As Arwa Mahdawi reports, Mr. Hegseth, the Secretary of War, who belongs to Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship near Nashville (part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches), prayed this past week at the Pentagon for "overwhelming violence" in the Iranian war.
#Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/28/pete-hegseth-violence-religion-israel-iran
In his Palm Sunday homily today, Pope Leo said:
"This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. (Jesus) does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: 'Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.'"
#PopeLeo #Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-trump-war-palm-sunday-b2947833.html
These words (in /2) are a direct rebuke to those like the US Secretary of War Hegseth, who distort and pervert Christian faith to justify the unjustifiable, praying repeatedly, as Hegseth did again publicly this week asking for God to bless "overwhelming violence" in Trump's illegal war of choice against Iran.
#PopeLeo #Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Embracing the idea that there is a perfect past currently being destroyed, Trump echoes twentieth-century fascists who promised to return their country to divinely inspired rules that, if ignored, would create disaster."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"If American religion were 100 people:
23 Evangelicals
19 Catholics
11 Mainline Protestants
5 Black Prot.
3 Other Christians
2 LDS
2 Jews
2 Other Religion
1 Buddhist
1 Hindu
1 Muslim
19 Nothing in particular
6 Agnostics
5 Atheists"
~ Ryan Burge
#Trump #Iran #war #Christianity #religion #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteCatholics
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PRRI reported this week that white evangelicals and white Catholics stand out from all other religious groups in their support for Trump and Stephen Miller's cruel ethnic cleansing program with mass deportation of immigrants and mass incarceration of immigrants in holding camps.
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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So why do some commentators (I'm included) focus on the fact that white Catholics have voted three times in a majority for Trump, and along with white evangelicals, are the only religious group continuing to support the cruelty of the ethnic cleansing agenda of the Trump regime?
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics do not represent the entire US Catholic church by any means. Catholics of color do not dance to the white Catholic tune.
However: institutional and economic power in the US Catholic church is solidly in the hands of white Catholics. A majority of the US Catholic bishops are white Catholics.
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics wield enormous disproportionate influence in the Trump regime and on the Supreme Court.
There are those who claim that adverting to these facts is racist.
It's precisely the opposite of racist to do so —
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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— and to face what the facts tell us about those who have most institutional and economic power in the Catholic church in the US and their role in bringing the nightmare of MAGA to us.
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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James Bloodworth offers a valuable report on the rise of elite evangelical nationalism in the UK with ample support from billionaire Sir Paul Marshall:
"He believes that liberalism has 'lost its moorings', that the Enlightenment has corrupted society, and that only a revival of Christian values – as interpreted by a narrow and authoritarian strain of elite evangelicalism – can save Britain from moral collapse."
#UK #WhiteChristianNationalism #billionaires
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-billionaire-the-bible-and-the
"His Christianity is not the Christianity of soup kitchens or social justice. It is the Christianity of governing classes who feel they have lost their place in the social order. ...
He is very much a behind-the-scenes operator. ...
Marshall – who has made vast sums speculating on the financial markets – is now investing so heavily in media, education, and the church. The goal is not so much piecemeal reform as civilisational renewal."
"Those who cheer his coming are not generally the rich and powerful, or the religious leaders and government officials, but the ones who have to remove their cloaks to create a makeshift royal path, because they don’t just have spare cloth sitting around. On this morning, Jesus enters Jerusalem and begins to usher in an entirely new way of being human in the world."
~ Lutheran pastor Angela Denker
#PalmSunday #billionaires #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/sunday-stretch-palm-sunday-2026
Francis X. Rocca notes that for years now, the US Catholic bishops have pushed "right-coded concerns," notably, an anti-abortion message. But with Popes Francis and Leo, they are now slowly aligning themselves to oppose the cruelty of Trump's ethnic-cleansing program — though many Catholics (notably white ones) continue supporting that program.
#Trump #StephenMiller #EthnicCleansing #immigrants #PopeLeo
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/catholic-church-trump-immigration/686510/
Paul Moses focuses on how "border czar" Tom Homan's Catholicism, with its fervent support for Trump-Miller's ethnic-cleansing crusade, clashes with the Caatholicism of Popes Leo and Francis and the US Catholic bishops aligned with those popes.
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #EthnicCleansing #immigrants #PopeLeo
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/gospel-tom-homan-trump-moses-paul-catholic-social-teaching
"The bishops aren’t asking the czar to stop enforcing the law. They’re asking for it to be done humanely. Homan’s view is that 'inhumane treatment is just a bunch of crap,' as he said on EWTN."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #EthnicCleansing #immigrants #PopeLeo
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I don't know how to break it to the writer of this article that in the Catholic Church the *literal definition of Catholicism* is "whatever the Pope's Catholicism is".
Better (and more accurate!) to write that the writer focuses on "Tom Homan's heresy against the Catholic Church".
@johnzajac @wdlindsy The white evangelicals and white catholics are heretics; they are the Romans, seeking to execute a poor, brown dude who was trying to help his people and religion.
Reminder that Paul created the "Christ" myth.
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