“Public records appear to show the most prominent member of Vance’s closest circle with connections to Orban’s Hungary is Chris Buskirk,” who co-founded the Rockbridge Network with Vance. Rockbridge is “the secretive fundraising group backed by billionaire Peter Thiel…” 4/5/26 … 1/
There’s a recurring argument on here that people must go ahead and support Gavin Newsom for president now because if you don’t JD Vance will become president. This is how you know these people have no idea what they’re talking about. Vance is a charisma vacuum not even MAGA like.
I saw Martin Luther and one of the things that I have to say is that I dislike fundamentally the historiography that centers the Catholic/Lutheran split as the cause of the 30 years war when its just the decentralized nature of authority in the HRE coming home to roost
Crucial from Robert Jones of PRRI: Trump's attacks on Pope = big problem for JD Vance.
"If you consider yourself a Catholic in good standing, how can you [get] rebuked by the head of the Catholic Church at the same time?"
On the pod, Robert is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2090...
yeah; as I said, Vance has absolutely no qualms about embracing anti catholicism. much as women in the gop are (generally) fine with misogyny and Black people (generally) are fine with racism. they already made the choice of partisan identity over other concerns.
Also casual fyi that we do NOT have to agree with what medieval & early modern Catholic theologians argued as constituting "just"
War *is* a matter of morality.
Famously (I would have thought) Thomas Aquinas included in his Summa Theologica (a rather important work of Catholic theology) what constituted a Just War.
www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm
Wisely, Meloni backs a popular pope over a flailing Trump too arrogant to see the folly in picking a fight with Leo of Chicago.
With Orban finally headed for the used politician's junkyard, Trump needs any friend he can get in Europe, but it's Italy, where nearly 80% of voters identify as Catholic.
one of my favourite things about Catholic saints is how often they're the patron saint of the thing that killed or crippled them (see also: Barbara being patron saint of towers, Appolonia being the patron saint of dentists)
Rep. Zinke: "I'm Catholic. So it hurts, because I can think of a lot of people that might be close to Jesus, and I don't think President Trump is one of them ... I think it was an errant pitch."
Catholic homophobes: "Your same sex attraction is a cross you are called to bear in celibacy."
Me: "Right, God made me this hot because he never wants me to get laid. Be serious."
I was Catholic. I no longer am but I still have respect for the church etc., and I choose to be offended by Trump's idiotic image as Doctor Jesus and I'm offended by Catholics who aren't offended by it.
Many Catholic voters, following teachings of their faith, voted Republican, claiming to be pro-life. However, pro-life means many things; like providing lifesaving healthcare to women w/failed pregnancies, avoiding wars, not killing immigrants/U.S. citizens. Republicans don’t deserve your vote!
Political commentator Marina Purkiss: “I am a person that was raised a Catholic. I did all the sacraments. I read the book, you know.
I lost my faith, but I still find that deeply, deeply offensive. The picture is blasphemous — that in itself is the breaking of a commandment”
Analysis that shows how obtuse the NYT is. Like, Trump faces a pope who is actually Catholic this time? Bizarre nonsense.
According to Catholic author and scholar Christopher Hale, Pope Leo’s anti-war public decrees are ruffling the White House’s faux-gold feathers.
WATCH: www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-puerile-pope-pr...
i think Christopher Dawson (the English Catholic historian) also wrote on this, although i'm not sure if he included Athens
~ The thing to remember is that the MAGAt republicans have been influenced by the "federalist" society. Who is strongly influenced by "Opus Dei." Case & point... shady vance! The author of the introduction to "project 25!" These people are catholic. But, are kept in the fold as a means of control!
Janis Ian from Mean Girls saying "Hey! That's only okay when I say it!"
Me, a person raised Catholic but is no longer practicing, watching people who've never been Catholic make criticisms about the Catholic Church.
Look I'm sensitive to the no-true-Scotsman of it all, but JD was a Reddit atheist three years ago, since then has rejected two separate Popes, and doesn't even turn up to Mass on Easter. It's not just "Real Christianity would be Woke," I wouldn't say JPII or Benedict wasn't Catholic, but come on.
