William Lindsey Feb 21

"So apparently, J.D. Vance flew to the Vatican to invite Pope Leo to the United States for America’s 250th birthday, but he declined and will instead spend July 4th standing with migrants. As a practicing Catholic, I can’t put into words how meaningful it is to watch the Church meet this moment with an American as pope."

~ Mike Nellis

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So apparently, J.D. Vance flew to the Vatican to invite Pope Leo to the United States for America’s 250th birthday, but he declined and will instead spend July 4th standing with migrants. As a practicing Catholic, I can’t put into words how meaningful it is to watch the Church meet this moment with an American as pope.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 21

In the 1970s, with white Southern evangelicals outraged that the Democratic party had passed laws recognizing the rights of people of color, the US Catholic bishops made a fateful move: they allied themselves with those white evangelicals and created a Religious Right movement that became an arm of the Republican party.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 21

What has energized this movement all along has been resistance to rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ people. This alliance laid the foundation for someone like Trump to come along and claim that God is using him to save the nation — when anyone with any real sense of Christian faith knows how blasphemous and ludicrous that claim is.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 21

What was unexpected: an American pope who would begin breaking that alliance and insisting that the US Catholic bishops, a majority of whom are comfortable with the alliance, start questioning whether it reflects real Christian, real Catholic, values. Ditto for the challenge to the 6 in 10 white Catholics who have voted three times for Trump.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 21

We live in interesting times. The dissolution of the alliance between white US Catholics, their bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict, and white evangelicals is going to make for some serious fireworks, when the Republican party for some years now has managed to convince white Catholics that voting GOP was their religious duty.

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Show threadCESFeb 21
@wdlindsy I’m an American Catholic (Catholic educated) and have never once even considered voting for the orange Mussolini. JD is not a Catholic in my opinion. The alliance w/ evangelicals has always been antithetical towards Catholic teachings.
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@amazing_ces @wdlindsy
I NEVER voted Trump and was raised Catholic. Agree w/ CES about JD
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 21
@heatherlynn8571 @amazing_ces Unfortunately, 6 in 10 white Catholics voted for Trump in three elections. Vance is Catholic, as is Karoline Leavitt. The administration is packed with Catholics, and via Leonard Leo (Catholic and an Opus Dei member) and the Heritage Foundation, the hard-right wing that controls the Supreme Court is almost totally Catholic.
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@wdlindsy

Dang, what does a Catholic need to do to get excommunicated these days‽

Sheesh!

@heatherlynn8571 @amazing_ces

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