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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]

Jesus would not want you to be judging others in this way. It is His responsibility to determine whether someone has turned their back on His teachings. [/quote]

There is plenty of biblical support for holding followers of Jesus accountable. Weird that a self proclaimed “true” Catholic doesn’t know this. It doesn’t take a biblical scholar to realize Trump is the antithesis of all of Christianity. But here you go.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Paul in 1 Corinthians 5:9-12 says this:

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[a] but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

Paul clearly is stating that we don’t judge outsiders but as for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ we do indeed judge them – or more appropriately, hold them accountable to the teachings of Christ.

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