The American progressive Christians are mourning for the loss of Pope Francis, whom they considered one of theirs and an inspiration.
A piece in the New York Times on Thursday, highlighted several inclined, Catholics and non -Catholics alike, who saw him as a “powerful counterweight for a growing conservative Christian power.”
Bishop Sean W. Rowe, the president of the Episcopal Church, saw Pope Francis as a leader against the US right forces.
“Pope Francis contrasts with a brand of Christianity that has been power in the United States. It is mixed with nationalism and, according to Bishop Rowe, is” not only fundamental “but” also dangerous, “said the Times.
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Millions cry Pope Francis, who died on Monday. (Gustavo Garello/AP)
Now, with the missing Pope, new leaders must arise.
“We have to start stepping on and communicating this message so that they are attractive and convincing,” Rowe said. “Politics is certainly co -opting Christian language and Christian history. Now it is our recovering that.”
The piece also quotes the liberal Jesuit Fr. James Martin, who contrasts Pope Francis’s recent trip to Regina Coeli prison in Rome on Holy Thursday to meet with the inmates, with a photo of the representative Riley Moore, RW. Va., At the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador, where Kilmar Abrego García is located.
Garcia is an illegal immigrant and a MS-13 gang member who lived in Maryland before the Trump administration deported to the terrorist confinement center.
The New York Times piece says: “Mr. Moore, who is a Catholic, smiled at a photograph in front of a cell that contains several prisoners, giving two thumbs to the camera.”
Martin said: “The two photos could not be more different, the two different paths in Christianity. One says that we accompany people, regardless of who they are, and the other says that we turn their backs and make fun.”
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Bishop Sean W. Rowe, the president of the Episcopal Church, says: “Politics is certainly co -opting the Christian language and Christian history. Now it is ours to recover that.” (The Episcopal Church through AP)
Now, “their values feel particularly vulnerable” and the progressive Christian leaders highlighted by the New York Times are questioning what the future will be like.
“Whatever happens in the rest of my life or yours, some of us have to keep a burning candle,” Mariann Edgar Budde, or the episcopal diocese or Washington, told The Times.
Budde was the bishop who challenged Trump the day after his inauguration in a prayer service in the Washington National Cathedral, asking Trump, in “the name of our God … [transgender] Children in democratic, republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives. “
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde says: “Whatever happens in the rest of my life or yours, some of us have to keep a burning candle.” (Screen capture/Theview)
“We can’t let this go,” Budde said in the New York Times piece. “Someday the pendulum will go back.”
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