Posted on 08/02/2019 6:28:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two Catholic bishops joined almost a dozen leaders of various Christian groups in Baltimore denouncing tweets by President Donald Trump, who in late July called Maryland’s 7th Congressional District a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested” place where “no human being would want to live.”
Archbishop William E. Lori and Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore signed the letter dated July 29 addressed to the president, and also signed by bishops from the city’s Episcopal and Lutheran church, as well as Methodist, evangelical and Presbyterian leaders, among others.
“Recently, much to our dismay and profound sadness, you publicly slurred our beloved city of Baltimore in a tweet,” the letter said. “We will not dignify the slur by repeating it. It was horrible, demeaning and beneath the dignity of a political leader who should be encouraging us all to strive and work for a more civil, just and compassionate society.”
They invited the president to visit Baltimore and to see what faith groups are doing to help the city’s neighborhoods: Teaching children to read and study, reclaiming abandoned buildings for housing and other community needs, helping recent immigrants and refugees, feeding, clothing and housing the homeless, planting trees, growing gardens, and cleaning up streets.
“We are asking for your help - not tweets of denunciation,” they said in the letter.
The religious leaders say it’s easy to scapegoat others for the “long-standing and systemic problems” a city may face, but beauty can be found in cities where different races, languages, cultures, economic conditions come together, although they can also be “targets for those who cannot - or will not - see their beauty through the eyes of God and in their inhabitants.”
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Yet they had nothing to say about the billions of federal dollars that went down the rat hole of some Baltimore rats.
Well, Pope Benedict is still alive, isn’t he?
That would be GREAT.
Meanwhile, the heretic and traitor William Lori has been promoting church-issued ID cards for illegal immigrants.
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