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"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?"

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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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,

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/politics/alito-pride-flag.html

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.

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Justice Alito’s Wife, in Secretly Recorded Conversation, Complains About Pride Flag

In a conversation with a woman posing as a conservative supporter, Martha-Ann Alito appeared to push back against having to look at a symbol of L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

The New York Times

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/maga-split-isnt-catholic-vs-protestant-its-struggle-churchs-soul

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.

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MAGA split isn't Catholic vs. Protestant: It's a struggle for the church's soul

"Flirting with authoritarianism is, in a sense, part of the Catholic tradition — the part that far-right radical traditionalists want to reclaim," writes Rebecca Bratten Weiss.

National Catholic Reporter