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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmy Coney Barrett's little-known Catholic group, People of Praise
People of Praise appeared after the Second Vatican Council, when in an effort to accommodate diversity and globalization, the church for the first time encouraged lay-led groups that had different styles of prayer. Generally what the groups shared was a desire for a more intense, more experiential faith.
Some of these lay-led groups have tens of thousands of members, like Focolare, which focuses on interfaith dialogue, and Communion and Liberation, which emphasizes that Christians must take their faith outside the private sphere.
Many of these groups are charismatic, meaning they pray in a demonstrative way more typical of Protestant Pentecostal groups speaking in tongues and practicing faith healing. While evil is a core focus of all faiths theology, for charismatic groups like the People of Praise, the idea of dark forces at work is very real, not metaphoric.
People of Praise is focused on community. Single members might choose to live in a house with a family, or live in a house with other single members. Each member has a spiritual guide, called a head. The regional female leaders were called handmaids before the Margaret Atwood novel and subsequent TV series made that word too charged, and are now called women leaders, said Craig Lent, People of Praises overall coordinator, a position akin to chairman of the board. The coordinator is elected by the board to a single, six-year term.
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no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)Hillary had The Family.
Antonin Scalia had Opus Dei.
God only knows how many groups Trump joined to get votes.
Can't anyone do their job without a religious club telling them how to do their job?
Initech
(100,063 posts)There was another justice that belonged to the same cult. I can't remember their name though.
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)I am sick of these religious fucks.
They are all diseased.
UTUSN
(70,680 posts)It was the '70s, the post-Hippie freedom to dip into any mental fad - Jesus Freaks, scientology, Eastern religion, Carlos CASTANEDA, pop psychology, et al.
So it didn't seem that freaky for the PotUS to carry his Bible around and teach Sunday School. Seemed even sort of normal, or more like *familiar*, compared to all the nuttiness around. I'm not at all saying that CARTER governmentally institutionalized de-Separation, but he put it smack "in the air." Gone was JFK's clear distinction of Separation, and CARTER's homey (Populist?) practice was non-threatening, barely a hint of the potential impact.
CARTER, good man, has a lot we got stuck with: He paved the way for RAYGUN; had a nest of vipers (Pat CADDELL, co-founder of the Carlyle Group RUBENSTEIN; Tweety); was a (proto-Populist? - the religion thing; anti-"elites"/KENNEDYs) that SHITLER now takes as a mold without the inside heart.
UTUSN
(70,680 posts)She practices mainstream Catholicism, what our Democratic politicians follow, keeping Separation Church/State clear, allowing for Choice while personally professing anti-abortion.
As I say, I don't know whether her erstwhile friends belong to this specific group, but going back to the John KERRY campaign, they would get heated at lunch or wherever and tell her she was "going to Hell" because of her support for Choice politicians like KERRY. From the article in the O.P., it sounds like them.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 8, 2018, 12:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Which smells like Opus Dei. And The Becket Fund are right wing pigs, hooked into the Kochs. So it the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where Ms. Hasson works:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ethics_and_Public_Policy_Center
Purely bircher funded, though it has catholic and jewish members on the board.
Vatican II wasn't promulgated with these creeps in mind. They just used the door it opened.
And it is transparent b.s. to have the reich wing complain that anyone who thinks there's something wrong with this little group is engaged in the same kind of anti-catholicism that attacked JFK and Al Smith.
Because these creeps are with the people who attacked JFK and Al Smith, just because they were Catholic. Now the repugs have some insane rightwing catholics, and they want to pretend we're the bigots, just attacking their little nazi cultists because they're 'catholic.' Tryin to spin our heads.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)The adherents might not move to another area or take a promotion, unless there's a POP chapter there. But they'd only be able to have an average of 17 adherents, at most, in each of the 100 biggest metro areas in the country.
With that kind of crazy rule, there's no reason for this group to be so influential, or to have even have gotten off the ground, on its own.