An Open Letter to My Dead Mother About the New Pope with the MAGA Brother

The Pope and the United States. What happened to the American Catholics who were once regarded as a relatively liberal Christian community?

An Open Letter to My Dead Mother about the New Pope with the MAGA Brother

Hey Mum! Remember a couple of months before you died, when you told me the Freemasons had installed Pope Francis? And that he was in cahoots with Obama, who was the Antichrist? You waved your iPad at me, with the YouTube page open that laid it all out. And I said, kind of testily, that Catholics are supposed to believe the Holy Spirit chooses popes, without help from secret societies. And that Obama was just a former president, not a supernatura…

Holy mess: The troubling tale of the pope's MAGA big brother

Every family has one. A deranged uncle, a constantly complaining aunt, a cousin who posts conspiracy theories on Facebook, or a brother who blames all of his life’s problems not on himself but on the world that’s out to get him. "Woe is me" is his only tired, eye-rolling refrain. One of my relatives was hosting a family birthday party recently when her brother-in-law ruined it with smug and verbose remarks about Donald Trump being akin to the se…

The pope’s MAGA brother and how even the holiest families have a black — and red — sheep stained by Trump

There’s one in every family. The black and now red sheep. And we know who that is in the pope’s family, writes John Casey