Hypocrisy in Holy Robes

Hypocrisy in Holy Robes

By Ben Jealous “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind?” Yes. That Jesus. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself?” Yes. That Jesus. The one who said, ‘On these two commandments hang ALL the law and the prophets?’ Yes. That Jesus. The one who said, “Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice”? Yes. That Jesus. The one who scolded us, “Leave vengeance unto the Lord”? Y…

Hypocrisy In Holy Robes

It’s been a month since Cardinal Timothy Dolan compared right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to Saint Paul, and I still can’t shake it. Maybe it lingers because of what else was happening that week in Chicagoland. The same week much of the city was still mourning Silverio Villegas González — an immigrant father from Michoacán who dropped his boys at school, was pulled over on the way to work, and was shot in the back by an ICE officer — the Cardinal…