Catholic "MAGA" Church: Fast-Support for ICE. Slow-Defense of Raped Children

... The Catholic Church endorses ICE's violent and illegal detentions of people walking down the street, in contravention of its own Pope's statements. The Catholic Church is fast-acting when it wants to kiss ass to dictators and autocrats, but not when its priests were molesting and raping thousands of children behind the altar.

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, as well as the Archdiocese of Boston, are calling for the removal of an "ICE was here" sign that was placed at a Nativity scene at a Massachusetts church.

A Nativity scene at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, a suburb of Boston, shows an empty manger with a sign reading "ICE was here," along with contact information for a group that monitors immigration enforcement in Massachusetts.

Rev. Stephen Josoma, the pastor at St. Susanna, said the church's peace and justice group organizes a display annually. Josoma said that they, "try to see what would it be like if Christ was born into the context of the world today, what would he be facing?"


ICE director Todd Lyons, and the "ICE was here" sign that was placed at a Nativity scene outside a Ddeham, MA church.

Josoma calls the Nativity scene "religious art," and said it is intended to "evoke emotions in people." "It's supposed to affect people deeply, it's supposed to move people, it's supposed to change people," Josoma said. "So, if this evokes a strong reaction, it's maybe good to take a look at that."

Lyons added that Josoma "has become infamous for using his pulpit to advance his activist agenda and has now caught the attention of the Archdiocese of Boston, which has publicly condemned his most recent political stunt and recieved applause from ICE, " I applaud the Catholic Church and the Archdiocese for taking a stand against such a dangerous and extremist narrative", said Lyons.

The Archdiocese’s Secretary for Communications and Public Affairs, Terrence Donilon, said that the sign was "divisive political messaging," and called for its removal. "The people of God have the right to expect that, when they come to church, they will encounter genuine opportunities for prayer and Catholic worship — not divisive political messaging," he wrote. I suppose Jesus-Christ's rebellion against establishment Judaism and the Roman occupation of his time was NOT divisive, although Jesus himself said that he "came to bring division rather than peace, indicating that his message would create conflict even within families" (Luke 12:51 and Matthew 10:34). 

The statement further said that the church's bigoted norms "prohibit" using sacred objects for any other purpose than, "the devotion of God's people." "St. Susanna Parish neither requested nor received permission from the Archdiocese to depart from this canonical norm or to place a politically divisive display outside the church," wrote Donilon. "The display should be removed, and the manger restored to its proper sacred purpose". How nicely hypocritical of him.

Josoma has used controversial Nativity scenes in the past. He has used them to send messages about gun control, climate change, and also reportedly had Baby Jesus placed in a cage separated from his parents during Trump's first presidency in 2018.

Other churches across the country have also used Nativity scenes to criticize ICE and highlight immigration issues.

In Illinois, a church showed a manger scene that depicted baby Jesus' hands zip-tied together and gas masks on Joseph and Mary. The church, Lake Street Church of Evanston, said the scene "reimagines the nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing direct parallels between the Holy Family's refugee experience and contemporary immigration detention practices."

NO WONDER MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS ARE LEAVING THE DOUBLE-FACED CHURCH IN DROVES TO JOIN THE EVANGELICAL MAGA CRIMINALS. AT LEAST WITH CRIMINALS, YOU GET WHAT YOU SEE: DUMB AND UGLY. WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, YOU DON'T SEE WHAT YOU GET: UGLY WITH LIPSTICK.