"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

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals
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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.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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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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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.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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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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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.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans
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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."

~ Mike Nellis

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals
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"This too is a day for those who are made to feel like dust, dust that can be swept away or treated as if they do not belong. It is a day for those who work with the dust of the earth in construction, in cleaning, in harvesting the crops of the fields, all to support their families. Yet, remember from the beginning it is dust that God uses to create humanity." #ICE #Immigration #USPol #Religion #Catholic #Christianity https://www.ncronline.org/news/god-does-not-need-papers-cardinals-spend-ash-wednesday-ice-detainees-their-families

"As the Trump administration escalated its assault on human dignity, many Catholics have wondered: Where are our bishops? Why don't they do something?

Where were their voices when cuts to USAID consigned millions across the world to hunger, thirst and death?"

~ National Catholic Reporter

#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops
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https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-bishops-united-states-history-has-its-eyes-you

As a right-wing Catholic outfit that's the personal plaything of a right-wing Catholic entrepreneur, Ave Maria is heavily invested in the "pro-life" movement. It sends a big contingent to the annual March for Life in DC — which just so happens to have been the venue in which measles infected Ave Maria students and other "pro-life" marchers.

#Catholic #AveMariaUniversity #measles #Trump #ProLife
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/ave-maria-university-battles-measles-outbreak

As a right-wing Catholic outfit that's the personal plaything of a right-wing Catholic entrepreneur, Ave Maria is heavily invested in the "pro-life" movement. It sends a big contingent to the annual March for Life in DC — which just so happens to have been the venue in which measles infected Ave Maria students and other "pro-life" marchers.

#Catholic #AveMariaUniversity #measles #Trump #ProLife
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/ave-maria-university-battles-measles-outbreak

And speaking of the various strands of religion and Christianity in the US and the influence of those strands, there's this story:

There's a major outbreak of measles at the right-wing Catholic university in Florida, Ave Maria. Ave Maria is the love child of right-wing Catholic entrepreneur and pizza magnate of Domino's fame, Tom Monaghan.

#Catholic #AveMariaUniversity #measles #Trump #ProLife
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https://www.healthday.com/health-news/infectious-disease/a-florida-college-has-reported-more-than-40-measles-cases

"Pope Leo XIV has turned down Donald Trump’s invitation to join his so-called 'Board of Peace', a senior Vatican official said.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, told reporters on Tuesday that the Pope had a number of concerns about the initiative and that he 'will not participate' as a result."

~ Maroosha Muzaffar

#PopeLeo #Trump #Catholic
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-trump-board-of-peace-invite-gaza-b2922473.html

"Pope Leo XIV has turned down Donald Trump’s invitation to join his so-called 'Board of Peace', a senior Vatican official said.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, told reporters on Tuesday that the Pope had a number of concerns about the initiative and that he 'will not participate' as a result."

~ Maroosha Muzaffar

#PopeLeo #Trump #Catholic
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-trump-board-of-peace-invite-gaza-b2922473.html

"His continued silence on the murder of Catholic ICE nurse Alex Pretti, paired with effusive praise for Marco Rubio’s Munich speech and unprovoked attacks on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Party, signals a deepening partisan drift that stands in stark contrast to Pope Leo XIV’s consistent moral witness on migrants and religious liberty."

#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #RobertBarron
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"Bishop Robert Barron, once viewed as a thoughtful evangelist bridging faith and culture, has in recent weeks accelerated a troubling alignment with the Trump-Vance administration and MAGA priorities.

Barron’s latest partisan provocations are now raising alarm within the Vatican."

~ Christopher Hale

#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #RobertBarron
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/bishop-barrons-latest-maga-crusade

"Where were their voices when federal agents gunned down two U.S. citizens protesting inhumane treatment of migrants? ...

Had our church's leaders spoken out earlier against the administration's cruelty toward migrants, with the urgency and unity they once devoted to issues such as same-sex marriage, religious liberty or abortion, perhaps political realities would have shifted sooner."

#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic
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