A reader complains: “The Holy Father invites many voices but then he condemns those who speak to power what he does not want to hear. I suspect this papacy will not simply be known for those whom it invites to the table but for those spurned as well. Catholics in America were loved by Pope John Paul II, is this the case for Pope Francis? In any case, I hope the Holy Father knows that most faithful Catholics in the U.S. love him and respect his authority.”
Rubbish. Conservative American Francis-haters mistake “Not being treated as the center of the universe” and even “Not hating and rejecting all the people they hate and reject” for “persecution”. They live the life of Riley in the US and spend their time feeling sorry for themselves while this pope goes to the highways and byways to welcome the poor, crippled, blind, and lame the Greatest Catholics of All Time want to kick out of and drive away from the Church.
There are to be sure, persecuted Catholics on our soil. They are poor and brown and found at the border or in places like Springfield, Ohio, where good white Catholics like JD Vance single them out for lies and malice for the crime of being Catholic while Haitian. The people forever complaining the Holy Father is persecuting them, like this pack of self-pitying bigots at Crisis MAGAzine…
… are the persecutors of these Catholics, not the persecuted.
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