With Francis Gone, The Hard Right Is Coming For The Vatican

Francis and His Critics

Today on T To the American and Catholic right wing, the Pope’s Christian humanism was all but heretical.

With Francis Gone, The Hard Right Is Coming For The Vatican

On Roman streets and the worldwide web, a half-joke was making the rounds yesterday: Catholic convert JD Vance, emissary of America’s empathy-challenged hard right, was the last visitor to Pope Francis before he died and somehow… did him in.Here at the Freakshow, we disregard conspiracy theories like these until shown hard proof. But it is a fact that a cabal of powerful right-wing American Catholics is not at all sorry to see Francis pass away …

Right Wingers Hated Pope Francis And Are Glad He's Dead

Pope Francis died yesterday morning at the age of 88. If what I'm reading in right-wing comments section is any indication, your right-wing neighbors and relatives are already celebrating the pope's death. Here are some of the top comments to Gateway Pundit's obituary, which says that Francis was "long criticized by conservatives for steering the Church into left-wing political activism rather than defending tradition and morality": He died not …

Scarborough: Hard-Right Inside the Church 'Hated' Pope Francis 'for Being Christ-like'

Monday, on the heels of the news of Pope Francis' passing, MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough launched a scathing attack on the so-called "hard-right" inside the Catholic Church.

The critics of Pope Francis represent a minority of the American Church but powerful. Ruth Graham, a reporter covering religion, faith and values for the New York Times, describes how her papacy galvanized a tide of conservative resistance in the hierarchy of the American church, in Washington and in the banks. The post How Pope Francis catalyzed the Catholic right in the United States appeared first on Diario La República.