It’s a lot of stuff people talk about all the time.
The headline to this anti Catholic vanity, which I am now surprised was allowed to go through, was did the Church Hierarchy (Not the Church, the bishops the American Church) influence Roberts’ decision?
My question to all of the speculators who in their professed confusion find license to accuse the Catholic Church, merely because they doe this and then they do that, of actively lobbying the Supreme Court and it is a serious accusation.
If someone of this group of amateur sleuths could cite just one instance of the Church Hierarchy actively influencing the government then the conversation would end.
But it is not possible to do so.
It soulds like a 1960 “I’m not voting for a Papist” anti catholic Kennedy thing.
I am a Roman Catholic who believes that the Catholic Church (including the Eastern Rites) is the One True Church, and I have no problem with people questioning the role of the American Church hierarchy in this disaster from beginning to end because they themselves have consistently sought to dilute the anti-abortion message from Rome every election cycle with their “other issues” distraction.
Given that background, I see nothing “anti-Catholic” in the original vanity post; there is no reason to quash legitimate debate, and you have an ample forum to refute any points to disagree with.
For starters, I AM a “papist.”
The Catholic bishops have always been and always will be politically and politically active. To say that they would try to influence the outcome of a political decision is not a calumny against the Church. I am surprised that many here are shocked at the thought they may have spoken to a son of the Church about a matter they believe has moral implications.
That said, I am not saying that I have evidence that that did influence Roberts.