"For the Christian church as a whole, this is one of those crucible moments, where we are tested to see whether we will be true to Jesus or succumb to the lure of amoral powers. Will we be the church of the papal princes like Alexander VI, the church of bigoted influencers like Fr. Charles Coughlin? Or, conversely, will we be the church of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Oscar Romero and Servant of God Thea Bowman?"
"It's not the 1960s anymore. Catholics are not a persecuted minority in the United States. We are a powerful political force. This force can be wielded for justice or for injustice, and Catholics need to come to grips with the fact that the tale of institutional Catholicism working against justice is woven through our 2,000-year history, globally and in the United States."
"This is not a matter of anti-Catholic vs. Catholic. It is, rather, a struggle for the soul of the church, a clash between those who wish to weaponize religion for domination, and those who want it to be a source of healing and liberation. …
Flirting with authoritarianism is, in a sense, part of the Catholic tradition — the part that far right radical traditionalists want to reclaim."
"Let's not forget that white Catholics helped get Trump elected, and that high-powered, well-funded Catholic groups are intimately involved in the MAGA movement, and have been orchestrating and manipulating it. Despite the MAGA movement's innate sexism, conservative Catholic women influencers have worked, both covertly and overtly, to promote Trump."
Their attack on democracy is an attack on members of minority communities they seek to other, to represent as different from and lesser from those who should by natural and divine law dominate everyone else.
Rebecca Bratten Weiss writes,
Alito is a prime example. It should not be forgotten that Alito's wife — obviously with his complicity and approval — has fantasized about flying flags attacking LGBTQ people.
These are folks — the right-wing Catholic bloc controlling the Supreme Court are folks — actively hostile to all sorts of minority groups.
#SupremeCourt #Catholics #MAGA #OpusDei #democracy
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/politics/alito-pride-flag.html
Rebecca Bratten Weiss's article about the MAGA split within the US Catholic church is timely, in light of the fact that a bloc of Supreme Court justices controlled by right-wing integralist Catholics, most witwh strong ties to the secretive, wealthy, theocratic-aspiring Catholic cult Opus Dei, have just gutted the Voting Rights Act.
This bloc is actively working to undermine democracy.
El #TribunalSupremo de nuestro Excelentísimo Estado de Derechas no tendría cojones de emitir esta sentencia si la #ClaseTrabajadora estuviera organizada de verdad.
Nuestros jueces no trabajan para la patria de #España, sino para #BlackRock y sionistas vía #OpusDei. https://www.eldiario.es/economia/supremo-rechaza-inspeccion-trabajo-entrar-libremente-miles-empresas_1_13174748.html
La sentencia exige que exista una orden judicial para entrar en centros de trabajo cuando coincida con el domicilio social de las compañías, algo muy frecuente en pymes, un veredicto que ha levantado en contra a los sindicatos de la Inspección
As Lauren Egan notes, with upcoming empty seats on the Supreme Court anticipated, "the possibility of a Supreme Court confirmation fight has been the subject of rampant chatter among the Washington political class."
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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"Remember when Amy Coney Barrett said of her colleagues 'we’re not a bunch of partisan hacks?' Well, they are a bunch of partisan hacks. And the number one partisan hack is John Roberts."
~ Norman Ornstein
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://xcancel.com/NormOrnstein/status/2045843172828295264#m
William Lindsey 
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