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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a great disparity between those of us who are Catholic (and attend mass every Sunday and even weekday mass) and those who identify as Catholic but are Easter and Christmas mass attendees, if that.  [i]Only the first group are truly Catholic as we follow the tenets of the catechism. [/i] So stating that a certain percent of Catholics support or voted for Biden is not accurate.  The majority of devout Catholics will support the candidate who follows church teachings on abortion and traditional marriage (in this case, Trump/Vance).  [/quote]
 No, you don’t speak for all Catholics  (nor do you get to decide who is a true Catholic).  Maybe you should reread Luke 18:9–14. Jesus warned about people like you. It’s actually the perfect metaphor for Trump Catholics. Washington DC area Trump Catholics do not speak for all Catholics. A lot of Catholics here (with exception of churches like Holy Trinity) believe that it’s okay to cage children, to turn immigrants away, to have affairs with P0rN stars and then lie about it, to neglect our poor and elderly, to use the Bible as a prop holding it upside down while gassing peaceful protestors, and selling Bibles as a blasphemous political prop like they were a cheap Trump steak or NFT of Trump dressed like Superman. We are from the Northeast where Catholics still believe in Jesus and his teachings to care for others. So do the Jesuits and the Pope himself. It’s sad that so many area churches have become so political and have turned their back on the teachings of Jesus. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

+2, except I’m from the West.  Cradle Catholic, former liturgical minister, former CCD teacher, still volunteer with one of the sodality sponsored groups.  Went to mass  pretty much every week until the pandemic, and grew up with priests in my house pretty regularly, start each car trip with the rosary, etc.  PDC (pretty darn Catholic).  I’ve never had an abortion but for reasons that have be one become apparent in places like Florida and Texas, I don’t think the government should be in charge of healthcare decisions.  It should be between a woman, her doctor, and her  God.  I wouldn’t want some other religion telling me I can’t get a blood transfusion.  What I do think is essential to Catholicism, as I learned it, is to treat others with kindness, charity and love.  Nothing about Trump or his policies does this.  It’s dismaying to me that so many Catholics are willing to throw out the entirety of Jesus’s teachings about helping others solely in order to ban abortion.  Maybe they should focus more on creating a church that others would want to join, so that people agree with their moral stance, and less on threatening doctors licenses or liberty.  [/quote]

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