Alex Akselrod
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Do you know how fucking terrible a human has to be to make me root for that sack of shit Ben Shapiro? Pretty terrible.
" #Conservative commentator #CandaceOwens sharply criticized #BenShapiro in a recent #podcast episode, responding to his remarks at #TurningPointUSA’s #AmericaFest conference where he condemned her for spreading #conspiracytheories.
#Owens, in profane language, dismissed #Shapiro and referenced historical #antisemitic #tropes, including claims about the #Talmud and #Jewish involvement in the Atlantic #slavetrade. She held up a copy of “Der Talmudjude” (“The Talmud #Jew”), an 1871 book by #AugustRohling, a 19th-century #Catholic #priest whose work has been widely discredited as relying on mistranslations, selective quotations and fabrications to portray #Judaism as hostile toward non- #Jews."
Do you know how fucking terrible a human has to be to make me root for that sack of shit Ben Shapiro? Pretty terrible.
" #Conservative commentator #CandaceOwens sharply criticized #BenShapiro in a recent #podcast episode, responding to his remarks at #TurningPointUSA’s #AmericaFest conference where he condemned her for spreading #conspiracytheories.
#Owens, in profane language, dismissed #Shapiro and referenced historical #antisemitic #tropes, including claims about the #Talmud and #Jewish involvement in the Atlantic #slavetrade. She held up a copy of “Der Talmudjude” (“The Talmud #Jew”), an 1871 book by #AugustRohling, a 19th-century #Catholic #priest whose work has been widely discredited as relying on mistranslations, selective quotations and fabrications to portray #Judaism as hostile toward non- #Jews."
“43 women in Argentina say they were lured to Opus Dei schools as children and teenagers under promises of receiving an education. Instead, they say they were forced into working up to 12-hour days, cooking and cleaning for the elite male members…left without money, clothes or qualifications”
"…similar accounts from women in Mexico, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ireland, Peru and Chile: ‘All of us lived the same experiences, identical ones. That is no coincidence.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/women-say-tricked-servitude-opus-dei-to-meet-argentina #Catholic
bhaugen
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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bhaugen
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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That fact is a damning indictment of the (lack of) pastoral and moral leadership US Catholics have received from their bishops for several decades now.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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As political scientists Djupe and Walker have measured the attitudes of US Catholics towards immigrants and immigration. As they note,
"There has been very little attention paid to Catholic Christian nationalism (CN), which is primarily portrayed as a White evangelical worldview, despite the fact that multiple investigations have shown substantial CN among both lay and elite Catholics."
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Paul Djupe and Brooklyn Walker say that in stating clearly that one cannot claim to be a faithful follower of Jesus and also practice cruelty towards immigrants, the US Catholic bishops are not only addressing Trump and ICE. They are "also speaking to adherents of the Catholic Church who may not be on the same page as the Bishops and the Pope."
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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bhaugen
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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.
bhaugen
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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,
Lisa Melton
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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/