On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Gustavo Arellano writes about the "sad irony" of the role Catholics are playing in the Trump administration and American society under Trump: as he notes, "2025 will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States."
On the one hand:
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In Trump's regime, Catholics are among the most powerful — and deported
Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.Gustavo Arellano (Los Angeles Times)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Members of my faith are in positions of power in this country like never before. Vice President JD Vance is a convert. A majority of the Supreme Court are practicing Catholics. Names of past Catholic diasporas like Kennedy, Bondi, Loeffler and Rubio dot Trump’s Cabinet."
But on the other hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals #JDVance #SupremeCourt #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #RFKJr #KarolineLeavitt
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"A study released earlier this year by a coalition of evangelical and Catholic groups found that 61% of immigrants at risk of deportation in this country identify as Catholic, while nearly one-fifth of U.S. Catholics 'would be impacted' by someone being deported. The latter figure is nearly three times the rate that evangelicals face and four times the rate of other Christian denominations."
As a result:
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"That’s the sad irony of seeing Catholicism have such a prominent role in Trump’s second term. The main defamers of Catholics in the United States have been Protestants since the days of the founding fathers. They cast successive waves of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Vietnamese — as evil, stupid immigrants beholden to Rome. They wrongly predicted each group would ruin the American way of life."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Now that Catholics are at the top, they’re the ones pushing policies that persecute the new generation of immigrants, Catholic and not. They mock the exhortations of church leaders to follow the Bible’s many commands to protect the stranger, the meek, the least and the poor by arguing that deporting the undocumented is somehow righteous."
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"So as Trump tries to woo Latino voters by wrapping himself in Our Lady of Guadalupe's mantel:
"That’s why, as we end a terrible year and Trump vows to escalate his cruel anti-immigrant campaign in the next one, Catholics and non-Catholics alike need to remember who Our Lady of Guadalupe is like never before. She’s more than just an iconic image; this dark-skinned María stands against everything Trump and his brand of Catholicism preaches."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"For the tenth week in a row, the pope used his global platform to call out the Trump administration — this time blasting the president’s plan to cut Europe out of Ukraine peace talks."
~ Christopher J. Hale
#Trump #PopeLeo #Europe #NSS #Ukraine
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Christopher Hale (@christopherjhale) on Threads
ThreadsWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Pope Leo XIV has insisted Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal and criticised what he said was the Trump administration’s effort to 'break apart' the US-European alliance. Leo spoke after meeting with Ukraine’s visiting president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy."
~ Warren Murray and Guardian staff
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