When Caesar starts barking at the bishops, you know the empire’s on its last leg.
This isn’t just a feud. It’s a full-blown exorcism of compassion from public life—disguised as patriotism.
When a government mocks clergy for protecting the vulnerable, it’s not defending the border. It’s crucifying Christ again, this time in a hoodie and without papers.
MAGA doesn’t have a Catholic problem. It has a Christ problem.
Catholics can’t deny that Opus Dei and historically large numbers of priest have never followed Christ’s teachings.
We can hope that Pope Leo at last will bring the light of day to the hypocrisies rampant within. There will be many Tom Homans raging at him if so! I’m here for it!!!
A perfect example of exactly WHO is following the AntiChrist. Satan doesn't even try to hide those he controls and are visible to everyone in plain site. Unfortunately it has become so acceptable the majority do not even recognize the evil.
Ah, Cid. Prophet of Spank and Sage of the “waa waa waa.”
You really brought out the classics—blaming compassion for society’s collapse, as if love caused the empire to rot instead of greed in a red tie.
You call people fleeing violence “criminals” and mock the vulnerable like it’s a spiritual gift. You confuse cruelty with clarity, and discipline with domination.
Newsflash: Jesus didn’t die to defend your right to be smug in the comment section. He died screaming forgiveness while empire nailed him down for being too soft on sinners.
The problem isn’t that we stopped spanking kids. It’s that too many grown men never healed from the belt and now think empathy is weakness.
You don’t sound righteous. You sound bitter that grace came for the people you were hoping God would skip.
Repent—not because you’re scared of hell, but because love is better.
Cid, thank you for your service as a footnote in the next edition of How Not To Argue Like Christ. Let's break this down with the precision of a monk sharpening a heretic’s bedtime story.
1. False Equivalence & Straw Men:
You conflate compassion with lawlessness, as if caring about asylum seekers means endorsing chaos. That’s like saying Jesus feeding the hungry was an attack on the Roman food supply chain. You invent a version of mercy that leads to disorder—when the truth is, mercy is what holds a society together when the rules fail the people.
2. Theological Schizophrenia:
You quote “Spare the rod, spoil the child” like it was delivered from Mount Sinai. Spoiler: it’s not a commandment. It’s a proverb. And proverbs are wisdom literature, not divine mandates for corporal punishment. The God you describe sounds less like the Father of Jesus and more like a temperamental stepdad with control issues.
3. Historical Amnesia:
You want to claim the moral high ground by invoking Israel’s exile while ignoring that the entire arc of Scripture is God’s restoration of the outcast. Jesus doesn’t carry a whip to the refugee camp. He kneels in the dust with the accused. He never said “sin no more” without first saving someone’s life from a mob.
4. Statistical Sleight of Hand:
“Mental health declined when spanking declined” is not proof of divine endorsement. Correlation is not causation. Try again without using 1950s parenting norms as if they’re divine revelation. Maybe mental health declined because people were taught to suppress emotion and call it obedience.
5. Classic Pharisee Cosplay:
You’ve got the look nailed: obsessed with punishment, quoting Scripture like a sword, and accusing everyone else of false compassion. But when you start labeling mercy as satanic, you’ve officially entered the theological uncanny valley. The Pharisees called Jesus demon-possessed for loving the wrong people too. Congrats—you’re in their company.
And let’s be real: You’re not defending holiness. You’re defending the right to be unbothered by human suffering.
You’re not calling people to repentance. You’re demanding they stay in their place so you can feel righteous.
You say "Jesus wasn't soft." True. He was ferocious in defending the ones people like you called undeserving.
If Jesus flipped tables, it wasn’t to protect the temple from intruders—it was to drive out the gatekeepers who thought they owned salvation.
Repent—not because we’re “radically individualistic” now, but because you’ve mistaken nostalgia for moral clarity and cruelty for discernment.
Cid, you’ve gone full Pharisee with a Wi-Fi connection.
You are not defending God—you’re weaponizing Scripture like it’s a bat in a debate club for the spiritually constipated. So let’s gently, prayerfully, and with a touch of incense-soaked side-eye… proceed.
1. “Jesus didn’t give away free things.”
Brother, the man fed five thousand people with a child’s lunch and refused to charge a copay for healing the blind. He didn’t send the hungry to file Roman paperwork. He broke the bread. Your theology turns the loaves and fishes into a means-testing nightmare with a border checkpoint.
Mercy isn't means-tested. It's multiplied.
2. “The Bible supports corporal punishment because Saul killed everyone.”
Quoting Saul’s genocidal rampage as a parenting tip is quite the choice. I pray no child near you owns a stuffed Amalekite.
Let’s be clear—God’s movement through Scripture is toward mercy, not toward reenacting Bronze Age bloodbaths as moral blueprints. Jesus told us to love our enemies, not reenact their extermination because it’s in the footnotes.
Also, Old Testament God sent prophets to correct empires. You quote Him like He’s your personal enforcer.
3. “These people are sinning.”
Oh, thank you, Supreme Judge of Asylum Applications. If seeking refuge is a sin, so was Joseph taking Mary and Jesus to Egypt. I don’t recall God sending the holy family back to Bethlehem because they didn’t fill out Form 1040-C.
And no—Jesus didn’t walk around “correcting every Roman atrocity,” but he also never stood in solidarity with the empire. He sided with the bleeding, the broken, the tax-burdened, and the outcast. Which, if you’re paying attention, includes the folks you call “invaders.”
4. “Corporal punishment leads to better mental health.”
No, it leads to silence. Obedience born from fear is not virtue—it’s trauma. What you call “discipline,” many survivors call “abuse with a Bible verse taped to it.”
Christianity isn’t about controlling behavior. It’s about transforming hearts. If your methods don’t echo the compassion of Christ, they are noise. Loud, angry, self-righteous noise.
5. “I never said I’m obsessed with punishment…”
Cid, my dude, you wrote three scrolls on it. You referenced Saul’s slaughter, praised spankings, justified deportation as divine, and turned asylum-seekers into robbers with bad manners. That’s not justice. That’s religious cosplay with a superiority complex.
You aren’t defending justice. You’re defending hierarchy—because it benefits you. You’ve wrapped barbed wire in Scripture and called it a “virtue.”
You don’t want Christ’s mercy. You want Caesar’s order—delivered with incense and robes so it feels holy.
But the Gospel isn’t here to make you comfortable. It’s here to crucify your certainty and resurrect your compassion.
You call my faith "impious" because it challenges your nostalgia. I call yours afraid—afraid of a world where the last might really be first, and your status, power, and punitive vision might finally be irrelevant.
Repent—not for quoting Scripture, but for using it to fence off the kingdom.
"Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you." They persecuted Him first and He warned they would persecute his followers. Yes, I know it's a very unpopular opinion, however I choose to pray for them anyway. Anything else is "adding fuel to the fire" and they're not listening to reason. They have an agenda and they're going to try to push it through. I'm asking the One I believe in to awaken the conscience of enough people in DC to slow down or stop the madness. One old lady's thoughts.
Anne, this is such a mature, wise, and Christian response: „however I choose to pray for them anyway. Anything else is "adding fuel to the fire" and they're not listening to reason.“
Social media too easily drives people into hostile camps. The Christian response helps bring down walls, and even if our opponents won’t listen to us, they might well listen to the Holy Spirit. Anything we can do hasten this (prayer) is the best path.
No I don’t like this statement. No one has told anyone not to pray. Prayer doesn’t add fuel to the fire. Loud disgusting statements from Trump and his Magots started the fire continue to add fuel to the fire and are destroying people.
Anne your absolute right and even more importantly we have to be the skin on Jesus and action for Him on this earth. Christianity is an action word. I will never trust our political system, it is and probably always has been a bureaucracy running the agenda of a few under the disguise of what is best for all. It never has been what is best for all, but we render unto Caesar what is Caesar and we become compassion love and a helping hand to those who need us. We are in the throws of the end times, now more than ever we have to have the full courage of our convictions. We don't know how much time there is but that doesn't matter. The harvest is great but the workers are few.
The Catholic 4th commandment is "Honor thy Father and Mother". I have no idea what you're referring to as the 4th one. Please read Matthew 2:13-24, and the Beatitudes.
Your writing is excellent! You are giving us a front row seat to an epic battle between good (Pope Leo) and evil (a long list there). You are documenting it in real time! Thank you so much for your work. Many of us are praying for good to prevail.
Thank God we are blessed with a Pope for these times. Thank you for bearing witness and keeping us informed. This is a major historical inflection point.
“Trump captured 54% of Catholic voters compared to 44% for Vice President Kamala Harris — an increase over 2020 that was notable in North Carolina, Florida and Texas, according to VoteCast.
In 2020, the Catholic electorate — one the biggest religious blocs in the nation — was almost evenly split, with 50% backing Trump and 49% favoring Biden, a practicing Catholic.”*
Not hiding, just befuddled and confused by the seemingly contradictory belief systems.
These Catholics need to be honest with themselves. Either you “walk in faith” and uphold the teachings of Christ, or you are MAGA, the antithesis of Christ. In my opinion, you can’t be both.
They’ve been doing it for centuries. Organized religion is consistently and constantly hijacked by the un-Christlike.
“These Catholics” are often MAGA and unable to be honest with themselves. Therein lies the problem with the cult of religion and the shame they use to try to control human behavior.
Breaking news alert from the NYT …. A federal judge JUST this day has issued a temporary restraining order ruling that immigration officers in Southern California are NOT allowed to “rely solely on someone’s race or speaking Spanish to stop and detain people.”
I am as certain as God made little green apples that this ruling will trigger an immediate appeal ending with SCOTUS having to make a decision which, if they rule in favor of immigration/ICE, will be in direct opposition to to the guidance coming directly from the spiritual leader for the majority of the members of this court. I can’t wait to see Coney Barrett and her fellow Catholic jurists tell the Pope and his subordinate clergy to take a hike and butt out of our government’s business. Of course they could all switch to being Christian Nationalist Evangelicals for which this ruling would not be a problem.
“Of course they could all switch to being Christian Nationalist Evangelicals for which this ruling would not be a problem”. By all appearances over this last decade, “they” (all of them) are Christian Dominionists and like all Dominionists are “Christian” in name ONLY.
It's a cult of many Christian denominations not just Opus dei which pretend they are Catholic. White Christian nationalism evangelicals is in many denominations, Baptist, Morman, Methodist, etc etc. Like every thing else, there's still good in some of these. I didn't realize how bad it was until a several months ago when I saw southern women deconstruct from Baptist churches. Their storys are heartbreaking. Than I learned of Opus dei through a wonderful lady Shannon Vavich. A Catholic lady helping & teaching of the dangers of Opus dei. Gareth Gore, investigative journalist wrote a book called Opus which goes into detail of this cult. Theres a documentary called bad faith on netflix thats about white Christian nationalism and how it intertwined with politics decades ago, starting during Reagan admin.The entire current administration is connected in some way. Then there's the tech broligarchs.
We just have to speak the truth and hopefully Pope Leo can help break this mess. I worry about Good Christian leaders speaking up. I'm glad they are but worry. We need to stand with them, like they stand with us.
Bishop Marriann recently joined speaking out. She's the brave Bishop that spoke truth during DT anaugeration service that went viral.
Give it up ass because a pope and his bishops will run rings around you and your hate and the horrendous crimes you and your goons have committed. Adios
I’ll bet this is only the beginning. Other bishops will follow suit (the pope has already spoken out) and other religious leaders will do similar things to show opposition if they haven’t already.
When Caesar starts barking at the bishops, you know the empire’s on its last leg.
This isn’t just a feud. It’s a full-blown exorcism of compassion from public life—disguised as patriotism.
When a government mocks clergy for protecting the vulnerable, it’s not defending the border. It’s crucifying Christ again, this time in a hoodie and without papers.
MAGA doesn’t have a Catholic problem. It has a Christ problem.
Beautifully said, Mark. Thank you for reading.
Opus DEI has a MAGA problem.
Catholics can’t deny that Opus Dei and historically large numbers of priest have never followed Christ’s teachings.
We can hope that Pope Leo at last will bring the light of day to the hypocrisies rampant within. There will be many Tom Homans raging at him if so! I’m here for it!!!
A perfect example of exactly WHO is following the AntiChrist. Satan doesn't even try to hide those he controls and are visible to everyone in plain site. Unfortunately it has become so acceptable the majority do not even recognize the evil.
I hope he gets excommunicated
Bingo! 🎯
Here’s another political movement that decided it was prudent to co-opt, but de-emphasize the Christ part of the Christianity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity
Ah, Cid. Prophet of Spank and Sage of the “waa waa waa.”
You really brought out the classics—blaming compassion for society’s collapse, as if love caused the empire to rot instead of greed in a red tie.
You call people fleeing violence “criminals” and mock the vulnerable like it’s a spiritual gift. You confuse cruelty with clarity, and discipline with domination.
Newsflash: Jesus didn’t die to defend your right to be smug in the comment section. He died screaming forgiveness while empire nailed him down for being too soft on sinners.
The problem isn’t that we stopped spanking kids. It’s that too many grown men never healed from the belt and now think empathy is weakness.
You don’t sound righteous. You sound bitter that grace came for the people you were hoping God would skip.
Repent—not because you’re scared of hell, but because love is better.
Cid, thank you for your service as a footnote in the next edition of How Not To Argue Like Christ. Let's break this down with the precision of a monk sharpening a heretic’s bedtime story.
1. False Equivalence & Straw Men:
You conflate compassion with lawlessness, as if caring about asylum seekers means endorsing chaos. That’s like saying Jesus feeding the hungry was an attack on the Roman food supply chain. You invent a version of mercy that leads to disorder—when the truth is, mercy is what holds a society together when the rules fail the people.
2. Theological Schizophrenia:
You quote “Spare the rod, spoil the child” like it was delivered from Mount Sinai. Spoiler: it’s not a commandment. It’s a proverb. And proverbs are wisdom literature, not divine mandates for corporal punishment. The God you describe sounds less like the Father of Jesus and more like a temperamental stepdad with control issues.
3. Historical Amnesia:
You want to claim the moral high ground by invoking Israel’s exile while ignoring that the entire arc of Scripture is God’s restoration of the outcast. Jesus doesn’t carry a whip to the refugee camp. He kneels in the dust with the accused. He never said “sin no more” without first saving someone’s life from a mob.
4. Statistical Sleight of Hand:
“Mental health declined when spanking declined” is not proof of divine endorsement. Correlation is not causation. Try again without using 1950s parenting norms as if they’re divine revelation. Maybe mental health declined because people were taught to suppress emotion and call it obedience.
5. Classic Pharisee Cosplay:
You’ve got the look nailed: obsessed with punishment, quoting Scripture like a sword, and accusing everyone else of false compassion. But when you start labeling mercy as satanic, you’ve officially entered the theological uncanny valley. The Pharisees called Jesus demon-possessed for loving the wrong people too. Congrats—you’re in their company.
And let’s be real: You’re not defending holiness. You’re defending the right to be unbothered by human suffering.
You’re not calling people to repentance. You’re demanding they stay in their place so you can feel righteous.
You say "Jesus wasn't soft." True. He was ferocious in defending the ones people like you called undeserving.
If Jesus flipped tables, it wasn’t to protect the temple from intruders—it was to drive out the gatekeepers who thought they owned salvation.
Repent—not because we’re “radically individualistic” now, but because you’ve mistaken nostalgia for moral clarity and cruelty for discernment.
Cid, you’ve gone full Pharisee with a Wi-Fi connection.
You are not defending God—you’re weaponizing Scripture like it’s a bat in a debate club for the spiritually constipated. So let’s gently, prayerfully, and with a touch of incense-soaked side-eye… proceed.
1. “Jesus didn’t give away free things.”
Brother, the man fed five thousand people with a child’s lunch and refused to charge a copay for healing the blind. He didn’t send the hungry to file Roman paperwork. He broke the bread. Your theology turns the loaves and fishes into a means-testing nightmare with a border checkpoint.
Mercy isn't means-tested. It's multiplied.
2. “The Bible supports corporal punishment because Saul killed everyone.”
Quoting Saul’s genocidal rampage as a parenting tip is quite the choice. I pray no child near you owns a stuffed Amalekite.
Let’s be clear—God’s movement through Scripture is toward mercy, not toward reenacting Bronze Age bloodbaths as moral blueprints. Jesus told us to love our enemies, not reenact their extermination because it’s in the footnotes.
Also, Old Testament God sent prophets to correct empires. You quote Him like He’s your personal enforcer.
3. “These people are sinning.”
Oh, thank you, Supreme Judge of Asylum Applications. If seeking refuge is a sin, so was Joseph taking Mary and Jesus to Egypt. I don’t recall God sending the holy family back to Bethlehem because they didn’t fill out Form 1040-C.
And no—Jesus didn’t walk around “correcting every Roman atrocity,” but he also never stood in solidarity with the empire. He sided with the bleeding, the broken, the tax-burdened, and the outcast. Which, if you’re paying attention, includes the folks you call “invaders.”
4. “Corporal punishment leads to better mental health.”
No, it leads to silence. Obedience born from fear is not virtue—it’s trauma. What you call “discipline,” many survivors call “abuse with a Bible verse taped to it.”
Christianity isn’t about controlling behavior. It’s about transforming hearts. If your methods don’t echo the compassion of Christ, they are noise. Loud, angry, self-righteous noise.
5. “I never said I’m obsessed with punishment…”
Cid, my dude, you wrote three scrolls on it. You referenced Saul’s slaughter, praised spankings, justified deportation as divine, and turned asylum-seekers into robbers with bad manners. That’s not justice. That’s religious cosplay with a superiority complex.
You aren’t defending justice. You’re defending hierarchy—because it benefits you. You’ve wrapped barbed wire in Scripture and called it a “virtue.”
You don’t want Christ’s mercy. You want Caesar’s order—delivered with incense and robes so it feels holy.
But the Gospel isn’t here to make you comfortable. It’s here to crucify your certainty and resurrect your compassion.
You call my faith "impious" because it challenges your nostalgia. I call yours afraid—afraid of a world where the last might really be first, and your status, power, and punitive vision might finally be irrelevant.
Repent—not for quoting Scripture, but for using it to fence off the kingdom.
"Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you." They persecuted Him first and He warned they would persecute his followers. Yes, I know it's a very unpopular opinion, however I choose to pray for them anyway. Anything else is "adding fuel to the fire" and they're not listening to reason. They have an agenda and they're going to try to push it through. I'm asking the One I believe in to awaken the conscience of enough people in DC to slow down or stop the madness. One old lady's thoughts.
You're absoutely right, Anne. Thank you for reading.
Anne, this is such a mature, wise, and Christian response: „however I choose to pray for them anyway. Anything else is "adding fuel to the fire" and they're not listening to reason.“
Social media too easily drives people into hostile camps. The Christian response helps bring down walls, and even if our opponents won’t listen to us, they might well listen to the Holy Spirit. Anything we can do hasten this (prayer) is the best path.
No I don’t like this statement. No one has told anyone not to pray. Prayer doesn’t add fuel to the fire. Loud disgusting statements from Trump and his Magots started the fire continue to add fuel to the fire and are destroying people.
Prayer is quiet and allows space for peace
Anne your absolute right and even more importantly we have to be the skin on Jesus and action for Him on this earth. Christianity is an action word. I will never trust our political system, it is and probably always has been a bureaucracy running the agenda of a few under the disguise of what is best for all. It never has been what is best for all, but we render unto Caesar what is Caesar and we become compassion love and a helping hand to those who need us. We are in the throws of the end times, now more than ever we have to have the full courage of our convictions. We don't know how much time there is but that doesn't matter. The harvest is great but the workers are few.
It also confuses the snot out of them!
The Catholic 4th commandment is "Honor thy Father and Mother". I have no idea what you're referring to as the 4th one. Please read Matthew 2:13-24, and the Beatitudes.
The thing this regime is forgetting is that while Pope Leo is an American, he has lived in Peru for decades.
And he was there during the Fujimoro regime.
It's not his first coup.
Your writing is excellent! You are giving us a front row seat to an epic battle between good (Pope Leo) and evil (a long list there). You are documenting it in real time! Thank you so much for your work. Many of us are praying for good to prevail.
Thank God we are blessed with a Pope for these times. Thank you for bearing witness and keeping us informed. This is a major historical inflection point.
“Beware the leaven …..of Herod.” Mark 8:15
This is a Herodian regime indeed. Thank you for reading, Teresa!
Homan is a vicious law enforcement goon, being operated by Stephen Miller.
How can you be MAGA and Catholic? They are utterly incompatible.
Ummm, where have you been hiding?
“Trump captured 54% of Catholic voters compared to 44% for Vice President Kamala Harris — an increase over 2020 that was notable in North Carolina, Florida and Texas, according to VoteCast.
In 2020, the Catholic electorate — one the biggest religious blocs in the nation — was almost evenly split, with 50% backing Trump and 49% favoring Biden, a practicing Catholic.”*
*https://www.ncronline.org/news/trump-boosted-support-among-catholic-voters
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stunning-report-exposes-project-2025-175201140.html
Not hiding, just befuddled and confused by the seemingly contradictory belief systems.
These Catholics need to be honest with themselves. Either you “walk in faith” and uphold the teachings of Christ, or you are MAGA, the antithesis of Christ. In my opinion, you can’t be both.
They’ve been doing it for centuries. Organized religion is consistently and constantly hijacked by the un-Christlike.
“These Catholics” are often MAGA and unable to be honest with themselves. Therein lies the problem with the cult of religion and the shame they use to try to control human behavior.
I also don’t believe that you can be Christian and be MAGA. I wrote about this on my substack. They are fundamentally incompatible.
Breaking news alert from the NYT …. A federal judge JUST this day has issued a temporary restraining order ruling that immigration officers in Southern California are NOT allowed to “rely solely on someone’s race or speaking Spanish to stop and detain people.”
I am as certain as God made little green apples that this ruling will trigger an immediate appeal ending with SCOTUS having to make a decision which, if they rule in favor of immigration/ICE, will be in direct opposition to to the guidance coming directly from the spiritual leader for the majority of the members of this court. I can’t wait to see Coney Barrett and her fellow Catholic jurists tell the Pope and his subordinate clergy to take a hike and butt out of our government’s business. Of course they could all switch to being Christian Nationalist Evangelicals for which this ruling would not be a problem.
“Of course they could all switch to being Christian Nationalist Evangelicals for which this ruling would not be a problem”. By all appearances over this last decade, “they” (all of them) are Christian Dominionists and like all Dominionists are “Christian” in name ONLY.
This is a sign that the Catholic Church in the United States has finally found its prophetic muscles
OH HELL NO!!! Holman must be removed and charged with CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!!!
It's a cult of many Christian denominations not just Opus dei which pretend they are Catholic. White Christian nationalism evangelicals is in many denominations, Baptist, Morman, Methodist, etc etc. Like every thing else, there's still good in some of these. I didn't realize how bad it was until a several months ago when I saw southern women deconstruct from Baptist churches. Their storys are heartbreaking. Than I learned of Opus dei through a wonderful lady Shannon Vavich. A Catholic lady helping & teaching of the dangers of Opus dei. Gareth Gore, investigative journalist wrote a book called Opus which goes into detail of this cult. Theres a documentary called bad faith on netflix thats about white Christian nationalism and how it intertwined with politics decades ago, starting during Reagan admin.The entire current administration is connected in some way. Then there's the tech broligarchs.
We just have to speak the truth and hopefully Pope Leo can help break this mess. I worry about Good Christian leaders speaking up. I'm glad they are but worry. We need to stand with them, like they stand with us.
Bishop Marriann recently joined speaking out. She's the brave Bishop that spoke truth during DT anaugeration service that went viral.
Be brave, stand up & hold on to each other ❤️🙏
He too will be judged. You are not following the teachings of Jesus Christ Homan
Give it up ass because a pope and his bishops will run rings around you and your hate and the horrendous crimes you and your goons have committed. Adios
Dear Pope Leo: Excommunicate these heathens. They have broken every commandment. Clear the temple. Thank you.
I’ll bet this is only the beginning. Other bishops will follow suit (the pope has already spoken out) and other religious leaders will do similar things to show opposition if they haven’t already.