Josh Gay

People walk through the streets carrying flowers, singing songs, carrying candles.

They're about as threatening as a church bake sale.

Less threatening, actually, because a church bake sale, you could at least have the potential to get, like, foodborne illness.

But in this world of Christian nationalist extremism, Catholicism is just another enemy.

Hegseth and Wilson, they say they love Jesus, just not his mom or Jesus' actual teachings, which is a wild theological position to take, by the way.

Yeah, we worship the Son of God, but we think that the woman who gave birth to him is kind of the problem.

Also, he's too woke.

Pick a lane, gentlemen.

But to them, it's fine if you're somebody who's in the Epstein files, because that's when their moral flexibility starts to kick in.

Somehow you can be associated with a child abuser and be welcome at the table.

But if you're a 90-year-old woman carrying a candle through the streets of Boston, you're the real problem in America.

And I know the comments are coming.

I will always say this.

The Catholic Church, they've got plenty of sins to atone for centuries.

Truly horrific, systemic, institutional sins that still have not been reckoned with.

But the last couple of popes, including Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, have moved things in the right direction.

This pope has been vocal about climate change, about poverty, about welcoming refugees, and about denouncing illegal wars in the Middle East.

Which, by the way, those are concepts that Jesus talked about.

Helping refugees.

Ending poverty.