[Craic] Editorial: NCR Editorial - Catholics need to confess their complicity in the failed coup

[Greg Gillis]

Right on David, thank you for this!  There can be no credibility much less
forgiveness until the sin is recognized and atoned for an abysmal lack of
leadership in a country that professes pro-life values but spends over half
its tax dollars on a military empire that wreaks violence worldwide on
brown and black skinned peoples.  800 plus military bases worldwide, a
military that exudes greenhouses gases at a terrifying level.  A military
that ensures the free flow of fossil fuels to the west as well as every
other consumer good imaginable stolen from the natural resources of other
peoples!  A nation that uses a massive nuclear arsenal to keep any form of
resistance to a bare minimum.  Youth brainwashed as stormtroopers of the
empire!  A nation that domestically provides every law enforcement agency
in the country with more firepower than most developing nations armies,
which in a moment's notice can be turned on black and brown skinned people
who peacefully demand justice in the face of relentless police violence
performed with impunity!  I can go on but I am preaching to the choir!

Forgive my rant!

Peace

Greg


On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:25 PM David Walsh via craic <
craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> *Good to see NCR calling out right-wing Catholics *
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> *NCR Editorial: Catholics need to confess their complicity in the failed
> coup*
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> *Editorial: Catholics need to confess their complicity in the failed coup
> | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)
> <https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/editorial-catholics-need-confess-their-complicity-failed-coup?fbclid=IwAR2y3EK19qUpRH9Ai1Zn3mZDaXkK2gZcMgPep38LlQ7Sy99342edordJsxo>*
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> David
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> David
> david at dwalsh.ca
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> And what about the everyday Catholics — some 50% of them — who voted for
> Trump this year, after four years of incompetence, racist dog whistles and
> assaults on democratic norms? Not all were at the "protest" in Washington,
> but many have supported organizations that fanned the flames. Too many
> Catholic voters were content to cozy up to Trump in exchange for tax
> breaks, or Supreme Court judges, or subsidies for Catholic schools.
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> Many of these folks have been shaped by right-wing Catholic media, whether
> rogue priests on Twitter, websites such as Church Militant or LifeSiteNews,
> or the Catholic media conglomerate the Eternal Word Television Network
> <https://www.ncronline.org/news/media/rise-ewtn-piety-partisanship> (EWTN).
> The latter, with its veneer of respectability, has misinformed millions of
> Catholics worldwide with its biased news and opinion shows. EWTN anchor
> Raymond Arroyo, who moonlights on Laura Ingraham's show "The Ingraham
> Angle" on Fox News, where he is freed from the EWTN's alleged
> respectability, deserves singling out.
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> It must stop. If the church is to live up to the teachings of its founder,
> and if it is ever to be a witness to the culture, it cannot, must not, be a
> part of what happened at our nation's Capitol. There must be no white
> Catholic nationalism. And a pro-life movement that embraces white
> nationalism is not a true pro-life movement. Period.
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