Posted on 01/10/2021 5:59:03 PM PST by ebb tide
Last year, as riots raged across the country, America’s liberal bishops hesitated to condemn the mob. Far from fretting over the inflammatory rhetoric of Black Lives Matter, some of the bishops repeated it. Bishop Mark Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, joined in the protests and held up a “Black Lives Matter” sign. Seitz told the press that after his participation in the protests he received a phone call from the pope. “He said he wanted to congratulate me,” Seitz said.
Jesuit magazine America condemned Catholics for not joining Seitz: “[M]any Catholics seem too timid to listen and collaborate with new movements, such as Black Lives Matter, that are leading today’s charge for justice.”
Seitz even questioned the seriousness of the mob’s violence. “My brother bishop in Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, suggested we should be less quick to judge the proportionality of ‘their’ response and start talking about the proportionality of ‘ours.’ We also need to remember what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, that ‘a riot is the language of the unheard,’” he said.
No such musings from the bishops followed last week’s violence at the U.S. Capitol building. Their view of inflammatory rhetoric suddenly turned stern. “We must be clear in identifying this moment as the logical trajectory of the last four years of President Trump’s leadership of our country and stare in the face how we have stood by without giving greater witness to the terrible danger that leadership rooted in division brings to a democratic society,” said Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego to the National Catholic Reporter. “Today we see the face of insurrection in the United States in a way that we have never witnessed in the last hundred years.”
This is the same bishop who pooh-poohed the gravity of Biden’s support for abortion...
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I didn’t leave the Catholic Church.
Their Satanic leftism, corruption, homosexuality, and pedophilia drove me away.
The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ, and in fact, he made St. Peter its head. It’s literally in scripture. Specifically: Matthew 16:18
So don’t denounce the Catholic Church as being Satanic. Now, that said, there ARE bad actors unfortunately hijacking the church right now, but the church itself is not satanic. In fact, Michael Voris and other traditional catholics if anything are siding with Donald Trump over Biden.
Local priest read the Atlanta bishop’s/CCB rant as well today. Only one word (”months”) indicated there was ANY rioting or violence at all ANYWHERE in the US until the Jan 6 confrontation on Trump’s fraud-filled loss.
The Jesuits have leaned toward the commies, so this is no surprise
https://www.westernjournal.com/priest-prepares-congregation-upcoming-biden-years-dark-homily-folks/ You can read but you must scroll down to listen!!!!!
I don’t think he ever was being considered to deliver the invocation at the inauguration!!!
Me too. A long time ago.
Ego quogue.
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