RE: Damned Catholics
January 25, 2025 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2025 at 10:13 pm by Fake Messiah.)
How Catholic bishops fail their country
Two prelates played prominent roles at the inauguration of President Trump. One seized the opportunity to speak truth to power; the other did not.
Rev. Marian Budde minced no words, speaking directly to the new president seated just a few feet away.
But Budde’s courage stands in marked contrast to Cardinal Dolan’s silence, even after Trump fulfilled his pledge to go after undocumented immigrants, even in churches and schools.
The silence is nothing unusual. As a Catholic feminist, I’m ashamed to say that the voices of Catholic leaders, whose flock includes about 30 million Catholic voters, have largely been missing in the struggle to save America’s soul.
That’s because for too many Catholic bishops, the marginalized and vulnerable have one key failing: they’ve already been born.
Why didn’t the bishops raise the alarm much sooner when Catholic voters might have paid attention? Because the bishops are focused on one issue — opposition to abortion.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) made that clear in its 2024 voters’ guide. Candidates’ positions on abortion should be the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholics.
In 2024, more than six out of 10 devout white Catholics — 64% — preferred Trump over Kamala Harris. Latino Catholics voted for Harris, but by much smaller margins than for Joe Biden in 2020. Overall, 53% of Catholics supported Trump.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the head of the USCCB, issued a statement on the Trump executive orders that was the bare minimum one would expect from the Catholic Church. He deemed the executive orders on immigrants and refugees, foreign aid and the death penalty, “deeply troubling,” but praised Trump’s order recognizing two biological sexes, male and female.
Most prelates will go to bat for the “pre-born.” Their passion for life declines dramatically after delivery.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/25/h...r-country/
Two prelates played prominent roles at the inauguration of President Trump. One seized the opportunity to speak truth to power; the other did not.
Rev. Marian Budde minced no words, speaking directly to the new president seated just a few feet away.
But Budde’s courage stands in marked contrast to Cardinal Dolan’s silence, even after Trump fulfilled his pledge to go after undocumented immigrants, even in churches and schools.
The silence is nothing unusual. As a Catholic feminist, I’m ashamed to say that the voices of Catholic leaders, whose flock includes about 30 million Catholic voters, have largely been missing in the struggle to save America’s soul.
That’s because for too many Catholic bishops, the marginalized and vulnerable have one key failing: they’ve already been born.
Why didn’t the bishops raise the alarm much sooner when Catholic voters might have paid attention? Because the bishops are focused on one issue — opposition to abortion.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) made that clear in its 2024 voters’ guide. Candidates’ positions on abortion should be the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholics.
In 2024, more than six out of 10 devout white Catholics — 64% — preferred Trump over Kamala Harris. Latino Catholics voted for Harris, but by much smaller margins than for Joe Biden in 2020. Overall, 53% of Catholics supported Trump.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the head of the USCCB, issued a statement on the Trump executive orders that was the bare minimum one would expect from the Catholic Church. He deemed the executive orders on immigrants and refugees, foreign aid and the death penalty, “deeply troubling,” but praised Trump’s order recognizing two biological sexes, male and female.
Most prelates will go to bat for the “pre-born.” Their passion for life declines dramatically after delivery.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/25/h...r-country/
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"
