Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics
The Pentagon has invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics.
“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email sent by Air Force leadership, a copy of which was shared by an employee.
“I guess so the Catholics know their kind ain’t welcome,” said this employee, who requested anonymity to speak about internal communications. “It’s so ridiculous.”
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate religious service for Catholic employees.
“The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement.
The Pentagon Memorial Chapel is that employees can use for prayer and reflection, and that is used for religious services.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a far-right evangelical Christian, has tried to infuse his religious views into Pentagon activities.
Last May, he brought his Tennessee pastor and controversial spiritual advisor Brooks Potteiger to the Pentagon to lead a prayer service, during which he hailed President Donald Trump as a divinely appointed leader. Hegseth said at the time he wanted to make his prayer service a monthly tradition.
They haven’t even get rid of the minorities and have already started to separate the whites apart. Bold strategy.
I think this might just be typical of fascism - they believe their own hype, so obviously they’ll be able to fight everyone in the world all at the same time and still win. Waiting is for cowards who doubt their own strength! Don’t siege Leningrad, just take it etc etc
See also: Israel attacking everyone around them at the same time.
The US leadership thought it could defeat Iran in a weekend, they are definitely high on their own exceptionalism delusions
this is so common in evangelical circles. baptists, catholics, anyone not their specific flavor are “fake christians” headed straight for the fiery pit. it would be hilarious if it wasnt so pathetic.
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Tradcaths aren’t real Catholics
Lmao yes they are. And I’m afraid all those supreme court justices count as real Catholics too
tradcaths are the sort who say ‘look i don’t care about the killings in the catholic church of gaza i joined the church for its abortion policy’. its like an entire demographic composed of what would be the most annoying people in a historically catholic/evangelical/lutheran/whatever town.
here’s the question: why ‘trad’ cath and not just cath? the caths are already socially regressive in many of the ways that matter politically in the united states. the trad thing is all about rejecting vatican ii and is quite telling. israel could bomb the pope, jd vance would condemn deep dish pontifex for being hamas.
Very true. I think a lot of it has to do with opus tbh — and the truth is that the Vatican has been very hesitant to deal with them because ‘trad’ caths are an influential (and numerous!) part of the community that they don’t want to lose in a rupture. Also, I suppose it’s helpful to have some ultras to do your dirty work for you while you keep your hands clean. They’re definitely part of the church, is what I’m saying, and I apologize for perhaps being prickly about the topic but I feel like I’m constantly seeing online leftists implying that things would be different if only the anglos would come back to Rome, when the reality is that the prots/catholics are the bad guys when they have institutional power — there’s no theological basis to it
I agree with the sentiment, the way I like to phrase it is that Evangelical Americanism was harnessed to sustain the tenets of the American Empire. Sure, historically this took the form of the CIA funding and politically supporting Neopentecostal groups, but it would be naive to imagine that certain segments of the Catholic Church cannot be used in a similar fashion. Roman Catholicism may have certain limits in its ‘superstructure’ when compared to outright ‘God Loves you if you’re Rich’ Gospel, sure. However, the Catholic Church is not and has never been a monolith. For every 1,000 believers in something akin to Liberation Theology you have one Bishop who’s very powerful and very elitist and who’d lobby against the right to divorce if it was possible to, politically. See Argentina.
Plus, Church Doctrine is downstream from culture. If a bunch of extremely reactionary americans convert to Catholicism, they get to define what ‘tradcath’ means. Not the other way around.
The unfortunate thing is that the sheer scale of Empire ends up dwarfing the very real pain and abuse that, say, native schools in Canada or pedophiles priests in Ireland produce. It’s not that Catholics or online communities don’t think about this stuff. It’s just that if one lives in the American Empire, that life is dominated by the discourse and concerns of fundamentalist evangelicals.
This reminds me of the debates surrounding Chicago Pope’s election. People were asking if the the next pope was going to be BASED REDPILLED or WOKE LIBERAL. Truth is the Catholic Church is a Monarchy and is therefore conservative in a primordial sense of the word. Just as Francis wasn’t that much of a reformer, whoever followed Francis wasn’t about to go full iconoclasm on Francis. As far as the new pope is concerned the last pope can’t have been, as online tradcaths believe, chosen by the devil.
I wouldn’t necessarily limit trad catholics in this way.
Trad caths believe in the spiteful hateful genocidal Old Testament god and are terribly fearful of this and the possibility of burning in hell. So much so they believe we are constantly locked in a holy war against Satan for the fate of all souls.
Their reaction to homosexuality is just a natural extension of this. Any sinful action resulting in going to hell is to be stamped out by force if necessary. Abortion is also on this list.
What’s humorous to me is how ignorant Hegseth and some of these protestants seem to be about Catholic zealotry.
Popes in history have both led and commanded Catholic armies. The Catholic Church has not had a war time pope for some time but trads would absolutely long for another crusades.
I mean, I guess? A lot of “tradcaths” joined for culture war reasons (their favourite YouTuber or other kind of commentator told them to be one), they’re closer to an evangelical in 99% of their opinions and theology, but I guess they stick with Catholic aesthetics for cultural reasons. Many of the same types join the Orthodox Church for the same reasons (also for performative reasons)
What I’ve heard from Catholic circles is that when trad caths show up they tend to get disappointed when they find out that being part of a Catholic congregation is actually not the Reddit convention they had hoped for.
I guess it depends how you define it. I just don’t think you can say “they’re not Catholic”, or even “they’re more evangelical than Catholic” because the truth is the Catholic community has incredibly diverse politics, and depending on where you live it’s going to mean different things. Where I live for example, if someone identifies as Catholic they are 100% a fascist. But then if you live in an anglo country it’s all liberation theology and the IRA.
And that is not always true depending on where in the Anglo country you are. The midwestern bishopric are notoriously conservative.
if you live in an anglo country it’s all liberation theology and the IR
I’m in an Anglo country and most Catholics around me are chuds
Catholics, like other religious groups, also revel in having beef internally. From what I’ve been told, talking shit about the local bishop or specific religious communities inside the church seems to be a large part of the religious practice.
A proud tradition dating back to Dante putting all the popes he didn’t like in hell
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Yes but I assume he’s an honorary Protestant. I mean - why not? His wife and children are honorary Arians.
surely the sectarian religious violence I am instigating in Iraq will never find it’s way back to the metropole
This is some KKK shit.
Is catholicism woke now?
Catholicism kind of is the zeroth International
That is some hilarious revisionism of Catholic history, but sure.
This guys face pisses me off
it gets him pissed too!
The WASP, much beloved by the global South… For reasons…
Such a based thing to do by such an unbased people.