Summary
The Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis condemned the Trump administration’s decision to halt USAID funding, warning it will cause millions of deaths and widespread poverty.
Cardinal Michael Czerny criticized the move as “reckless” and urged the U.S. to uphold Christian values of aid and compassion.
The cuts impact Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian programs, jeopardizing decades of progress.
Czerny also denounced Trump’s immigration crackdown. U.S. Catholic bishops issued a rare rebuke, calling Trump’s policies on aid, immigration, and justice harmful to the vulnerable.
Yes…but no. American Catholic fundamentalism has little to do with the actual Catholic church. They’re basically a renegade sect of the church who believes the new Pope is woke because he’s brown.
They’ve steadily infiltrated the highest offices in the nation, but especially the judicial branch. They’re essentially high brow versions of southern evangelicals, with more cash and an ahistorical chip on their shoulder in regards to America’s relations to prejudice against traditional Catholics in the 19th and early 20th century.
Bergoglio brown?
He is considered woke because even in the church there are factions and he belongs to the one which is slightly more open on certain topics, or at least embraced (initially) a more populistic façade that pretended the church was modernizing.
In fact criticism against him is not an exclusive of US fundamentalists.
I don’t know his actual ethnicity, but to a lot of European Catholics anyone from South America is brown at least by association. It was kinda a big deal that he was the first Pope from the southern hemisphere.
I didn’t claim it was?