Mary Sanchez: Harrison Butker’s tantrum against Catholicism
Be grateful that Harrison Butker is an NFL kicker, not a politician, or a person with any authority over others. This is the backstory that’ s gone curiously untold about Butker, who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, when he was invited to give a commencement speech to graduates at Benedictine College, a small Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas.
Be grateful that Harrison Butker is an NFL kicker, not a politician, or a person with any authority over others.
Because people who are beholden to his religious identity – Catholicism’s ultra conservative Opus Dei – have long stirred a global backlash.
Opus Dei, which is Latin for “work of God,” is a century-old arm of the Catholic church, whose harshest critics have long tried to label it a cult, tracing early adherents to fascist dictators.
This is the backstory
