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the Catholic Wing of the Religious Right or, if you will, the Right Wing of the Catholic Church |
| There are very powerful reactionary forces in the Roman Catholic Church, both within the clergy and in the laity who are in high places in the secular world. This page is what you might call a "work in progress". It is mainly a repository of articles and/or examples illustrating how Conservative the Catholic Church is not just worldwide, but - despite the belief of many to the contrary - even in the U. S. A. |
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"It is ' false and absurd or rather mad', Pope Gregory XVI declared in 1832, 'that we must secure and guarantee to each one liberty of conscience; this is one of the most contagious of errors . . . To this is attached liberty of the press, the most dangerous liberty, an execrable liberty, which can never inspire sufficent horror.' " [ Constantine's Sword, p. 441 ]
In 1864 Pius IX published his "Syllabus of Errors" which contained: See entire text at http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/p9syll.htm
"On the 18th of June, 1871, responding to a deputation of French Catholics, Pius IX spoke thus: 'Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary." "The Anglican Church Times saw the pope as the divider rather than uniter of Christendom and greeted the encyclical with 'disgust and derision'. The leader-writer pointed out that Pius had no sympathy with civilization, progress, science or intellect. He looked on these as `deadly enemies of faith'." The comment of The (London) Times was the shrewdest: `There is scarcely a political system in Europe, except the the Papal (Vatican) Government that does not rest on principles which are here declared to be damnable errors. ' This was true. Throughout the nineteenth century, the papacy, had been pressuring governments to deny their citizens those rights which were denied citizens in the Papal States. From 1831 the popes attacked each new constitution - the Austrian, French, Belgian - as 'godless'. Why? Because they dared like atheists to grant freedom of conscience; freedom of the press; free parliamentary institutions for which all were entitled to vote, regardless of their religion or lack of it; complete equality of all citizens before the law. The papacy kept urging other Italian states to imitate its own repression. For example, in 1852, Pius IX persuaded Tuscany to forbid Jewish doctors to practise medicine. The overriding impression given was: The one thing Rome cannot abide is freedom in any form." pp. 246-7
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy), "The (Irish-American majority of) bishops at this time came to share American ideals of liberalism. Therefore they allowed their members to join groups led by Protestants. They also emphasized the role of the laity more than some felt acceptable. Cardinal Gibbons and others indicated the priests should "go to the people" rather than the other way around. The vows of obedience in many religious orders seemed threatened because they may contradict American ideals of independence. American bishops allegedly felt harmony between different faiths would be benefitted if Catholicism downplayed its notion of being "the One Holy Apostolic Church." They also felt that separation of church and state should be supported instead of hoping that the United States could some day turn into a Roman Catholic nation. Finally the "heresy" believed Catholics should attend public school, read whatever they want, and express pride in a majority-Protestant nation." |
| Lest there be any doubt how the control of the Roman Catholic Church shifted from the Liberals in high places for a brief period when John XXIII was elevated to the papacy and they prevailed on a few issues during the Second Vatican Council, see the 33 day papacy of the ultra-Liberal John Paul the First, where we show that the ultra-Conservatives would stop at nothing - including the murder of at least one liberal pope and of several liberal papal electors (i.e. cardinals) in order to get the Catholic Church back into total Conservative control.. |
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The "Religious Right" is more than Fundamentalists and theocrats like Pat Robertson and Gerry Falwell. These celebrities represent the Protestant wing of the Religious Right, but the Vatican Curia, Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and most of the bishops whom they have appointed and control throughout the world represent the Catholic wing of the "Religious Right". Many people are under the illusion that because the Catholic hierarchy in the United States has been fairly liberal in the past that they are an exception. But the fact is that just about every bishop in the U.S. today was hand-picked by Pope John Paul II, because he agreed to a large extent with his ultra-conservative world view. (One famous exception in America today is Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who is quite Liberal, but was nothing but a powerless "auxiliary bishop" for his entire 38 year career, since he was appointed by Pope Paul VI.) The U.S.A.'s conservative prelates may not agree on every detail of the Religious Right's agenda, but the following shows that they agree with them enough to make them allies when and where it counts : See if you can detect any difference between the purpose of the "voter guides" promoted by the largely Protestant "Christian Coalition" and those distributed at Catholic Churches in the 2004 election and promoted at: where Catholics are instructed to base their votes (and party affiliation) only on these five "non-negotiable" issues :
"Do not reward with your vote candidates who are right on lesser issues but who are wrong on key moral issues. One candidate may have a record of voting exactly as you wish, aside from voting also in favor of, say, euthanasia. Such a candidate should not get your vote. Candidates need to learn that being wrong on even one of the non-negotiable issues is enough to exclude them from consideration." |
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to practice birth-control and/or abortion actions taken against public servants who defend such rights
Pope John Paul II (& Benedict XVI) opposed to any choice : After persuading German legislators to require that women seeking an abortion first go for counseling and thereafter produce a certificate to prove that they had done so, the Vatican then ordered the Catholic Bishops to deny requests for such certificates from Catholic women : news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/456638.stm See Vote "Pro-Life" without regard to any other issue. And the slightly less conservative site : Your Catholic Voice Published in the Boston Globe, November 11, 2003 : Bishops may punish politicians Pro-abortion position of Catholic lawmakers a source of frustration By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff Washington, D.C. -- "Frustrated that so many Catholic politicians support abortion rights, the bishops of the United States said yesterday that they will begin evaluating whether they can impose sanctions against elected officials who vote contrary to church teachings. According to The New York Times, May 14, 2004 :
"Bishop Would Deny Rite for Defiant Catholic Voters" "The Roman Catholic bishop of Colorado Springs has issued a pastoral letter saying that American Catholics should not receive communion if they vote for politicians who defy church teaching by supporting abortion rights, same-sex marriage, euthanasia or stem-cell research." Atlanta (AP) -- Roman Catholic bishops in three
Southeastern dioceses said Wednesday they will deny
Communion to lawmakers who consistently support abortion
rights unless the dissenting politicians publicly recant.
"Between the years of approximately 1948 to 1963, the Catholic bishops of New England lobbied furiously against the legalization of contraception. This story is told in John McGreevy's brilliant new Catholicism and American Freedom, and if I could recommend one book to every Massachusetts Catholic senator / representative, this would be it. McGreevy's survey of the archives has found letters and memos in which the bishops acknowledged that they had to throw in the towel; they simply couldn't find Catholic legislators willing to go back into the ring and fight anymore. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040820/ap_on_re_us/communion_denied. By John Curran, Associated Press Writer Brielle, N.J. - An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Roman Catholic doctrine. |
objection to Spain's efforts to treat its gay citizens fairly. Then. just weeks after his election to the papacy, "Pope Benedict XVI Condemns Same-Sex Unions" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pope&printer=1 "Benedict, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, spearheaded a Vatican campaign against same-sex unions in 2003, issuing guidelines for Catholic politicians to oppose laws granting legal rights to gay couples when he was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The former cardinal also frequently voiced the church's opposition to abortion " Michigan considering legislation to allow Doctors to refuse to treat gays "Doctors or other health care providers could not be disciplined or sued if they refuse to treat gay patients under legislation passed by the Michigan House. The bill allows health care workers to refuse service to anyone on moral, ethical or religious grounds. The Republican dominated House passed the measure as dozens of Catholics looked on from the gallery. The Michigan Catholic Conference, which pushed for the bills, hosted a legislative day for Catholics on Wednesday at the state Capitol." The Catholic Church has such a problem with the issue of homosexuality, that we devote a separate page to that issue at www.CatholicArrogance.Org/Catholic/ Homophobia. |
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| AP story : J.F.K. denounced in Congress A Roman Catholic priest caused a stir on the House floor Tuesday (4/13/04), when he urged lawmakers (in the U.S. House) to "be the antithesis of John Kennedy." |
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The U.S. mainstream media today is awash with Roman Catholics and most of these Journalists and Pundits are well right of center. | ||
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Mel Gibson has a great deal of respect for his 85 year old father, Hutton Gibson, who has spent years writting ultra-Conservative screeds denying the Jewish Holocaust and denouncing the Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, After calling for "complete destruction" of the post-Vatican II church, about which he wrote, "To any who impede (his idea of orthodox pre-Vatican Catholicism), to all who promoted the current deviation, through act or omission, we most heartedly wish the end they have chosen: May they roast eternally in the deepest pit of hell!" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4224452/ Pope John Paul II message to "Liberal" Catholics ( 16 September 1987 ) : "It is sometimes reported that a large number of Catholics today, do not adhere to the teaching of the Church on a number of questions; notably, sexual and conjugal morality, divorce and remarriage, some are reported as not accepting the Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective to their adherence to the Church's moral teaching. It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with being a "good Catholic" and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. This is a grave error that challenges the teaching office of the Bishops of the United States and elsewhere." "Michael Novak, an intellectual leader of Catholic neoconservatives, along with University of Notre Dame professor of medieval studies Ralph McInerny, launched Catholicism in Crisis in 1982. The publication provided a voice for conservative critics of the American hierarchy at a time when the U.S. Bishops Conference was preparing pastoral letters on war and the economy. " "Theologically, Crisis was conservative, backing Pope John Paul II and critical of those whose interpretations of the Second Vatican Council differed from those offered by Rome. Over the years, the magazine's contributing editors and publication committee would become a who's who of conservative Catholicism: papal biographer George Weigel, Nurturing Network president Mary Cunningham Agee, former Drug Czar William Bennett, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, CEO J. Peter Grace, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Thomas Melady, Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, novelist Walker Percy, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, and political activist Paul Weyrich among them." . . . Deal Hudson "He secured support from the right-leaning Bradley and Scaife foundations that would total more than six figures; Domino's Pizza, owned by conservative Catholic activist Tom Monahan, signed up for 1,000 subscriptions." Father John McCloskey is a graduate from Columbia, who was a Wall Streeter who worked at Citibank and Merrill Lynch before becomikng a priest and the the director of the Opus Dei-run the Catholic Information Center of Washington, D. C. Among his well known converts are CNBC supply-side economic analyst Lawrence Kudlow, and U.S. Senator Sam Brownback or journalist Robert Novak. Excerpts from : boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2003/11/02/the_crusaders/: The (U.S. Catholic) Crusaders "A powerful faction of religious and political conservatives is waging a latter-day counterreformation, battling widespread efforts to liberalize the American Catholic Church. And it has the clout and the connections to succeed. The conservative opposition is tied in to the elites of Washington, D.C. -- McCloskey's high-profile catechumens are hardly the only example -- and its magazines and think tanks are funded by the same foundations that have been the fountainhead of movement conservatism over the past three decades. And just as the clergy sexual abuse scandal energized the reformers, it energized the traditionalists. "That's where the leadership and the power of the church are right now, no question," says the Rev. Richard McBrien, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame. "These people have direct access to the papacy." "During his 25-year pontificate, the pope has allied himself with the traditionalist side of every ongoing dispute within the Catholic Church. He's done so in his 2,400 public speeches and in his 14 encyclicals and in the fact that he has named 130 of the 135 cardinals who will vote on his eventual successor. He's even done so in the 477 saints he's canonized, more than the combined total of his 17 immediate predecessors. These latter-day saints include Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the Spanish founder of the Opus Dei movement. Opus Dei, an influential lay order with an estimated 80,000 members in 80 countries, is both a particular favorite of the pope's and an example of another way in which he has managed to put his personal stamp on every part of the church -- in this case, the laity. The society has been controversial, and its secretive nature and its ability to ally itself with centers of power both inside and outside the church have turned Opus Dei into a potent force, an influential, deeply connected, and well-financed faction -- a counterreformation, to borrow a useful term from Roman Catholic history -- that was determined not only to prevent the scandal from being used as a Trojan horse for all manner of church reform but also to use its efforts within the church to affect the politics and culture outside of it." Bishops Tighten (Conservative) Control Richmond's new Bishop, Francis Di Lorenzo, who replaced Bishop Walter Sullivan only four months ago, has discontinued the diocesan "sexual minorities" commission which had advised Sullivan on gay and lesbian concerns. Di Lorenzo also appointed a theological watchdog, Fr. Russel E. Smith, who must grant approval for all parish speakers. "Every case will be decided according to the same standard: orthodoxy" said Smith, whose duties include investigating complaints that lay people are preaching at worship. DiLorenzo also removed a woman from the diocesan women's commission because she supported women's ordination. (America, 8/13/2004). Bishop Robert Vasa of the Baker, Oregon diocese is requiring parishioners involved in parish catechetical and liturgical ministries to assent to an "Affirmation of Personal Faith" or withdraw from ministry. The Affirmation includes a list of a dozen doctrinal statements including teaching on contraception, chastity, homosexuality, marriage, abortion, Mary, hell, purgatory, the Real Presence, and the authority of the church. Many see no room for individual conscience and the regulation has polarized Catholics in the diocese. In one parish over 24 people withdrew from ministry rather than give their assent. Fr. James Coriden, a canon lawyer at Washington Theological Union found it to be "unparalleled in our day to ask for statements of personal faith of such length, detail and complexity...what is odd here is the long list and odd selection of truths or affirmations." Paul Dean, a youth minister offered to affirm the Nicene Creed instead because "My personal conscience will not allow me to affirm a document that does not accurately reflect the totality of church teaching on moral decision-making and forming one's personal conscience." Dean's situation is still unresolved. (National Catholic Reporter, p. 13 July 2, 2004) Another early action of the new Pope Benedict was to have the fairly Liberal Jesuit editor of the magazine America removed from that post. "After the election of Pope Benedict XVI, (the Catholic magazine) America ran an editorial that said: "A church that cannot openly discuss issues is a church retreating into an intellectual ghetto." The order to dismiss the editor, the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, was issued by the Vatican's office of doctrinal enforcement - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - in mid-March when that office was still headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. (But it didn't take effect until the month followng the election.) In recent years America has featured articles representing more than one side on sensitive issues like same-sex marriage, relations with Islam and whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be given communion. Church officials said it was the publication of some of these articles that prompted Vatican scrutiny. Catholic scholars and writers said in interviews yesterday that they feared that the dismissal of such a highly visible Catholic commentator was intended by the Vatican as a signal that debating church teaching is outside the bounds. Some Jesuits said that within the last two years they had received spoken or written warnings from then-Cardinal Ratzinger's office about articles or books they had published." from Vatican Is Said to Force Jesuit Off Magazine By Laurie Goodstein Published: May 7, 2005 in the N.Y. Times. According to the famous American writer, Father Andrew Greely, writing for http://www.beliefnet.com/story/106/story_10626_1.html , "As I read the recent comments of Vatican apparatchiks about the sex abuse crisis in this country, I wonder whether they are trying to destroy Catholicism in America or themselves. Do you know that the most important building in North America is? At http://www.stas.org/whoweare/stas.shtml, the official web site of a little known Catholic Seminary which was dedicated on October 8, 1988 we are given the answer. According to the visiting megalomaniac Superior General of the Dominican Order, Fr. Franz Schmidberger, it is this St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, Wisc. The following is a summary of a lengthy interview published in one of the largest Spanish daily papers, "El Paris," on November 7, 1984." In Latin America the crisis is due, according to Ratzinger, to "Marxist influences," and affirms that dialogue with the liberation theologians is impossible since "they accept as fact the illusionary goal of utilizing the class struggle as a means of achieving reforms and eliminating misery and injustice." In Europe and the United States, the crisis lies in "permissive morality" and blames North American theologians, "who have not been capable of defending Catholic ethics as being reasonable."
Pope John Paul II condemns "neoliberalism" in Ecclesia in America, as social sin that cries to heaven by Louise and Mark Zwick "More and more, in many countries of America, a system known as "neoliberalism" prevails; based on a purely economic conception of the human person, this system considers profit and the law of the market as its only parameters, to the detriment of the dignity of and the respect due to individuals and peoples. At times this system has become the ideological justification for certain attitudes and behavior in the social and political spheres leading to the neglect of the weaker members of society. Indeed, the poor are becoming ever more numerous, victims of specific policies and structures which are often unjust." [from Ecclesia in America (No. 56), Report of the Synod of America] WHAT IS NEOLIBERALISM? Neoliberalism is known in the United States as neoconservatism. Its Catholic proponents are Fr. John Neuhaus, George Weigel, Michael Novak and Fr. Robert Sirico. Their publications are available through the American Enterprise Institue, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Acton Institute and First Things magazine. 1. The ideology of the Invisible Hand of the Market. The authority of the market is unchallenged. For many it is higher than God--an 'idolatry of the market' (Centesimus Annus, n.40). 2. Slave wages and unsafe working conditions in poor countries in maquiladoras (factories which belong to companies in the U.S. or other highly developed countries) and in some parts of the United States. 3. It is amazing that "free market" proponents are opposed to big government, but depend on the governments of wealthy nations for their protection in reaping enormous profits at the expense of the poor. Rather than laissez-faire, it is government- supported capitalism for the few. 4. Privatization of all public and state-owned enterprises. 5. Control of women's reproduction by companies, especially maquiladoras. Proof of no pregnancy frequently required. 6. Tax free zones (no help for the local community) and blackballing of union organizers wherever there are maquiladoras-arranged by the U. S. government. 7. Harsh austerity programs (Structural Adjustment) imposed on poor countries related to repayment of irresponsible loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. 8. A World Trade Organization controlled by rich nations to the detriment of poorer ones. A "Group of Eight" well-to-do countries whose representatives meet regularly to plan the world economy. 9. Enormous transnational companies and trade agreements which destroy small businesses. 10. Agribusinesses, operating on a huge scale, which make it im-possible for small farmers to succeed in any country. Large companies patent seeds and plants, which have been developed for centuries by indigenous peoples, stealing them from the poor of the earth. 11. Huge discrepancies between CEO's making millions of dollars and the salaries of their workers in the United States, as well as in maquiladoras. (A Wal-Mart clerk would have to work 312 years to match the 1997 pay of the Wal-Mart CEO). 12. Government economic policies separated from the common good, making the defeat of inflation the goal above all other economic goals (e.g., Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department). A Catholic neoconservative has stated publicly that slave wages must be paid in poor countries in order to keep down inflation. 13. In neoliberalism the realization of social and ethical ideals is only in the response of the individual. It frees the state from any social and ethical responsibility. Thus, social policy is not necessary. 14. Neoliberalism is a cousin, maybe a first cousin of social Darwinism, where the fittest dictate all and take all. 15. Solidarity is out. Those who make money easily in this system with government support disavow the needy, deny funds for social needs, and blame the poor or their character or culture for their lack of material goods. Those who receive large stock bonuses often forget the worker who produced them. 16. Pernicious consumerist materialism promoted by advertising, even in poor, developing countries. 17. Neoliberalists/neoconservatives declare that the only alternatives to their policies are socialism or Communism. Not true! There are other ways! (e.g., Jeff Gates, The Ownership Solution, Addison Wesley, 1998. Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XIX, No. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1999.
"When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil." --Gary Potter, president of Catholics for Christian Political Action |
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After the Zapatista uprising in 1994, Bishop Samuel Ruiz received international recognition when he was accepted as the mediator between the Mexican government and the Zapatista Liberation Assembly. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s. "In 1993 Mexico's conservative Apostolic Nuncio, Jeronimo Prigione, attempted to remove Ruiz from the San Cristóbal Diocese. Ruiz was defended by two other Mexican bishops, Arizmendi and Bishop Felipe Aguirre Franco of the Diocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez, also located in Chiapas. Arizmendi and Aguirre sent a letter praising Ruiz for his work among the indigenous communities of the diocese (SourceMex, Latin America Data Base, Lat. Am. Institute, UNM, Vol. 11, No. 4, Ap. 12). |
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta Representing initially the most powerful and reactionary segments of the European aristocracy, for nearly a thousand years beginning with the early crusades of the Twelfth Century, it has organized, funded, and led military (& other) operations against states and ideas deemed threatening to its power. It is probably safe to say that the several thousand Knights of S.M.O.M., principally in Europe, North, Central, and South America, comprise the largest most consistently powerful and reactionary membership of any organization in the world today. Although an exclusively [Roman] Catholic organization, in this century it has collaborated with, and given high awards to non-Catholic extremists in its current crusade against progressive forces in the West, the national liberation movements, and the socialist countries. Just a few of its more famous American members : CIA directors William Casey, William Colby and John McCone, President Reagan's Ambassador to the Vatican, William Wilson, James Buckley, William Buckley, Treasury Secretary William Simon, Jeremiah Denton (former Republican senator from Alabama), Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), Lee Iacocca (Ford & Chrysler Corp), Barron Hilton (Hilton Hotels), Clare Booth Luce (a Dame of SMOM),Father Bruce Ritter (founder and former director of Covenant House, Alexander Haig,, and J. Peter Grace, who is not only the President of W.R. Grace Company, but also the President of the American Eastern Association of S.M.O.M. As such, J. Peter Grace was a key figure in "Operation Paperclip", which brought 900 German scientists to the U.S. John Raskob, a high ranking member of the Catholic Knights of Malta, had been chairman of the Democratic Party before F.D.R. and joined the attempted coup against President Roosevelt. Franz von Papen: A leading figure in Hitler's coming to power was S.M.O.M. Franz von Papen, known as "the devil in a top hat." A devout Catholic aristocrat from an old family of Westphalian nobility, a former military attaché and spy against the United States in 1915, Von Papen became Chancellor in May 1932, with the support of the Nazis. In June he ordered the dissolution of the Reichstag, calling for new elections in July, in which the Nazis emerged as the largest party in the new Reichstag. After a meeting with Hitler, von Papen persuaded President von Hindenberg to offer Hitler the Chancellorship, which he assumed on January 30, 1933. Von Papen became his Vice-Chancellor. In April 1933 von Papen was elevated to Knight Magistral Grand Cross of S.M.O.M.. It was Vice-Chancellor Papen who represented the NAZI Reich in negotiating the infamous Concordat of 1933 with the Vatican, represented by Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pius XII. ( This is one of the reasons that John Cornwell called his book about Pius XII "Hitler's Pope". See www.CatholicArrogance.Org/RCscandal ) For more on this topic see: Group Watch at Vox News & Knights of Malta
In January 1997, "Jim" Nicholson, whom George W. Bush made his U.S. Ambassador the Holy See, was elected Chairman of the Republican National Committee . . . In his first year as Chairman, he broke all party records for fundraising, helping to win the stunning series of 1997 election victories now known as the Republican "Clean Sweep". . . Under Nicholson, the Republican Party won the Presidency, the Congress, a majority of Governorships, and state legislatures, a feat not done by Republicans in nearly fifty years. Notes from http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/new/incathcircles/iccbottompg2vol7no4.htm :
Younger Priests Less Liberal, At Odds with Older Priests R. C. Church vs. Modernism In the early 1900's the Catholic authorities used to distinguish between the two parts of the church the "ecclesia docens" and the "ecclesia discens" meaning those who were teachers in the church and those who were learners. (see p. 110 of a great online book at Roman Catholicism And Modern Science: A History , (authored by a Catholic scientist named Don O'Leary and published in Great Britain in 2006). U.S. Catholic newspaper, The National Catholic Reporter, published a list of 24 prominent theologians and others who had been silenced or subjected to various forms of papal discipline under Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger. The list includes such names as: Fr. Hans Küng, Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, Fr. Charles Curran, Leonardo Boff, Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Fr. Karl Rahner, Fr. Matthew Fox, a sister of Mercy Mary Agnes Mansour, the former archbishop of Seattle Raymond Hunthausen, Fr. Robert Nugent and Sr. Jeannine Gramick who ministered to homosexuals, a Brazilian Sister of Notre Dame Ivone Gebara and several others. "Other American members or cooperators include the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Roberts, noted attorney Mary Ann Glendon, Judge Bork and his wife Mary Ellen, former US Solicitor General Ted Olson, Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza), Robert Novak, and of course, possibly Senator Rick Santorum--many of whom are connected with both the Project for the New American Century as well as the Institute on Religion and Democracy, two groups with very far right political agendas. " [ http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/16/201710/016 ] Other powerful ultra-conservative Catholics in the U.S.A. (whose possible connection to secret societies is unknown to me :) : Brent Bozell III, Pat & Baye Buchanon, Allan Keyes, Andrew Sullivan, Brent Bozell III, Pat Buchanan, Baye Buchanan, Bill Bennett, Bill O'Reilly (has his own TV & radio shows), Glen Beck (ex-Catholic, now atheist or Mormon?), Robert Novak, Phyllis Schlafly, Michelle Malkin, David Keene, Richard Viguerie,Kate O'Beirne, Terry Jeffries, Sean Hannity (ex-seminarian, has his own TV show), Kelly Anne Fitzpatrick, Mary Matlin, John McLaughlin, (has his own TV show), Robert Bork, Mrs. Robert (Mary Ellen) Bork, Michael Novak, Fr. Richard Neuhaus, William A. Donohue, Dinesh D'Souza , George Weigel. Recently deceased: Cal Thomas, Paul Weyrich, Tony Snow (spokesman for G.W.Bush White House), d "Cardinal Ratzinger also shared John Paul II’s low opinion of American liberalism, and Western liberalism in general. In a 1984 interview, he suggested that being rich is a measure of one’s worth in North America and “the values and style of life proposed by [American] Catholics appear more than ever as a scandal.”" [ http://www.bloggernews.net/116700 ] |
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