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\u2026by Amoris Laetetia<\/em>.<\/a> \u00a0What\u2019s impressive is that the same people confused by this are also unclear what the words \u201cWe\u2019re the platform for the alt-right\u201d<\/a> could possibly mean when spoken by Trump\u2019s new Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon. They are likewise endlessly puzzled by the super-fine nuances of the Alt Right\u2019s self-definition \u201cdedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States.\u201d It\u2019s all sooooooooo confusing\u2013like the definition of \u201ctorture\u201d they struggled with for ten years while the people they were defending were torturing and murdering prisoners.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the common denominator? \u00a0Not Pope Francis. \u00a0On the contrary, it appears to be a reading comprehension problem, not a lack of clarity problem, on the part of Trump adulating, Francis-loathing conservatives. \u00a0You know, the ones who take seriously Bannon\u2019s inflammatory anti-Catholic garbage about Marxists running the Vatican<\/a>\u00a0and the Church only caring about refugees for their money<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No doubt those Catholics who, just a few months ago were saying Trump was the \u201clesser evil\u201d will, now that Hillary is out of the way, now focus their attention on the embrace of an anti-Catholic, alt Right honcho by Trump. \u00a0Surely, they will not, now that the threat of Hillary is past, continue to excuse and defend this egregious bigotry.<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n

Certainly they don\u2019t support Trump and prefer him to the teaching of the Holy Father?<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"