Totally agree after my 88 year old mom said she didnтАЩt wanna go to dinner with my sister if she was gonna push Elon Musk and Trump at her like she usually does, this is what my sister wrote after pushing some lie about bird flu sent by Democrats to China and covered it up with Covid.
Wow. OK, I will just keep praying for you because Mom, you said you want to get to heaven, I pray you will. God is merciful. But He will not make it easy if you continue to look the other way with all the evil in the world. She works for a Catholic organization. SheтАЩs a big part of the Colorado Republican Party. She is more over the top MAGA than IтАЩve ever known anybody. But to tell my mother, sheтАЩs not gonna go to heaven because she doesnтАЩt believe the same way as my sister the Catholic Church has lost me.
Politics has a hugely corrosive effect on spirituality. The reality is that the Christian faith as taught by Jesus Christ does not neatly align with either political party in American life, and we should be very suspicious of anyone who makes claims to the contrary.
I am as well. I served as a Eucharistic Minister, taught in the Religious Education program even after my children were grown and attended Mass regularly. COVID did me in, I realized that there were many people in my parish who could not care less about me or anyone else when they pitched fits about wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of infection. Watching the GOP leadership complain about an Episcopal Bishop preaching a sermon based on the Beatitudes while claiming to be "Christian" just highlights that the Christian Nationalist movement is not at all about Christianity. So to hear JD Vance say that the Catholic Church is just looking for money from the federal government is no surprise.
Cradle Catholic here -- super concerned and quite horrified by the MAGAfied members of my faith.
Totally agree after my 88 year old mom said she didnтАЩt wanna go to dinner with my sister if she was gonna push Elon Musk and Trump at her like she usually does, this is what my sister wrote after pushing some lie about bird flu sent by Democrats to China and covered it up with Covid.
Wow. OK, I will just keep praying for you because Mom, you said you want to get to heaven, I pray you will. God is merciful. But He will not make it easy if you continue to look the other way with all the evil in the world. She works for a Catholic organization. SheтАЩs a big part of the Colorado Republican Party. She is more over the top MAGA than IтАЩve ever known anybody. But to tell my mother, sheтАЩs not gonna go to heaven because she doesnтАЩt believe the same way as my sister the Catholic Church has lost me.
Same. It has been providential to attend a Jesuit parish where the focus has remained on Catholic social teachings writ large.
Politics has a hugely corrosive effect on spirituality. The reality is that the Christian faith as taught by Jesus Christ does not neatly align with either political party in American life, and we should be very suspicious of anyone who makes claims to the contrary.
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I am as well. I served as a Eucharistic Minister, taught in the Religious Education program even after my children were grown and attended Mass regularly. COVID did me in, I realized that there were many people in my parish who could not care less about me or anyone else when they pitched fits about wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of infection. Watching the GOP leadership complain about an Episcopal Bishop preaching a sermon based on the Beatitudes while claiming to be "Christian" just highlights that the Christian Nationalist movement is not at all about Christianity. So to hear JD Vance say that the Catholic Church is just looking for money from the federal government is no surprise.