i cannot say this enough:

[richboy50@woof.group]

@blogdiva I'm waiting for the Pope to tell American Catholics that their souls are in mortal danger if they don't rise up against this despot, but it probably won't happen.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@Richboy50 he already told the bishops to organize them

[unfmeghan@dmv.community]

@blogdiva I saw the b-word in his statement and immediately clutched my pearls! He doesn’t drop the b-word for just any old sin.

[bob_zim@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva @mausmalone Sure, but that suggests most BIPOC Catholics were already against 47. Thus, this statement probably won’t change any of 47’s supporters’ minds.

It’s still absolutely the right thing to do, especially given the RCC’s history with Nazis the first time around. Maybe it will help drive other, more-heavily-Catholic countries away from far-right politicians.

[lackthereof@beige.party]

@blogdiva @Richboy50
Catechism 2242 & 2243 have been coming up a lot recently in Catholic discussion groups

https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/section_two/chapter_two/article_4/v_the_authorities_in_civil_society.html

[a_phlaming_phoenix@mastodon.social]

@cynthia1960 @blogdiva When Cults Collide! But seriously, I can't wait to see which of my parents' child assaulting death cults wins their ideological civil war.

[lackthereof@beige.party]

@bob_zim @blogdiva

1) the Catholic community in the US has been way less supportive of 47 than evangelical protestants. According to Pew crosstabs, his approval rating is already underwater with US Catholics and has been for some time. Even when you strip it down to just WHITE Catholics, his approval rating is basically even, 52%. His religious base is overwhelmingly evangelical protestants.

2) Pope Leo has been on a tear of giving sainthood to various priests who were part of the resistance under Nazi occupation. Worth noting that the Nazis created their own parallel "official" version of the Catholic Church when they found the real RCC insufficiently fascist. Poland, as you likely know, is and was SUPER Catholic, but by the end of the war basically the entire Polish Catholic clergy was dead, about 2/3 killed in concentration camps and most of the remainder summarily executed.

I feel like the JD Vance and his ilk are trying to recreate the Nazi's controlled internal version of Catholicism. Worth noting that a not insignificant number of prominent MAGA self-proclaimed "Catholics" are actually excommunicated or appear to have never been confirmed in the first place.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@unfmeghan right?!?!? exactly my point.

[johnzajac@dice.camp]

@blogdiva @unfmeghan

We are like 5 mins to midnight on the H word

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@johnzajac @unfmeghan Cardinal Pizzaballa, the patriarch of Jerusalem, dropped the H-bomb a couple of weeks ago. he was in the short list for pope and also a Francis homie. you know this new posse of cardinals are not fucking around and am here for it (am still not going back to the fold, though).

[johnzajac@dice.camp]

@blogdiva @unfmeghan

I mean, I got kicked out of confirmation school for like, asking questions and my mom was like "we tried" ::

But also the RCC is so campy it's hard to let go completely when you're gay AF

But we are well past the point when they should've been flirting with the H word

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@lackthereof @bob_zim @blogdiva the "traditional Catholics" are attempting to have it both ways: they don't want to lose the protection that comes with being perceived as one with the general mass of Catholics, but they're privately schismatic. Surely their total number can't be that many, but such Catholics tend to be the ones who advertise themselves politically.

[lackthereof@beige.party]

@mxchara @bob_zim @blogdiva

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@lackthereof @bob_zim @blogdiva yep yep yep. those there sedevacantist boys ain't right

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva

The pope should officially excommunicate this devil…

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@blogdiva he's right tho

when I saw his words today I thought, that is exactly how I feel

my human dignity is affronted by this depraved horseshit, as is the dignity of all reasonable people

[thedutchchief@mstdn.social]

@xs4me2 He could do that with Vance. @blogdiva

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@TheDutchChief @blogdiva

After all, he was last seen with the previous pope…

Just saying.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

OMG this is amazing LMAO

@lackthereof @mxchara @bob_zim