Papal Adviser Has no Regrets Over Accusing Catholic Trump Supporters of ‘Hate’

LifeSite News ^ | 6/18/17 | Steve Kokx

[marshmallow]

August 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — One of the authors of a widely-criticized essay that accused conservative Catholics and Evangelicals in the U.S. of instigating an “ecumenism of hate” is doubling down on his claims.

Speaking with The Tablet earlier this week, Marcelo Figueroa said he was happy to see the “necessary” debate that resulted from an article he and papal confidant Fr. Antonio Spadaro S.J. published July 13 in La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit-run journal overseen by the Vatican.

In their essay, Figueroa and Spadaro decried what they called the “problematic fusion between … faith and politics” found in America.

They also accused former Trump adviser Steve Bannon of supporting “apocalyptic geopolitics” and railed against “xenophobic” voters for engaging in a fear-driven “holy war” motivated by a “nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state.”

Both Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor, and Spadaro, editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, are close personal friends of the Pope.

The hyperbolic article sent shockwaves throughout the Christian community in the United States, which has been fighting secularism and the culture of death for decades. Persons from multiple denominations rejected the essay’s characterizations. Reverend Johnnie Moore, an Evangelical adviser to President Trump, sent a letter to Rome asking for a meeting with the Pope in order to clarify any misunderstandings.

[Just mythoughts]

I do not know, around the time of the trip, wherein, President Trump visited with Francis, I read that Bannon was Catholic... Some claim once a Catholic always a Catholic... Bannon is world’s apart from the politics of Francis.

[RooRoobird20]

Well actually the Papal POS are partially right, and I am Catholic: I really hate the commie fraud known as the pope.

[jersey117]

And I pretty much have no regrets about breaking ties with the Catholic church under this pope.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Please forgive me for saying this: breaking with the Church over Pope Francis makes no sense.

I mean, Pope Francis (doctrinally) abandons the Church so you express your displeasure by... abandoning the Church?

It's like saying you don't like Americans who ditch America, so you'll show them! You'll ditch America!

[EDINVA]

I assume you didn’t read the article? Figueroa is a Presbyterian pastor. But keep up the anti-Catholic meme, it’s cool.

[jersey117]

Because as a 65 year-old old life long Catholic woman, it sickens me that this pope loves pro late term abortion supporter obama and has nothing but criticism for pro life Trump who is fighting harder to save Christian rights than any past president I can remember.

[Marchmain]

Figgy is an evangelical or presbyterian pastor, as suits whatever position he’s supporting. He was close friends with Bergoglio many years in Argentina, working on ecumenism. Seems the pope was pining for his friend, as Fig now lives full-time in an apartment in Casa Santa Marta.

[Mrs. Don-o]

So how does leaving the Church help that?

Doesn’t do much good, matching infidelity with infidelity.

[Mrs. Don-o]

First Judas betrays Him, then Peter denies Him -- not once, not twice, but three times -- then the rest of the Apostles blow out of town and head for the tall grass.

Sc*** em. I'm sick of it. I'm leavin' the church.

Yes?

[steve86]

“I mean, Pope Francis (doctrinally) abandons the Church so you express your displeasure by... abandoning the Church?”

Well, one can “abandon” the notional i.e. contemporary Church, but in the opposite direction, toward orthodoxy and tradition. This is not actually an abandonment, but rather an affirmation of the True and Enduring Real Church. Really nothing in common with the pope’s departure.

[mware]

I would rather be falsely accused, than accuse falsely.

[Salvation]

Things will change with a new pope. You can always come back to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

[Salvation]

And we don’t know if annulments were obtained.

[xrmusn]

Things will change with a new pope. You can always come back to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Sorry, ‘they’ said things would ‘change’ if we had an R presidency, House, Senate & Supreme Court.
Until they weed out the people that ALLOWED us to be put in this position NOTHING has changed.

BTW you RCC Apologists, don’t bother trying to chastise or convert me. Thanks.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I actually don't know the canonical status of Bannon's marriages.

I didn't his marriage history to cast some kind of aspersion on Steve Bannon. I like him a lot. I just don't know whether he's by his own self-identification a member of the Catholic faithful, or simply a partisan of the Judeo-Christian West (a related but separate thing.)