The lead counsel is Pat Cipollone, who is White House counsel and one of the most prominent conservative Catholics in the administration. According to Laura Ingraham, he is responsible for her conversion to Catholicism, which is one reason not to like him. Ingraham has become the most hateful of the Fox News primetime hosts, and that is saying something.
National Catholic Reporter: Michael Sean Winters
Couldn't resist sharing this with you because I'm coming to think Winters is one of my favorite journalists right now. He continued:
He co-founded the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, which is really the "conservative Catholic prayer breakfast." I remember Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated Mass for them one year: I remember it vividly because he did not use the cathedral. Later I was told he refused to ask then-Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl for the privilege.
Cipollone also served as general counsel to the Knights of Columbus. He was on the board of the Catholic Information Center, an Opus Dei-run hotbed of conservative Catholicism located just blocks from the White House.
It will surprise no one that he has been involved with the Federalist Society, which is an incubator for Republican legal geniuses and a network largely constructed by fellow Catholic Leonard Leo. Whenever Donald Trump leaves office, his most lasting legacy may be the large number of arch-conservative judges now on the federal bench.
Cipollone may be a fine Catholic [Hey, he's got to maintain an appearance of journalistic impartiality, though it's not true.] but, alas, he had some trouble with the Eighth Commandment, as former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) pointed out: "A lawyer does not stand in front of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and lie." Cipollone had said House Republicans were not permitted in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a room in the U.S. Capitol used to discuss classified information. The Republicans staged a protest outside the room for Fox News, but the GOP members of the Intelligence Committee were permitted in the room and participated in the depositions.
What he and the rest of those listed in the article show is that there is a neo-fascist clique that has attached itself to the Catholic church, especially in the United States. And they are fascists and gangsters that are all about being Catholic as long as that doesn't have anything to do with Christianity, which accounts for them being uniformly Francis haters.
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