Marjorie Taylor Greene Says ‘Hand of God’ Defeated Evil After Pope Francis’ Dying

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene mentioned evil is “being defeated by the hand of God” in a Monday, April 21, social media submit, printed after Pope Francis’ demise.

“As we speak there have been main shifts in international leaderships,” the Georgia Republican, 50, posted on X. “Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.”

Greene did not particularly point out the pope’s demise in her submit. She can also have been referring to Klaus Schwab, the founder and chairman of the World Financial Discussion board (WEF), stepping down because the chief of its board. 

Greene has been a longtime critic of the Catholic Church and the WEF.

Whereas born a Catholic, the GOP rep and MAGA supporter now purports to be an evangelical Protestant. Greene mentioned in a prolonged submit on X in April 2022 that she was raised and married within the Catholic Church, however left when she turned a mom.

“I noticed that I couldn’t belief the Church management to guard my youngsters from pedophiles, and that they harbored monsters even in their very own ranks,” Greene wrote on the time.

On the similar time, the congresswoman leveled criticism at Catholic management within the U.S. for offering assist to undocumented immigrants. She turned concerned in a public feud with Invoice Donohue, the president of the Catholic League for Spiritual and Civil Rights, after an interview with right-wing Christian activist Michael Voris, through which she mentioned she noticed proof that “Devil is controlling the [Catholic] church.”

“The bishops are additionally busy destroying our nation utilizing taxpayer cash to advocate for the unlawful invasion throughout our borders,” she wrote in April 2022. “They dare to decorate up Democrat vandalism and lawlessness as one way or the other ‘non secular,’ which maybe explains their distaste for me.”

The late Pope Francis was additionally a divisive determine for Greene’s ally, President Donald Trump.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936, the pope spoke out in opposition to Trump’s immigration insurance policies a number of instances all through each of his presidencies. Throughout Trump’s first time period, the pope mentioned his plan to construct a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico was “not Christian.”

He was rebuked by the president, who known as him a “very political individual.” Nonetheless, Trump was joyful to simply accept the pope’s 2017 invitation to go to Vatican Metropolis, calling it the “honor of a lifetime.”

On Monday, Trump posted that he and First Woman Melania Trump will attend the pope’s funeral in Rome. “We sit up for being there!” he wrote on Reality Social.

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Republican vice chairman J.D. Vance met with Pope Francis on Sunday, April 20, simply hours earlier than the Catholic chief died. 

In a press launch, the Vatican mentioned the pair had “an alternate of opinions on the worldwide state of affairs, particularly relating to nations affected by conflict, political tensions and troublesome humanitarian conditions, with specific consideration to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.” 

Later, in his official Easter tackle, which was written by the pope however delivered by an aide because of the chief’s poor well being, he doubled down on the significance of compassion for discounted members of society. 

“What an ideal thirst for demise, for killing, we witness every day within the many conflicts raging in numerous elements of our world,” he wrote. “How a lot violence we see, usually even inside households, directed at girls and youngsters! How a lot contempt is stirred up at instances in the direction of the susceptible, the marginalized, and migrants!”