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“You should not be afraid of someone who reads many books. You should fear someone who has only one book that he considers sacred, but he has never read it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“You should not be afraid of someone who reads many books. You should fear someone who has only one book that he considers sacred, but he has never read it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
William Grimm notes the futility of the choice now of a few US Catholic bishops to try to exercise moral leadership after the bishops as a body did all but stand on their heads to place Trump in the White House. As he notes, under their leadership, many US Catholics were led to support Trump in two elections — in which some 6 in 10 white Catholics voted for Trump.
"The sad truth is that the bishops must rely upon lawyers because they no longer are able to lead America’s Catholics. They cannot lead because they no longer have followers. They are no longer heard, let alone heeded. …
Apart from a wholesale reconstitution of the American hierarchy, it is unlikely that the Church in the United States will become a prophetic presence at a time when prophets are more needed than ever."
Now, belatedly and rather than lamenting and admitting their abdication of pastoral leadership, a few bishops are filing lawsuits to try to curb the cruelty of the administration, its attacks on immigrants, its destruction of aid programs, etc.
Too little, too late, and entirely unsystemic, this piecemeal approach of filing lawsuits. Grimm says,
"The sad truth is that the bishops must rely upon lawyers because they no longer are able to lead America’s Catholics."
"The sad truth is that the bishops must rely upon lawyers because they no longer are able to lead America’s Catholics. They cannot lead because they no longer have followers. They are no longer heard, let alone heeded. …
Apart from a wholesale reconstitution of the American hierarchy, it is unlikely that the Church in the United States will become a prophetic presence at a time when prophets are more needed than ever."
William Grimm notes the futility of the choice now of a few US Catholic bishops to try to exercise moral leadership after the bishops as a body did all but stand on their heads to place Trump in the White House. As he notes, under their leadership, many US Catholics were led to support Trump in two elections — in which some 6 in 10 white Catholics voted for Trump.
Now, belatedly and rather than lamenting and admitting their abdication of pastoral leadership, a few bishops are filing lawsuits to try to curb the cruelty of the administration, its attacks on immigrants, its destruction of aid programs, etc.
Too little, too late, and entirely unsystemic, this piecemeal approach of filing lawsuits. Grimm says,
"The sad truth is that the bishops must rely upon lawyers because they no longer are able to lead America’s Catholics."
William Grimm notes the futility of the choice now of a few US Catholic bishops to try to exercise moral leadership after the bishops as a body did all but stand on their heads to place Trump in the White House. As he notes, under their leadership, many US Catholics were led to support Trump in two elections — in which some 6 in 10 white Catholics voted for Trump.
"On July 3, the Supreme Court handed down its final order vacating the lower court’s preliminary injunction and paving the way for their removal to South Sudan—due process, to determine whether this violates U.S. and international law barring torture, be damned."
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/17
"On July 3, the Supreme Court handed down its final order vacating the lower court’s preliminary injunction and paving the way for their removal to South Sudan—due process, to determine whether this violates U.S. and international law barring torture, be damned."
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/17
The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/15
Linda Chavez thinks that the decision of the "pro-life" Supreme Court's right-wing Catholic bloc to allow deportations to third-world countries should shock American consciences (the terms "pro-life" and "right-wing Catholic bloc" are my addition, not hers).
She writes,
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/16
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-conservative-supreme-courts-decision
The media have focused largely on white evangelicals as the big force intent on replacing democracy with theocracy, but behind the scenes, the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have done everything they can to make it appear their hands are not dirty, have pulled the strings, using white evangelicals while avoiding media scrutiny.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/14
The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/15
The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/15
That alliance has had fateful and lasting consequences. It led first to the formation of the Religious Right and eventually to MAGA and white Christian nationalism.
To make the Religious Right's crusade against the Democrats and human rights appear more morally acceptable than it was when it was born out of racism, the Catholic bishops focused on abortion.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/12
White evangelicals, who had never said a peep about the abortion issue and couldn't care less about it, became gung-ho in the anti-abortion cause, with the U.S. Catholic bishops quietly engineering this response behind the scenes — and assisting Leonard Leo in the stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right Opus Dei-leaning Catholics.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/13
The media have focused largely on white evangelicals as the big force intent on replacing democracy with theocracy, but behind the scenes, the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have done everything they can to make it appear their hands are not dirty, have pulled the strings, using white evangelicals while avoiding media scrutiny.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/14
White evangelicals, who had never said a peep about the abortion issue and couldn't care less about it, became gung-ho in the anti-abortion cause, with the U.S. Catholic bishops quietly engineering this response behind the scenes — and assisting Leonard Leo in the stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right Opus Dei-leaning Catholics.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/13
White evangelicals, who had never said a peep about the abortion issue and couldn't care less about it, became gung-ho in the anti-abortion cause, with the U.S. Catholic bishops quietly engineering this response behind the scenes — and assisting Leonard Leo in the stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right Opus Dei-leaning Catholics.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/13
That alliance has had fateful and lasting consequences. It led first to the formation of the Religious Right and eventually to MAGA and white Christian nationalism.
To make the Religious Right's crusade against the Democrats and human rights appear more morally acceptable than it was when it was born out of racism, the Catholic bishops focused on abortion.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/12
The history that people concerned about the Supreme Court's destruction of democracy — destruction driven by theocratic ideas — need to know is the following:
When civil rights legislation was enacted by the Democrats in the 1960s, white evangelicals kicked and screamed. At this point, the US Catholic bishops allied themselves with white evangelicals.
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
/11
"The installation of six Supreme Court justices tied to this movement, largely orchestrated by Leonard Leo, is no coincidence. It is a calculated campaign to undo democracy in the name of Christ."
#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
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