<div dir="ltr">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!<div><br></div><div>Forgive my rant!</div><div><br></div><div>Peace</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:25 PM David Walsh via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">Good to see NCR calling out right-wing Catholics
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">NCR Editorial: Catholics need to confess their complicity in the failed coup<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/editorial-catholics-need-confess-their-complicity-failed-coup?fbclid=IwAR2y3EK19qUpRH9Ai1Zn3mZDaXkK2gZcMgPep38LlQ7Sy99342edordJsxo" target="_blank">Editorial: Catholics need
to confess their complicity in the failed coup | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">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 <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/media/rise-ewtn-piety-partisanship" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(4,109,177)">the
Eternal Word Television Network</span></a> (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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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