The renegade Catholic clerics who shamefully backed Trump's Big Lie

Published Jan 20 2021 at 1:52 AM GMT

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There can be no doubt that the statements of a group of Catholic religious leaders, their voices amplified by far-right media, helped to create the violent atmosphere that exploded on Capitol Hill, writes Paul Moses.
And Catholic bishops and other Catholic opinion-makers have mostly been slow to respond to this misuse of their faith to help Trump as he tried to lie and bully his way into a second term.