As a trained theologian whose master's and doctoral degrees are from a Catholic theological program and who spent much of his teaching career working in Catholic institutions, I am especially outraged that this destruction of democracy has been undertaken by a right-wing Catholic cabal on the court with close ties to the theocratic Opus Dei cult.
#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
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How can any thinking and informed Catholic now do anything but laugh when Catholic theologians and pastoral leaders talk about how Catholic teaching upholds human rights, is positively disposed to democracy, respects religious freedom, advocates for the poor as the rich run roughshod over them?
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There are, as I know well, strong currents of all of that in the Catholic church and courageous people moved by their Catholic faith to defend human rights and democracy.
But those people have not had the upper hand in US Catholicism under the current bishops, many of them appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
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As a body, the US Catholic bishops worked feverishly to stack the court with the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling it, and are very happy with what they have gotten, especially after Roe v. Wade was knocked down. I refuse to take anything seriously that almost any Catholic bishop in the US says now about democracy or human rights.
#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
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"This isn’t justice. It’s a monarchy cloaked in law, where the courts no longer check power but serve as executioners for Trump’s political vengeance — and we’re all witnesses expected to cheer."
~ Michael Cohen
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