Father Coughlin Lives.....

[Laxman]

or maybe its Bishop Prang from Sinclair Lewis' dystopian novel It Can't Happen Here. Whichever, but I suppose Mussolini had his priests and Franco his, so its only fair for the Alt-Right and Donald Trump to have theirs. The practice of clerical fascism is alive and well here in the U.S. I left religion and the Catholic Church behind in my life a long time ago but I'm pretty sure these are not the teachings I recall.

Bashing liberals, Muslims and millennials: Has this pro-Trump priest gone too far?

Posting on Facebook and Twitter up to a dozen times a day, he has repeatedly railed against Muslims, calling moderate Islam "a myth" and voicing strong support for the president's travel ban, which temporarily barred immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries before a judge issued a stay last week.

West has assailed millennials as "snowflakes" who attend "cry-ins" and described liberals as "smug and arrogant" people who find solace in puppies and Play-Doh.

He has called Hillary Clinton an "evil witch" and former President Barack Obama a "bum," at one point sharing a post that challenged Obama's authenticity as an African-American because he wasn't raised by a poor single mother in the inner city.

Were West some random internet flamethrower, his posts might garner a shrug in an age of intense political division and social media rancor.

But West, 57, is a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, and some of his withering attacks, while popular with many of his 7,300 Facebook followers from around the country, run counter to the statements and philosophies of his own leader, Newark Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, and his ultimate boss, Pope Francis.

Read it here: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/bashing_liberals_muslims_and_millennials_has_this.html#incart_river_home

[gademocrat7]

1. He needs to be excommunicated.