Vatican "shot across the bow" for conservative US Catholics

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www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-vatican-shot-across-the-bow-for-hard-line-us-catholics/ar-AApkaR9?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican’s good graces.

The authors, writing in a Vatican-vetted journal, singled out Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, as a “supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics” that has stymied action against climate change and exploited fears of migrants and Muslims with calls for “walls and purifying deportations.”

The article warns that conservative American Catholics have strayed dangerously into the deepening political polarization in the United States. The writers even declare that the worldview of American evangelical and hard-line Catholics, which is based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, is “not too far apart’’ from jihadists.

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That quote is my everything: The writers even declare that the worldview of American evangelical and hard-line Catholics, which is based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, is “not too far apart’’ from jihadists.

It's so true and they can't see how true it is.

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Sound familiar?

Some progressive Catholics have even begun expressing a previously tacit resentment of the hard-right zeal of evangelical, Calvinist and Protestant converts to Catholicism, among them Newt Gingrich, the husband of Callista Gingrich, the new American ambassador to the Holy See.
“I am so tired of converts telling us that the pope is not Catholic,” Michael Sean Winters wrote last week in the newspaper National Catholic Reporter.

(I just had to throw that in there because "I am so tired of converts telling us that Hillary supporters/centrists/people who don't support St. Bernard are not Democrats." And yes, my mother-in-law and her sister are converts. But they were raised **Methodist** so they're even more "Catholic convert" than a lot of evangelicals.)


This is so much about what it's all about, separation of church and state. Why I put in my comments to Rep. Lujan a comment about Tim Kaine, the Kennedys, et al. and while they are Catholic and don't personally believe in abortion, they are first and foremost Democrats and believe that their view is not the party view or the world view and yes, the party needs litmus tests.

The main point of the article, he said, was the pope’s argument that religion in the service of politics or power is ideology, and that the manipulation of anxiety for political ends risks rendering the church a “sect of the pure.”