More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.

Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.

Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.

Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
/11

And at the same meeting at which the US bishops made their immigration statement, they elected as their president a culture-war hero, Coakley of Oklahoma City, who is thickly allied with the hard-right Catholic organization Napa Institute, a vehicle by which ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US use their money to try to combat the Vatican's emphasis on social teaching. Coakley was openly contemptuous of Pope Francis.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.

Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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Over half of US white Catholics (and of white Christians across the board) voted for the horrors and cruelty the Trump administration is visiting on immigrants. Those white Catholics cast their votes with the same US bishops who recently issued their immigrant statement as their pastoral and moral leaders.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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"But [the bishops] didn’t talk about what got us here. Over 50 percent of Catholics were okay with this, with the rhetoric of dehumanizing immigrants. They’re not talking about how we engage with those issues in the political sphere.”

Holler is talking about the fact that over half of white Catholics voted for what Trump and Stephen Miller are now doing to immigrants.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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"The brief statement accurately describes Church teaching and lays out the crisis at hand, specifically mentioning profiling, vilification, and family separation. But it avoids any mention of President Donald Trump, the administration, or ICE."

As Katie Holler, a founder of the Dorothea Project, a group of Catholic women committed to highlighting Catholic social teaching, says,

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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Pope Leo's recent criticisms of #Trump anti- #immigration policies are emboldening #Catholic efforts to help #immigrants caught up in the admin's hardline crackdown, snr US Church leaders say.

After Leo called on Tues for "deep reflection" in the #US about the admin's treatment of #immigrants, several top bishops as well as the country's main network of Catholic nuns & its national charity federation told Reuters they would step up their work.

[ #PopeLeo is from #Chicago]
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-leos-critique-trump-emboldens-top-us-catholics-help-immigrants-2025-11-07/

"Pope Leo's comments strengthen the resolve of those of us in the United States who remain deeply committed to welcoming the stranger," said Kerry Alys Robinson, president & CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a national federation of 168 #Catholic #charity agencies.

#PopeLeo, the first #US pope, has been ramping up his disapproval of the #Trump admin's treatment of #immigrants.

#immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CivilRights #HumanRights #law #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion

Pope Leo's recent criticisms of #Trump anti- #immigration policies are emboldening #Catholic efforts to help #immigrants caught up in the admin's hardline crackdown, snr US Church leaders say.

After Leo called on Tues for "deep reflection" in the #US about the admin's treatment of #immigrants, several top bishops as well as the country's main network of Catholic nuns & its national charity federation told Reuters they would step up their work.

[ #PopeLeo is from #Chicago]
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-leos-critique-trump-emboldens-top-us-catholics-help-immigrants-2025-11-07/

"At one level, it’s entertaining to watch conservatives squirm over the Groyperism of their party — although they’ve been very slow in responding to what has been obvious for years.

'The distance between Fuentes and the mainstream Republican Party isn’t really that large,' Richard Hanania told the NYT…."

~ David Kurtz

#NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #antisemitism #Republicans #Trump #Groypers #Nazis #fascist #Catholic
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/heritage-foundation-implodes-over

See also Christopher Hale, "Groypers at the Gates: The Catholic Fascist Turn in the MAGA Right"

As a non-paying subscriber to Hale's Letters from Leo blog, I can't read the entire essay, unfortunately.

#NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #antisemitism #Republicans #Trump #Groypers #Nazis #fascist #Catholic
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/groypers-at-the-gates-the-catholic

“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

#religion#ChristianTaliban #bible #catholic

“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

#religion#ChristianTaliban #bible #catholic

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.

#Trump#Catholic #bishops
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/too-late/109855

"The Japanese have a saying that sums up the bishops’ lawsuits and statements: 'Squeezing one’s buttocks after a fart.'

Those who find themselves among the American bishops would be well-advised to wear a gas mask."

To which I say a hearty amen.

#Trump#Catholic #bishops
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"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."

#Trump#Catholic #bishops
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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."

#Trump#Catholic #bishops
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