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Catholic Democrats
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Catholic voice in Democratic Party; Democratic voice in the Catholic community. Promoting Catholic Social Justice Tradition in Democratic party & public square
Oct 4, 2020 • 25 tweets • 11 min read
"The best way to dominate and gain control over people is to spread despair and discouragement, even under the guise of defending certain values."

Just digging into #FratelliTutti - but of course, this resonates.

vatican.va/content/france… "The organization of societies worldwide is still far from reflecting clearly that women possess same dignity & identical rights as men. We say one thing with words, but our decisions & reality tell another story."

Glad to see but this is true of the Church, too. #FratelliTutti
Oct 2, 2020 • 14 tweets • 11 min read
.@joshjdickson starting us off on tonight's #CatholicsforBiden Town Hall. @JoeBiden Image #Catholicsforbiden co-chair @fgorordo giving us the opening prayer - The Prayer of St. Francis @JoeBiden Image
Sep 18, 2020 • 34 tweets • 25 min read
Good to see our friend @JohnWMcCarthy calling us all to action on this #CatholicsforBiden call. @JoeBiden Image .@joshjdickson: "The moral choice could not be more clear." #CatholicsforBiden @JoeBiden Image
Sep 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Fr. James Altman (WI pastor), has produced a disturbing video w/RW pol. group, illegitimately smearing all Catholic Dems (2 by name) & even clergy & bishops (@WashArchbishop by name). In doing so he has violated Canon Law & ignored a 1993 Pope JPII directive against such actions. Image Fr. James Altman (a pastor) said you cannot be Catholic + a Democrat & that we don't know God, saying at same time (w/smirk) that he doesn't love people in Borneo. Fr. Altman, pls learn the Gospels or perhaps you'd be happier w/ a different job. Bp Callahan @DIOLaCrosse? @USCCB Image
Sep 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
From today's Dear Prudence column.

The answer to your question, LW, is "because baptism is a sacrament in the Catholic Church and Mass is the way we roll"?

Yes, it's rude for you to skip Mass, even if "Deb" isn't "really religious at all." Image We always end up rolling our eyes when people ask Catholicy questions at Dear Prudence.
Sep 3, 2020 • 27 tweets • 23 min read
Now watching the #CatholicsforBiden Kick off Call! #BidenHarris .@JohnWMcCarthy - a good Catholic Democrat (and longstanding supporter of @CatholicDems) - is now welcoming us. #BidenHarris #CatholicsforBiden
Sep 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
We're going to say one more thing about the #masen race because there are lots of non-MA people on here making lots of grand pronouncements.

Markey won with progressives, no doubt. But he also won in places that are commonly thought of liberal but progressive hotbeds... ...wealthy, highly-educated, and not particularly diverse. (In other words, communities like Newton, Brookline, the suburbs between Boston & Worcester). That's all fine, it was a good strategy for him.

But he was also uniquely qualified to succeed at that strategy. Why?
Sep 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Whatever the outcome of tonight's #masen race is, we're just glad we'll no longer have to see the garbage hot takes about the Kennedys on this site anymore. You can genuinely prefer Ed Markey without garbage Kennedy family hot takes! In fact, half of @CatholicDems HQ found reasons to vote for him that weren't "who do the Kennedys think they are?!" There are actual policy reasons to want Markey in the Senate.
Aug 20, 2020 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
Now watching...

#DNC2020 #DemConvention #DNCConvention Image Today's readings are available here: bible.usccb.org/bible/readings…
Aug 16, 2020 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Never considered before that #IndianaJonesandtheLastCrusade begins with Indiana Jones "finding" the Cross of Coronado and of course ends with him also finding the Holy Grail. It does seem like one of the Apostles would have kept the Holy Grail. That seems like the kind of memento you'd want to have but we guess they had other things on their mind. #IndianaJonesandtheLastCrusade
Aug 15, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
.@paramountnet is showing both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, so our Saturday night is set. Too bad that Spielberg didn't do a film in which Indiana Jones prevented the Nazis from discovering and using the true Cross as part of their world domination. That would have been quite the trilogy along with the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.
Aug 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Our fellow Americans, recognize that part of the reason they are being so open about what they are doing to the USPS is that they want you to believe that your vote won't be counted.

DO NOT BELIEVE THIS. They want you to believe that because it is another form of voter suppression. If enough people don't even try to vote, they have another avenue to "win."

It is up to us to not be discouraged, to find ways to cast our ballots.
Aug 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Okay, serious stuff is happening in the world but this episode of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has some of the ladies going to Mass at the Vatican and we are scared for all of the good people at the Vatican. #RHOBH "I am religious but more now spiritual." Once again, we remind you not to learn your Catholic doctrine from reality shows. #RHOBH
Jul 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Within the founding context of “forming a more perfect union,” @BarackObama described @repjohnlewis as a kind, gentle, and humble man and ”a battered prophet” on the “battlefield of justice.” #JohnLewis #GoodTrouble 1/7 He said #JohnLewis - as much as anyone – “brought us closer to our highest ideals” and that he is a “founding Father of that fuller, fairer America” that we have sought to attain throughout our history. #GoodTrouble 2/7
Jul 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
He got the evil part right, we guess. On a more serious note, the Catholic Church considers racism an intrinsic evil and the catechism forbids the enslavement of human beings. So, according to the Church, it's just an evil, not a necessary one.
Jul 22, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So there's a lot going around about this @politico "cancel culture" poll and it looks like the wording on the question was pretty broad. And also, the term "cancel culture" has become shorthand for "legitimate grievance about racist, sexist and/or homophobic words and actions" 1/ But we're also going to push back a bit on our liberal sisters & brothers who want to reject the poll outright because, whether we like it or not, "cancel culture" does mean something to some people. Much like the term "political correctness," we can argue against its misuse. 2/
Jul 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Really interesting data here and lines up with much of what we've seen around how Americans think about abortion - namely, that many view it as a moral issue and they have overlapping identities. In short, most Americans have a nuanced view.
ncronline.org/news/people/no… Worth noting that while the study was conducted by Notre Dame, the participants were not primarily Catholic - Protestant (41%), Catholic (21%), Jewish (4%), Other religious affiliation (7%), No religious connection (27%).
Jul 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You can say you aren't saying "hurt the churches," but that would be the result of taxing them.

And the "separation of church and state" when it comes to PPP is a canard - ALL religious institutions, regardless of creed, had access. State WASN'T putting its thumb on scale for any one denomination or faith tradition. State wasn't seeking to impose one religious tradition.

All state was doing was ensuring religious institutions, as employers, COULD PAY THEIR EMPLOYEES
Jul 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In our world, what they think is:

"The Catholic Church can just sell the Vatican to keep every parish in the U.S. open and if not, oh well, rich white parishioners should shoulder the responsibility for every single charitable thing that the Catholic Church does." What it would actually mean - parishes in poor and lower income communities would not be able to survive and Catholic Charities - one of the largest providers of social services in the country - would be greatly impacted.
Jul 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As noted in another thread, you are equating contraception with sin. You seem to be equating contraception only with sex outside of marriage, and that is often not what contraception is used for.

Secondly, the Church is more than just the Pope... ...it is also the clergy, theologians, and the laity, etc. There is a real question within the Church re the validity of a teaching that is thoroughly rejected by the majority of the people in the Church & the teaching around contraception has been, since almost the beginning.
Jul 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This Fourth of July, do make sure to read the Declaration of Independence: archives.gov/founding-docs/… But do also make sure to read Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?": pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4…