Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Catholic bishops are ‘controlled by Satan’
Greene made the controversial post on X just hours after the Vatican announced the passing of Pope Francis’ passing.
“Today there were major shifts in global leaderships,” it reads. “Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.”
After the post was made, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called for Greene’s censure.
The congresswoman then doubled down in a lengthy statement issued Wednesday, demanding an apology over a letter Catholic League President William Donohue sent to the House Ethics Committee.
Greene said she stopped attending mass when she became a mother after realizing “she could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles.”
“It’s the church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil,” she continues. “Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said ‘controlled by Satan,’ I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.”
Greene did not mention Pope Francis by name in her response. However, the pope is the bishop of Rome.
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/04/30/rep-marj...-by-satan/
Greene made the controversial post on X just hours after the Vatican announced the passing of Pope Francis’ passing.
“Today there were major shifts in global leaderships,” it reads. “Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.”
After the post was made, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called for Greene’s censure.
The congresswoman then doubled down in a lengthy statement issued Wednesday, demanding an apology over a letter Catholic League President William Donohue sent to the House Ethics Committee.
Greene said she stopped attending mass when she became a mother after realizing “she could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles.”
“It’s the church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil,” she continues. “Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said ‘controlled by Satan,’ I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.”
Greene did not mention Pope Francis by name in her response. However, the pope is the bishop of Rome.
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/04/30/rep-marj...-by-satan/
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"
