"Of all the American princes of the Church, outside of that ridiculous popinjay Raymond Burke, Dolan is among the most insufferable. He plays the jocular, backslapping Irishman while his rap sheet on burying the ongoing sexual-abuse scandal is one of t...

[mamiyaman@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Indeed. And the hierarchy yukking it up with him to boot.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mamiyaman Absolutely. Absolutely disgusting.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@JoCzechowska I'm going to keep my sights on the broader perspective as I see that 81% of white evangelicals and 60% of white mainline Protestants are poised to vote for Trump this election.

[tobecarey@mstdn.party]

@wdlindsy Don't look under the stain.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Every Catholic should be thoroughly ashamed of their church leadership and this "charity" organization. I think the only charity the Catholic cardinals serve is themselves.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Their religion has become simply an excuse for their racism. It's shameful.

[shonin@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy The Penguin and the Joker are easier to look at

[wnknblnkn_n_nod@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; of course he's going to like Cardinal Dolan.

[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy The anti-Catholicism rhetoric heard out of trump is disgusting.

[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy I COULD NOT believe that. How naive, that they thought trump would support ANY charity, let alone Catholic Charities? In Nov 2018, Trump was forced by court order to pay a total of $2 million in damages to eight charities, which also received equal portions of the trump foundation’s remaining $1.8 million. Why don’t people know this stuff???

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MoiraEve I think many of these folks are stuck in a mental world that believes the rich and powerful — rich and powerful men, above all — count more than anything. I'm very sure this is the mental world in which Dolan lives. It's the mental world in which a majority of the US Catholic bishops live. They are far more CEOs of a corporation, businessmen, than pastors. So they feel an affinity for Trump and show us, as they do so, how shallow their values have always been.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MoiraEve It is. And yet, six in 10 white Catholics are reporting that that they will pull the lever for Trump all over again when they vote.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@WnknBlnkn_n_Nod Indeed. Pares cum paribus facillime congregantur.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@shonin Aren't they, though?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@darwinwoodka I very much agree. And the research of Robert P. Jones and PRRI for quite a few years now provides us solid empirical proof of that shameful fact.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@darwinwoodka I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TobeCarey Oh, my. I feel I need eye bleach now.

[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy It’s a declining demographic, and so, they’re attracting the extremists. We see this in the political spectrum too, as you know.

[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy I’m so upset about how Catholicism has wrecked their brand. Truly.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MoiraEve Yes. The pastoral leadership of the US bishops for decades now couldn't have been more bankrupt, and the ugly revelations about the abuse situaton and its cover-up in the global church, handled so disgracefully from the very top levels of pastoral leadership on down, have, as you say, totally wrecked the Catholic brand.