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occupydemocrats on Instagram: "🚨BREAKING: Pete Hegeth’s Pentagon SPITS on Catholic soldiers on Good Friday by hosting a Protestants-only chapel service with the …" 🚨BREAKING: Pete Hegeth’s Pentagon SPITS on Catholic soldiers on Good Friday by hosting a Protestants-only chapel service with the message “No Catholic Mass.”This is absolutely jaw-dropping....According to HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery, the Defense Department has invited over 3,500 employees to a Good Friday service at the Pentagon Chapel “except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics.” She obtained an email sent out by Air Force leadership, which laid out the outrageous abuse of religious liberty in plain text.“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” it reads.“I guess so the Catholics know their kind ain’t welcome. It’s so ridiculous,” a Pentagon employee told her.When Bendery reached out to the Pentagon, a spokesperson confirmed that there will not be another, separate service for Catholics in the Pentagon chapel today. While Catholics do not celebrate the full Mass on Good Friday, they do hold liturgies, intercessions, distribute pre-consecrated Eucharist, and observe the Stations of the Cross. Hegseth’s Pentagon has done nothing to honor these sacred traditions.This one isn’t hard to puzzle out. The Christian Nationalist movement that Hegseth is part of is Evangelical to its core. They view Catholics with something between suspicion and outright hostility. Hegseth previously invited pastor Doug Wilson to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon. Wilson has called for a Christian theocracy in America, suggested that “biblical slavery” might come back under that theocracy, and called for banning Catholic processions.In this Evangelical vision of a Christian America, Catholic cathedrals are torn down and replaced with golden statues of Trump holding the cross.This animosity towards Catholics is also rooted in backlash against Pope Leo XIV’s outspoken anti-MAGA sentiments. He has repeatedly condemned the cruel treatment of migrants as well as Trump’s illegal, bloody Iran War. Many Republicans now view Leo and by extension all Catholics as an enemy.We stand with Leo and our Catholic soldiers, do you?Please like and share!View all 1,873 comments https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWrtckgEVR5/?igsh=MTRkamI5YW94YTJldQ==