"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...

[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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.