"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...

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@WnknBlnkn_n_Nod Indeed. Pares cum paribus facillime congregantur.

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@shonin Aren't they, though?

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

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@darwinwoodka I agree.

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

MoiraEve

@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

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

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MoiraEve Absolutely. The exodus of Catholics from the Catholic church in the US is the most pronounced of all exoduses of churgoers in the US.