Marjorie Taylor Greene: I Was Raised Catholic, but Wicked Bishops Have ‘Driven Me Away’ from the Church

LifeSite News ^ | 5/4/22 | Claire Chretien

[marshmallow]

‘Mrs. Greene's statement about leaving the Church is as enlightening as it is saddening,’ commented Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute.

(LifeSiteNews) – Following criticism of comments she made about the U.S. Catholic bishops, conservative firebrand U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed that she was raised Catholic but left the Church “with great sorrow” when she had kids because she had concerns about the left-wing hierarchy protecting abusive priests.

“With great sorrow, and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, I stopped attending Catholic Mass when I became a mother, because I realized that I could not trust the Church’s leadership to protect my children from pedophiles, and that they harbored monsters even in their own ranks,” the now-evangelical said in a lengthy statement.

The Georgia Republican was responding to the Catholic League’s Bill Donahue, who slammed her for suggesting in an interview with Church Militant’s Michael Voris that “Satan is controlling the Church.”

“The Church is not doing its job. And it’s not adhering to the teachings of Christ,” she added.

“It’s the Church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil,” Greene clarified on Twitter. “Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said ‘controlled by Satan,’ I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.”

“The Catholic Church must throw out these monsters instead of lecturing the people its own bishops have driven away,” she continued, blasting the U.S. Catholic bishops as “some of the worst in the world” and “scheming bureaucrats in miters.” It was the “bishops’ wickedness” that drove her out of the Church, Greene said, and her own refusal to “submit the spiritual and physical livelihood of my children to these monsters.”

Greene, who is sometimes referred to as “MTG” (à la “AOC”), went on to say what many faithful Catholics who.......

[SouthernClaire]

That’s really good, MHG! (And probably 100% true, to boot.)

[SouthernClaire]

“Sip no more the beverage of China;
‘Cause the stuff from Malaysia’s much finea.”

You gotta finish this one, Elsie. It’s got too much promise to leave it.

[Mark17]

Got anything to add?

[SouthernClaire]

I gotta stupid question. Is fish not considered meat?

[Mark17]

Ah, you are getting there. 😂👍

[SouthernClaire]

“We need to contend for the faith in the public sphere, both for our neighbors’ sake and our own.”

And:

Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

[Mark17]

I gotta stupid question. Is fish not considered meat?

Well, in my mind it is, so I don’t know where the Catholics are coming from, forbidding one meat 🥩 on Friday, substituting a different meat of fish 🐠 I don’t get it, but when you have cults, it doesn’t have to make sense. Make sense? 😆😂👍

[SouthernClaire]

“Make sense?”

To blind followers, I suppose. Where I come from (South), fish is meat. I don’t know why the RCC made the decision that no meat should be eaten on Friday. I wonder if the leaders weren’t chowing down on some fine steak while everyone else had fish sticks.

[SouthernClaire]

Ya know, chocolate should have been in the top ten of things denied. It is yum-yum, and suitors would gift it to their young ladies.

I guess Miss Ellen liked it too well herself.

[Mark17]

I wonder if the leaders weren’t chowing down on some fine steak while everyone else had fish sticks.

Good question. The only light I can shed on it, is that I heard a rumor, and I don’t know if it’s true or not. I heard, since many original Catholics, were fishermen, they decided to force the people to buy fish, to help the fishermen in their chosen trade. As I said, I don’t know if that’s true or not. It’s what I heard. 😀😆🤗😂🐠🥩

[SouthernClaire]

That would not have been a bad thing to do - in fact, it would have been a very nice thing to do - if it weren’t made a religious rule that goes against scripture and if people weren’t forced into it.

[Mark17]

That would not have been a bad thing to do - in fact, it would have been a very nice thing to do - if it weren’t made a religious rule that goes against scripture and if people weren’t forced into it.

Yes, it’s probably a good idea, to eat fish, less fat, but no pope should be FORCING on anyone.

[Mark17]

In fact, if I recall, one of the first things I did, when I left the Catholic Church, was to eat beef 🥩 on a Friday, just to spite them. 😃🤭

[Elsie]

And of course, she didn’t know that chocolate also has caffeine in it.

Joseph Smith said NOTHING about caffine, but the current thinking in SLC is biased against it.

https://josephsmithfoundation.org/a-new-look-at-hot-drinks-and-the-word-of-wisdom/

[Elsie]

meant to ping you to above

[Elsie]

. How about hold and keep to your faith and let God judge? Take a deep breath and live your own life.

Like you just did with this reply?

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2 Timothy 3:16-17
 16.  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
 17.  so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

 

Acts 18:11
    So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

 

Romans 15:4
 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

 

 

Romans 16:17
   I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

 

 

1 Corinthians 4:17
   For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.

 

 

2 Thessalonians 2:15
   So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

 

 

2 Thessalonians 3:6
  In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching  you received from us.

 

 

1 Timothy 1:3-4
 3.  As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer
 4.  nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith.

 

 

1 Timothy 4:6
   If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

 

 

1 Timothy 4:11
  Command and teach these things.

 

 

2 Timothy 1:13
  What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

 

 

 2 Timothy 2:15
  Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

 

Titus 1:11
   They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

 

 

Titus 2:1
  You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.

 

 

Titus 2:15
  These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

 

 

2 John 1:10
  If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.

[Elsie]

. I can’t imagine what her husband had to endure.

I wonder if they were allowed to (the M word) each other?

[Elsie]

It was late - we had an outdoor wedding at our house and the temp was 97°!

[Elsie]

I got brain freeze trying to get the last line, that I blanked 3&4.

[SouthernClaire]

Ours was around the same temp yesterday. Hot as the dickens. I hope the wedding went well.