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summer_in_TX

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48. Can we avoid getting diverted from the topic at hand?

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 01:02 AM

12 hrs ago

It's got to be tiresome to more than just me.

The sins of the Church are well known and many. But right now the topic is on war and just war, and the US's choice to attack Iran is very far from a just war. Also part of the topic at hand is the political pressure that this autocratic regime is trying to exert on the Pope to get him to fall in line, and their stupidity and boorishness too.

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BREAKING: The U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching... [View all] demmiblue 22 hrs ago OP

Great, I love it. Now let's talk about women in the/your church. efhmc 22 hrs ago #1

yeah, ok. can we focus for just a minute on what the Catholic Church is in the present getting right? MadameButterfly 18 hrs ago #33

My bet is that they will never address this issue because they firmly believe we are less than men. Unless we are needed efhmc 13 hrs ago #47

LEt's talk about how Southern Baptists azureblue 3 hrs ago #56

Let's stay on topic! Grins 17 hrs ago #40

Can we avoid getting diverted from the topic at hand? summer_in_TX 12 hrs ago #48

Let's talk about women in the oval office first. ck4829 5 hrs ago #55

This is crazy obamanut2012 22 hrs ago #2

It's such an unfamiliar feeling. I'm really impressed with them. Scrivener7 22 hrs ago #5

Pope Leo is a good guy MustLoveBeagles 20 hrs ago #10

For a Bears fan! BidenRocks 20 min ago #59

We're catholic too - just not with a capital C TommyT139 20 hrs ago #25

The Pope is basing his tenet on azureblue 3 hrs ago #57

They'll still vote for Trump who is evil personified. Irish_Dem 22 hrs ago #3

I know a lot of Catholics who vote D FakeNoose 21 hrs ago #7

All the Catholics I know are staunch dyed in the wool MAGAs. Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #20

Joe Biden is Catholic Bristlecone 18 hrs ago #37

Unfortunately I do not run in the same circles as Joe Biden and his pals. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #39

So is Martin Sheen xmas74 16 hrs ago #45

You need to get out more. Grins 16 hrs ago #41

There were a lot of Catholics where I used to live. Irish_Dem 16 hrs ago #43

My family is full of Democratic Catholics Sympthsical 7 hrs ago #50

I feel you............... Lovie777 6 hrs ago #52

That is also my experience mountain grammy 5 hrs ago #53

I recall some surveys I saw years ago . . . AverageOldGuy 20 hrs ago #21

The church may have forbade it radical noodle 2 hrs ago #58

I hope by "they" you're not speaking of Catholics whathehell 19 hrs ago #29

Poll from 2 years ago Wiz Imp 4 min ago #61

Not that I give a shit but Shady is malaise 22 hrs ago #4

Maybe that's the Couch Botherer's long game? VTderry 20 hrs ago #9

Love it malaise 20 hrs ago #16

Lol. But then again, B.See 18 hrs ago #35

American Catholics are not a monolithic group, whathehell 19 hrs ago #30

PRECISELY B.See 18 hrs ago #36

Let's not put this on Catholics MadameButterfly 18 hrs ago #34

Good to see the U.S. Bishops start to wake up. themaguffin 21 hrs ago #6

Some claim this is a Christian Nation. multigraincracker 20 hrs ago #8

Sane Christians still believe in the separation of Church and State TommyT139 19 hrs ago #26

Most of the signers of the Constitution multigraincracker 16 hrs ago #42

Let's not..Up until relatively recently whathehell 19 hrs ago #31

This of course must be explained to the sociopath in Chief. Passages 20 hrs ago #11

Accomplices to crime. Six "Catholicks" of note usonian 20 hrs ago #12

Two "Catholicks" of Greater note.. whathehell 18 hrs ago #38

Are the prediction markets taking any line on a Trump War with the Vatican? rurallib 20 hrs ago #13

JD seems to have bought in to the Nativist/Klanner Warpy 20 hrs ago #14

Good. I wish they had been a defender of Pope Francis Raven123 20 hrs ago #15

It's not just Trump's attack on the Pope AverageOldGuy 20 hrs ago #17

ICE arrests in churches TommyT139 19 hrs ago #27

I might not be a believer anymore LostOne4Ever 20 hrs ago #18

Trump doesn't engage in the concept of "just war". patphil 20 hrs ago #19

Well, trump is bigger than Jesus. C Moon 20 hrs ago #22

No, that was the Beatles... nt Another Jackalope 19 hrs ago #32

Excommunicate Jethro!! paleotn 20 hrs ago #23

Thank you, Bishops. spanone 20 hrs ago #24

Direct link to statement TommyT139 19 hrs ago #28

Journalist Mike Barnicle had an interesting thought today during his time... 3catwoman3 16 hrs ago #44

There might be some truth to that. Haggard Celine 10 hrs ago #49

Excommunicate the apostate! nt Xipe Totec 13 hrs ago #46

I did not have "pick a fight with Catholics" on my bingo card Sympthsical 6 hrs ago #51

K&R ck4829 5 hrs ago #54

The Pope is a theologian - has been his whole life WyLoochka 4 min ago #60