Although the IRS recently allowed religious organizations to address their faithful about electoral politics, the Church will not speak on specific candidates.
As a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what’s convenient for the political party.
You might want to have a talk with the clergy then. My mother was telling me about a traveling priest that came to lead mass recently and during his sermon had the audacity to blame our current divisiveness and problems on the “left.” Disgusting behavior if you ask me. The church has NO place in politics.
It happens but never fast enough, and man the church has its problems. We had one call the pope a wolf in sheep’s clothing for supporting “the jab”; people walked out.
A couple months later, he was removed without goodbyes or explanation, and is no longer a priest. I would like more swift and public justice for the ones causing public scandal.
As a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what’s convenient for the political party.
You might want to have a talk with the clergy then. My mother was telling me about a traveling priest that came to lead mass recently and during his sermon had the audacity to blame our current divisiveness and problems on the “left.” Disgusting behavior if you ask me. The church has NO place in politics.
It happens but never fast enough, and man the church has its problems. We had one call the pope a wolf in sheep’s clothing for supporting “the jab”; people walked out.
A couple months later, he was removed without goodbyes or explanation, and is no longer a priest. I would like more swift and public justice for the ones causing public scandal.