Marjorie Taylor Greene says Catholic bishops are ‘controlled by Satan’
ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene fired back on Wednesday after a religious and civil rights group called for her censure over an online post that followed the death of Pope Francis.
The tweet, which was posted right before 10:45 a.m. Monday and does not name Pope Francis, was made just hours after the Vatican announced Francis’ ing.
It reads, “Today there were major shifts in global leaderships. Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.”
Today there were major shifts in global leaderships.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) April 21, 2025
Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is calling for Greene’s censure.
She doubled down in a lengthy statement she issued Wednesday, demanding an apology over a letter Catholic League President William Donohue said in a letter to the House Ethics Committee.
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She said she stopped attending Mass when she became a mother after realizing she “could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles.”
“It’s the church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil,” she went on. “Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said ‘controlled by Satan,’ I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.”
Greene did not mention Pope Francis by name in her response, but the pope is the bishop of Rome.
Greene’s initial post drew ire from many, including Clarence Blalock, a Democrat who is seeking to unseat Greene as the U.S. House District 14 representative in 2026 after falling short in the 2024 Democratic primary for the seat.
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