Anonymous
04/15/2026 10:46
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. There's only one service. It can't exactly be both. The Vice President is Catholic for heaven's sake. No need to don your martyr outfit yet.
Vances loyalty is to the divine Trump, not to the Pope or Church.
Anonymous
04/14/2026 20:56
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Why can't they have both a minister and a priest and do a combined service?
Anonymous
04/06/2026 21:05
Subject: Re:Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Just go to HHS. RFK is a staunch Catholic and will be more than happy to have another Catholic on his staff.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 20:57
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The email saying there would be no Catholic Mass is uneducated given that Mass isn't celebrated on Good Friday.
There is no reason, other than bigotry, that a Stations of the Cross, which is common in both Catholic and Protestant churches.
Mass IS celebrated on Good Friday.
No. Good Friday is the only day of the year when there is no Mass. The liturgy that day uses “presanctified” elements from the day before.
+1
The thing that makes a mass a mass is the Consecration.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 20:55
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The email saying there would be no Catholic Mass is uneducated given that Mass isn't celebrated on Good Friday.
There is no reason, other than bigotry, that a Stations of the Cross, which is common in both Catholic and Protestant churches.
Mass IS celebrated on Good Friday.
No. I hope you are not Catholic. Hopefully you wouldn't be this ignorant of your own practice.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/no-communion-on-good-friday
That is an article explaining that while there may be a service where communion is available, it uses pre-sanctified hosts that were consecrated on Holy Thursday, because Mass (the service at which the bread and wine are consecrated) does not happen on Friday.
I think that the PP is being a little overly technical and hung up on terminology. But the bottom line is that Catholics do participate in “services” on Good Friday (and they take Communion), so there is no reason why they shouldn’t have been invited to participate in the services at the Pentagon.
1. They were plenty invited. It was just going to be a Protestant service.
2. Neither devout Protestants nor devout Catholics want a bland one-size-fits-all service. There are mutually exclusive elements to both services. Protestants and Catholics are NOT in communion with each other. In short: you can have a service that is one or the other but not both. Only irreligious people want a bland service that is a muddled "both". And why do they care? Why would they come?
In an 8 hour day they could have found time for more than one service. Or they could have planned something like a Stations of the Cross which both Protestants and Catholics use.
Or the chaplain’s office (which is where this belongs, not with the leadership) could have sent something out that didn’t reveal ignorance of Catholic practices.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 20:48
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The email saying there would be no Catholic Mass is uneducated given that Mass isn't celebrated on Good Friday.
There is no reason, other than bigotry, that a Stations of the Cross, which is common in both Catholic and Protestant churches.
Mass IS celebrated on Good Friday.
No. Good Friday is the only day of the year when there is no Mass. The liturgy that day uses “presanctified” elements from the day before.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 18:14
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. There's only one service. It can't exactly be both. The Vice President is Catholic for heaven's sake. No need to don your martyr outfit yet.
NP. I am a former Catholic, now a Lutheran, and I am incredibly critical of the Catholic Church, for both personal and more global reasons.
That being said? No, JD Vance is not Catholic. He is a performative Catholic because that works for him, for now, for political reasons, and so he can blame religion on his disgusting views by twisting religion and scripture to justify his trash worldview. So please, do not insult Catholics by saying he is one of them.
Not your call, bro. If a Catholic priest is handing him the Lord's body, guess what? He's Catholic. Just like Biden and Pelosi and on and on...
Don't let the Kiddie Fiddler Club off the hook. They made the call. Vance is in.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 18:10
Subject: Re:Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
I love the stage when they turn on each other.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 18:09
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. There's only one service. It can't exactly be both. The Vice President is Catholic for heaven's sake. No need to don your martyr outfit yet.
NP. I am a former Catholic, now a Lutheran, and I am incredibly critical of the Catholic Church, for both personal and more global reasons.
That being said? No, JD Vance is not Catholic. He is a performative Catholic because that works for him, for now, for political reasons, and so he can blame religion on his disgusting views by twisting religion and scripture to justify his trash worldview. So please, do not insult Catholics by saying he is one of them.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 18:07
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is the Pentagon having it t all?
Right?!?
The U.S. military has always had Christian religious services. Where do you think you live? How can you be surprised?
It has all services for all religions, like Eid al-Fitr.
Anonymous
04/06/2026 18:04
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is the Pentagon having it t all?
Right?!?
The U.S. military has always had Christian religious services. Where do you think you live? How can you be surprised?
Anonymous
04/06/2026 18:03
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The email saying there would be no Catholic Mass is uneducated given that Mass isn't celebrated on Good Friday.
There is no reason, other than bigotry, that a Stations of the Cross, which is common in both Catholic and Protestant churches.
Mass IS celebrated on Good Friday.
No. I hope you are not Catholic. Hopefully you wouldn't be this ignorant of your own practice.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/no-communion-on-good-friday
That is an article explaining that while there may be a service where communion is available, it uses pre-sanctified hosts that were consecrated on Holy Thursday, because Mass (the service at which the bread and wine are consecrated) does not happen on Friday.
I think that the PP is being a little overly technical and hung up on terminology. But the bottom line is that Catholics do participate in “services” on Good Friday (and they take Communion), so there is no reason why they shouldn’t have been invited to participate in the services at the Pentagon.
1. They were plenty invited. It was just going to be a Protestant service.
2. Neither devout Protestants nor devout Catholics want a bland one-size-fits-all service. There are mutually exclusive elements to both services. Protestants and Catholics are NOT in communion with each other. In short: you can have a service that is one or the other but not both. Only irreligious people want a bland service that is a muddled "both". And why do they care? Why would they come?
Anonymous
04/06/2026 17:55
Subject: Pentagon allows only Protestant, not Catholic, Good Friday service.
Anonymous wrote:Why is the Pentagon having it t all?
Right?!?