Posted on 01/07/2021 7:54:09 PM PST by ebb tide
The archbishop of Washington, DC, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, issued a statement Wednesday suggesting that some of the blame for the violence in the nation’s Capitol falls on the shoulders of President Trump.
“The divisive tone that has recently so dominated our national conversations must change,” Cardinal Gregory said, in apparent reference to Trump. “Those who resort to inflammatory rhetoric must accept some responsibility for inciting the increasing violence in our nation.”
Cardinal Gregory, the first black American cardinal, has been an outspoken critic of Trump, accusing him of racism and divisiveness.
“I fear that recent public comments by our President and others and the responses they have generated, have deepened divisions and diminished our national life,” the archbishop declared in August 2019 after the president had sharply criticized Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) for his verbal attack on Homeland Security officers and the conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Our faith teaches us that respect for people of every race, religion, gender, ethnicity and background are requirements of fundamental human dignity and basic decency,” Gregory said, seeming to imply that Trump’s words were motivated by racism. “This include newcomers to our country, people who have differing political views and people who may be different from us.”
“We all need to reject racism, disrespect or brutality in speech and action,” he said, adding that “racism occurs when we ignore the fundamental truth that, because all humans share a common origin, they are all brothers and sisters, all equally made in the image of God.”
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Who gives a rip what some Cardinal thinks
Many people believe the pedophilia sheltering church bears all responsibility for the church cover-up.
Best the churches just stay quiet till they are cleaned out as well.
Accusations work both ways.
From the pedophile priests
The folks who perpetrated or enabled election fraud bear the entire responsibility.
Finding out that Bishop O’Brien, formerly of the military diocese, was one of the bad guys was like taking a roundhouse from Connor McGregor right in the temple.
Nikki Haley, George Bush, now Cardinal Gregory, everyone’s piling on Donald Trump. Bush even called it a terrorist attack, and Bush of all people knows terrorist attack.
Meanwhile a lot of people think the protest of Jan. 6 was far too peaceful; and should be repeated until the desired results appear.
The arch bishop is fulla excrement. Next?
We really need to start taxing the crap out 9f these religions since they are now violating their tax exemption by getting into politics!
Exactly.
Ship him off to Rome...
And the cardinal and the pope bear responsibility for all the priests who raped you boys, and kept doing it.
And are probably still doing it.
My grandparents all came from Italy. Having lived in the belly of the beast for uncounted generations, they were completely skeptical of ecclesiastical authority.
My parents - very devout Catholics - inherited that skepticism, and did their best to pass it to us kids. It worked with three of the four.
But I kind of rebelled, considering them overly liberal, cafeteria Catholics (they WERE devout, but nonetheless picked and chose from the range of practices typical to Catholics).
I generally held priests and bishops in high regard.
Now, I see why my forebears generally did not.
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