‘Not a good look’ (Picture: Facebook/Philip J. Pizzo)

A Catholic priest has some rather un-Christian advice for his anti-Trump parishioners – ‘go kill yourselves’.

Father Philip Pizzo, a New York pastor whose parish is largely made up of immigrants, shared a disturbing meme on Facebook just hours after leading Sunday Mass.

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‘Show your hate for Trump,’ the meme said, with a picture of a person plummeting from the top of a skyscraper. ‘Do it for social justice. #JumpAgainstTrump.’

Confronted over the concerning image, 67-year-old Pizzo told the New York Post that he thought the meme was amusing.


‘I do not promote suicide,’ he insisted. ‘I’ve helped many people over the years, and it does not promote suicide. It was funny.’

The meme was posted on his Facebook page (Picture: Facebook/Philip J. Pizzo)

However, many parishioners were outraged.



‘Suicide is not funny, plain and simple,’ Carlos Coburn, a congregant who has struggled wtih suicidal thoughts in the past, told the Post.

Coburn added that, despite attending this church for 20 years, he was now thinking about worshipping elsewhere.

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And another parishioner, Alex Leston, said this meme shows how disconnected Pizzo is from his congregation.

‘The parish he is supposed to be serving is mainly Latin American and Caribbean,’ he told the Post. ‘It’s not a good look for him.’

The post has since been deleted, and a spokesperson for the Diocese of Brooklyn said that it does not reflect the church’s stance.

‘[Pizzo] intended it as satire only, regrets the offence it has caused and has deleted it,’ spokesman Vito Formica added.

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