U.S. Catholic Church in Snapshots from Twitter, as Georgetown Prep Grad Kavanaugh Is Seated as a Supreme

.@newtgingrich and I congratulate our new Supreme Court Justice. pic.twitter.com/LDlDsUhL4k

— Callista Gingrich (@CallyGingrich) October 6, 2018

Why not share these tweets now? As you'll quickly see, there's a thread connecting them. For one thing, they provide a snapshot of what the pastoral leaders of the Catholic church in the U.S., aided and abetted by the powerful voices of lay Catholic intellectual leaders in the academy and journalistic sphere, have made of the Catholic church in the U.S. at this point in history — not in the least a pretty picture:

I was shocked that @georgetownprep issued a tone-deaf press release on #KavanaughConfirmation. I’m even more shocked that they blocked me. As a Jesuit-educated, father of G’town Prep grad, I’d assumed they wouldn’t be so thin-skinned. Not a good example of Jesuit faith & courage pic.twitter.com/ZiVVw9Qql2

— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) October 8, 2018

The Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia says LGBTQ people don't exist as a group, and that liberals are to blame for the Church’s sex abuse crisis.

Really? And I foolishly thought priests molesting children was to blame!

Pointy hat does not equal brains. https://t.co/Bh8ywYsKtC

— Alex Bartos #resist #glovesoff (@itsreallyalexb) October 6, 2018

Watch: Fox News guest falls off chair while taunting Dems with beer toast to Kavanaugh -- claims it was intentional https://t.co/E5lov0sZYk via rawstory

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) October 6, 2018

#Giuliani is Catholic. We need to understand that it is not just Evangelicals. Also Catholic? Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Devin Nunes, Corey Lewandoski, Carter Paige. >60% of White Catholics voted for a sexual assaulter. Oh and:

— Reader Adrift (@ReaderAdrift) October 6, 2018

“In an unprecedented three-page missive filled with a kind of forceful language rarely shared publicly between two Catholic prelates, Cardinal Marc Ouellet tells Archbishop Carlo Vigano his actions have been ‘extremely immoral’ and that he has made” /1

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) October 7, 2018

“an ‘unheard of and undeserved blow" on Pope Francis' moral authority.’” /2

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) October 7, 2018

But OF COURSE Wall Street Journal twists Card. Ouellet’s rejoinder to Viganò’s lies to continue the attack on Pope Francis, because that attack is re: muzzling Catholic social teaching (and the gospels).

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) October 7, 2018

Given Pope’s announcement of McCarrick investigation and pledge to follow the truth wherever it may lead, coupled with Ouellet’s rebuke of Vigano, the Vatican is preparing the Church for a great reckoning regarding the current abuse storm. Some will be shocked, others not so much pic.twitter.com/ASxYBoDr1B

— Rich Raho (@RichRaho) October 7, 2018