Charlie Kirk was an evangelical protestant. By definition, he hates Catholics who are otherwise known among Protestants as "Papists", just as much as he hates Jews, Blacks, Asians, and anyone who is not a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
So would you be surprised if Timothy Dolan, the former Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee and defender of pedophile priests, comes to defend the memory of Kirk? You should be surprised because Catholics and Protestants are ideological enemies.
But they lately have been finding common ground: They both are against abortion. While the Catholic Church has always asserted a male-dominated architecture of its hierarchy and rejected women's ascent into the prisesthood, marriage of priests and the inclusion of homosexuals, and continued assertion of patriarchy, the Protestants have generally liberated themselves from such antiquated and barbaric beliefs: They allowed priests to marry long long time ago, and recently they've been ordaining women, they've welcomed homosexuals, etc.
But the American Protestant world is such a dinosaur in that it rejects progress and evolution, and worse yet, it has allied itself politically with Trump, MAGA and white nationalist supremacist movements. MAGA leaders have frequently demanded that women stay at home and have more babies, while evangelical churches have backed Trump's racist and white nationalist policies. Instead of assisting the poor and the disenfranchised, as Jesus demands, the evangelicals have turned their religion into an arm of US imperialism and expansionism, launching major missionary work throughout the third world aiming at converting millions of people from Catholicism to Evangelical Protestantism, and thus bring these people under an American economic, political and military umbrella. Brazil is a noteworthy example, where the surge in evangelical conversions has enabled Jair Bolsonaro - a Trump copycat - to access power and try to subvert Brazilian democracy.
Now former Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee, like many Catholic leaders of his rank in the US and around the world, have spent much of the last half a century protecting thousands of pedophile priests who rape children behind the altar. Scandals have erupted in liberal countries: US, Canada, Australia, France etc... whereas in more restrictive societies pedophile Catholic priests have been protected by very conservative or autocratic political systems. An example is East Timor where people whose children were raped refused to disrobe the clergy who raped their children, which testifies to the abhorrent stanglehold that religion has on people in the Third World.
So I am not surprised that Timothy Dolan is now comparing Charlie Kirk, the racist mysogynistic white Christian nationalist Trumpian shill, who was assassinated last week in Utah, to a modern-day St. Paul. If anything, this is pure blasphemy that Pope Leo is urged to denounce. In a previous post, I facetioulsy sugested the possibility that, if Kirk was a Catholic, the Catholic Church should be eager to canonize him. In fact, this has happened so many times in the history of the Church where it canonized criminals who were perceived as heroes by the faithful.
There is no need to discuss the obvious Crusades during which monks became soldiers (the Templars and the Hospitalers) and killed thousands of people in the name of their religion and God.
But examples abound. Saint Elias was canonized because he killed hundreds of pagan Phoenicians who refused to convert to Christianity. All his portraits show him brandishing a sword and massacring innocent people. Saint Michael, who is a pre-Christian biblical figure and thus is not exclusive to the Christian religion, is according to an AI query a significant figure in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, recognized as a warrior of God and a protector against evil. He is often depicted as leading a heavenly army against Satan and is considered a guardian of the Church and the faithful. Warrior, leading armies, fighting Satan (i.e. non-Christians)...
In Lebanon, the Maronite Catholics too have a propensity to blend politics with religion, and thus elevate warlords and idealize them. One example is Bashir Gemayel, a former warlord who defended the Lebanese Christian minority during the Arab-Palestinian War against Lebanon between 1975 and 1982. He inherited his father Pierre's Phalange Party modeled along Francisco Franco's "Falange Española Tradicionalista" (Spanish Traditional Phalanx) in Spain. There is no doubt that without Bashir's excessive use of violence, Lebanon's Christians would have been dominated, and perhaps annihilated, by their Muslim-Arab enemies. But nowadays, nearly fifty years after he was assassinated (1982) by a terrorist of the Syrian Socialist National Party (SSNP; itself a fascist party founded the same year as the Nazi Party in Germany - see:
https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/06/dying-nazis-of-near-east.html),
the Maronites continue to worship Bashir and all indications suggest they may make a Saint out of him in the future. With time, the human brain deletes the negative and sublimates the positive, thus bleaching these warlords into saints.
I therefore am not surprised that former Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee makes a Saint-Paul comparison with Charlie Kirk because they were both "warriors" for the religion. Kirk did not wield a sword, but his words - just like Trump's - were laced with violent ideas about people who did not look like them or who did not agree with them.
At the very least, both Dolan and Kirk share one thing in common: The protection of pedophiles. 
Saint Elias slaughtering pagans
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former Milwaukee archbishop, calls slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk a 'modern-day St. Paul'
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former archbishop of Milwaukee, compared slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk to a "modern-day St. Paul" in a Sept. 19 appearance on Fox & Friends.
"He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero," Dolan said. "He's one I think that knew what Jesus meant when he said the truth will set you free."
During his roughly 12-minute appearance on the show, Dolan also said Kirk's death could inspire renewed faith in young people.
The former Milwaukee archbishop, known for his conservative views, said he learned who Kirk was after his death on Sept. 10, later writing an op-ed for The New York Post on Sept. 17 condemning "hatred and acrimony."
While some praised Dolan's remarks, the comments largely drew outrage from users on social media, with some calling on Pope Leo XIV to reconsider Dolan's position.
Others who posted on X were also critical of Dolan's leadership in the church, including his handling of sexually abusive clergy members.
A 2013 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report found Dolan sought Vatican approval in 2009 to move nearly $57 million in cemetery funds into a trust to help protect the Archdiocese of Milwaukee "from any legal claim or liability."
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Same thing with the Radical Right mouthpiece Fox News parroting the idea of a "miracle" in the killing of Charlie Kirk. The assassin's bullet did not go through Charlie's neck. It stayed there. Had it exited, it would have struck other people. Even as he was dying, the saintly Kirk was protecting people. I repeat, the Catholic Church should canonize Kirk. God seems to always be at work when it concerns Radical Right extremists:
Turning Point USA spokesman, Andrew Kolvet on Saturday said Charlie Kirk's surgeon called it an "absolute miracle" that the bullet that killed him didn’t exit his body because dozens of people were standing behind him when he was shot.
"I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie. I’m usually not interested in delving into most of this kind of online chatter, and I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know," Kolvet, the executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," wrote in a lengthy post on X.
Kolvet said he had just spoken with Kirk’s surgeon, who told him the bullet "'absolutely should have gone through, which is very very normal for a high powered, high velocity round. I’ve seen wounds from this caliber many times and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc.’"
He said when he told the doctor that dozens of staff, students and guests had been standing behind the Tpusa founder when he was shot, the surgeon replied, "It was an absolute miracle that someone else didn’t get killed."
The doctor added that Kirk’s "bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel. It should have just gone through and through. It likely would have killed those standing behind him too." The coroner found the bullet just behind Kirk’s skin, Kolvet said.
"Even in death, Charlie managed to save the lives of those around him," Kolvet added. "Remarkable. Miraculous."
Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while speaking to students at Utah Valley University in Orem.
His alleged assassin, 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson, is charged with murder and remains locked up in a Utah jail.
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