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The Insider reports:
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the US Roman Catholic Church’s leaders on Wednesday, calling its bishops “criminals and abusers.”
In a 700-word statement, Greene demanded an apology from Catholic League president Bill Donohue, who had earlier criticized her for saying that “Satan’s controlling the Church.” Greene had made the comment during an interview with the right-wing site Church Militant.
Donohue had also called Greene a “loose cannon” and a “disgrace,” adding that she had slandered the entire Church and “needs to apologize to Catholics immediately.” However, Greene’s official statement did just the opposite, with the congresswoman doubling down on her earlier comments instead.
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“Today, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue accused me of slandering Catholics and Catholicism in an interview I gave to Michael Voris at Church Militant. Nothing could be further from the truth, and he must apologize promptly and publicly for these words. 2/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
Donohue should have called my office, or had a staffer check Google, before firing off a hysterical-sounding statement. He doesn’t know this, but I am a cradle Catholic. I was born into the church, raised in it and I was married in the Church. 3/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
With great sorrow, and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, I stopped attending Catholic Mass when I became a mother, because I realized that I could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles, and that they harbored monsters even in their own ranks. 4/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
It’s the church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil. The bishops know that, but had their loyal lapdog pretend I was being disrespectful about the faith. 5/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said “controlled by Satan,” I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.
The Catholic Church must throw out these monsters instead of lecturing the people its own bishops have driven away. 6/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
I refuse to use kinder, gentler language as Bill Donohue might prefer when I talk about his disgusting and corrupt friends, who have made him rich with the donations from ordinary churchgoing Catholics.
I love God and I love Jesus Christ. 7/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
Is the same true of the scheming bureaucrats in miters who preach the gospel while turning a blind eye to the abuse of innocents? That’s for God to determine—and punish. 8/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
But I can tell you that it’s the bishops’ wickedness that has driven me away from the Church, and I make no apologies for saying so.
America’s Catholic bishops are some of the worst in the world. 9/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
The bishops are also busy destroying our nation using taxpayer money to advocate for the illegal invasion across our borders. They dare to dress up Democrat vandalism and lawlessness as somehow “religious,” which perhaps explains their distaste for me. 13/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
What more can we expect from criminals and abusers living unaccountable lives of luxury funded by the rest of us, draped in fine linens while choirboys are raped. 14/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
I myself, baptized and married in the Catholic Church, left because I would not submit the spiritual and physical livelihood of my children to these monsters. Bill Donohue, by contrast, makes a million dollars a year, partly from sending out emails to defend corrupt bishops. 15/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
If you think I’m exaggerating, Donohue breezily claimed on television recently that the abuse crisis in the church was “over,” relying on data provided by the same bishops who rake in taxpayer money in the name of our Heavenly Father yet have still, somehow, bankrupted the… 17/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
…Church, and who spend donations on lawsuits to silence their victims.
Forgive me if I decline to take lectures from the man bishops send out to do their dirty work when their delicate feelings are hurt. 18/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022
Until the people running the Catholic Church stop abusing children and stop covering up the abuse of children, I will continue to hold them to account. And I’ll keep naming and shaming the craven enablers who write their press releases, too. 20/
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 27, 2022