violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, according to a statement issued by the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.
Among those also taking the podium will be Joe Thomas, who was pardoned by Trump for offenses during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was removed from his post in Tyler, Texas, by Pope Francis in 2023.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
