The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Th 2:9\u201312)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have never in my life seen Christians so eagerly committed to calling truth falsehood, black white, and lies truth as I am seeing now. \u00a0It takes my breath away. \u00a0And all because of the lust for earthly power.<\/p>\n
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Some reflection over at Commonweal on living in an extraordinary moment when many Catholics seriously talk as though Trump is somehow God\u2019s Anointed and the Holy Father is some sort of enemy of the Church. The spectacle of Church Militant telling the faithful that Trump is \u201cConstantine\u201d and gushing on about its own anointing by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[859,374],"class_list":["post-99435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life-in-the-banana-republic-of-trumps-amerikkka","tag-pope-francis"],"yoast_head":"\n
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