Since they said “mass” and “priest”, I’m guessing they’re talking about a catholic church. I have been to a lot of catholic masses, and if my experience is anything like other people’s experience, catholic priests seem to actively avoid political statements in their sermons. I’m sure political priests are out there, but I’ve been to a lot of different catholic churches all over america as a kid, and I never heard a political sermon.
Almost always, sermons are either about the specific bible passages for that day, or they’re a story that the priest heard, or they’re about a moral dilemma that the priest observed somewhere or made up, or they want you to donate money to something, and so the sermon is about how good that thing is or will be.
It wasn’t until recently, when I was forced to watch some catholic masses on the internet, that I ever remember seeing any political sermons. And they were from a priest I think called Chris Alar, who also said that his family all advised him not to become a priest. When he told that story, I think he was implying that his family all thought he was far too stupid to get people to listen to him. But anyways, he talks a lot about politics and even argues with YouTube comments to his previous sermons during his sermon. He truly comes off like a pompous idiot, at least to me.
I finally got my mother to watch the priest I think called Mike Schmidt instead, who seems to give the typical catholic sermons that I grew up with.
Sorry for the detour, but my point is that I suspect the odds are good that this priest didn’t actually say “ICE.” He probably just talked about treating immigrants in the way that the Bible tells you to. I think it’s this thing with bigots that when they hear somebody talking about bigotry in general, they somehow hear it like they were mentioned by name.
My experience is also that they try to avoid politics. However Catholic priests certainly talk about human rights violations, oppression, and racism. In today’s world it’s tough to talk about things like that that are clearly in their wheelhouse while trying to avoid politics
Political sermons are probably more common in poorer countries, I imagine. I’m from a poorer country and the Catholic masses I used to attend would have priests talk about social justice. I don’t recall the priests singling out any particular politicians or groups but we all know who they are talking about. Maybe in the past, priests were more direct in criticism. The liberation theology movement in the latter half of the 20th century was instrumental in toppling many dictatorships. I think there were couple of Catholic priests who were assassinated for voicing out against dictators in Latin America.
I am from a poor country. Here, politics is never discussed in sermons. Sermons are either around Bible passages or some charismatic church talking about their miracles. Maybe cuz Christianity is a minority where I live and also there are state regulations. Although today’s Christian youth where I live are inspired from American pastors so they have weird stances too like believing in conspiracy theories, hatred against Muslims, and etc. And also most of Christians are very poor like laborers, working in gutters, or doing very menial jobs and victim of forced conversions and discrimination, so there is barely any chance that sermons can be political. Many churches, after Oct 7, have stopped reading those psalms that mention Israel in order to avoid misunderstandings.
Since they said “mass” and “priest”, I’m guessing they’re talking about a catholic church. I have been to a lot of catholic masses, and if my experience is anything like other people’s experience, catholic priests seem to actively avoid political statements in their sermons. I’m sure political priests are out there, but I’ve been to a lot of different catholic churches all over america as a kid, and I never heard a political sermon.
Almost always, sermons are either about the specific bible passages for that day, or they’re a story that the priest heard, or they’re about a moral dilemma that the priest observed somewhere or made up, or they want you to donate money to something, and so the sermon is about how good that thing is or will be.
It wasn’t until recently, when I was forced to watch some catholic masses on the internet, that I ever remember seeing any political sermons. And they were from a priest I think called Chris Alar, who also said that his family all advised him not to become a priest. When he told that story, I think he was implying that his family all thought he was far too stupid to get people to listen to him. But anyways, he talks a lot about politics and even argues with YouTube comments to his previous sermons during his sermon. He truly comes off like a pompous idiot, at least to me.
I finally got my mother to watch the priest I think called Mike Schmidt instead, who seems to give the typical catholic sermons that I grew up with.
Sorry for the detour, but my point is that I suspect the odds are good that this priest didn’t actually say “ICE.” He probably just talked about treating immigrants in the way that the Bible tells you to. I think it’s this thing with bigots that when they hear somebody talking about bigotry in general, they somehow hear it like they were mentioned by name.
My experience is also that they try to avoid politics. However Catholic priests certainly talk about human rights violations, oppression, and racism. In today’s world it’s tough to talk about things like that that are clearly in their wheelhouse while trying to avoid politics
Political sermons are probably more common in poorer countries, I imagine. I’m from a poorer country and the Catholic masses I used to attend would have priests talk about social justice. I don’t recall the priests singling out any particular politicians or groups but we all know who they are talking about. Maybe in the past, priests were more direct in criticism. The liberation theology movement in the latter half of the 20th century was instrumental in toppling many dictatorships. I think there were couple of Catholic priests who were assassinated for voicing out against dictators in Latin America.
I am from a poor country. Here, politics is never discussed in sermons. Sermons are either around Bible passages or some charismatic church talking about their miracles. Maybe cuz Christianity is a minority where I live and also there are state regulations. Although today’s Christian youth where I live are inspired from American pastors so they have weird stances too like believing in conspiracy theories, hatred against Muslims, and etc. And also most of Christians are very poor like laborers, working in gutters, or doing very menial jobs and victim of forced conversions and discrimination, so there is barely any chance that sermons can be political. Many churches, after Oct 7, have stopped reading those psalms that mention Israel in order to avoid misunderstandings.
Jesus was famously a-political
Well I think he wanted to be the ruler eventually.
I am an atheist and I also like watching Mike Schmidt.
Priest probably just said something like “be good to thy neighbours” and the maga extrapolated from there lmao.