Conservative Leaders Demand Apology From Huffington Over Anti-Catholic Column [Mass "Barbaric"]

FoxNews ^ | February 28, 2012

[Steelfish]

Conservative Leaders Demand Apology From Huffington Over Anti-Catholic Column February 28, 2012

A group of socially conservative leaders is demanding Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington apologize for allowing a column to be published on her website that compares Catholics to pedophiles and attacks communion as a "barbaric ritual."

(snip) Letter to Arianna Huffington from Christian and conservative leaders

"Larry Doyle's recent anti-Catholic screed in the Huffington Post, 'The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum,' is bigoted and unacceptable, and a perfect example of 'flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric'" that Huffington pledged to avoid when she launched the Huffington Post in 2005.

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In his so-called satire published Friday, Doyle, a novelist and former writer and producer for "The Simpsons," writes that many readers would be "shocked to learn" about Santorum's religious beliefs, which stem from the church's history in the Crusades "and its current role as the tactical arm" of the fringe North American Man-Boy Love Association.

Santorum, in following orders from the pope, a "former" (Doyle's quotes) Nazi who Catholics believe "chats with God," has made "no secret of his plans to implement his leader's dicta on allowed uses of vaginas and anuses, but has said little about what additional dogma he will be compelled to obey."

Santorum has "remained silent on his religious organization's various reigns of terror, in which good Protestants and others were tortured and killed in imaginatively grisly ways. (snip)

Describing Mass as a "barbaric ritual," Doyle writes that "a black-robed cleric casts a spell over some bread and wine, transfiguring it into the actual living flesh and blood of their Christ. Followers then line up to eat the Jesus meat and drink his holy blood in a cannibalistic reverie not often seen outside Cinemax."

[MrB]

I would say that would answer the question.
Never had any experience with it myself (that I know of).

[ThomasMore]

what’s the official Catholic position on demon possession these days?

It still exists. Satan is alive and well on planet earth! Diabolical possession is probably less frequent than obsession...but I don't follow Hollyweird anymore...so there could be more possession there.

Deacon Francis

[Forgotten Amendments]

He hacked Phil Hendrie.

[redgolum]

I find it funny that those who support chopping up babies for medical experiments find the mass barbaric. I guess if this is civilization I will be the barbarian.

[pbear8]

Never had any experience with it myself (that I know of).

Voting for liberals/progressives is a sure sign of demonic possession.

[NYer]

"If such an article was written concerning the Islamic or Jewish faith, the public outcry would be overwhelming, and rightly so. But anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable form of bigotry, and The Huffington Post is taking advantage of that bigotry for all it's worth,"

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[Gerish]

Perhaps Mr. Doyle does not understand that God will not be mocked. Prayers for his sick and twisted soul.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes. Every rite of Baptism, n fact, includes an exorcism, though in abbreviated form. I recited exorcism prayers just last Monday, outside of an abortion clinic. Satan is real, powerful, personal, and wants to destroy you, me, and everybody you love, body and soul.

BTW, This is an unpaid, apolitical announcement.

[MrB]

One of the tenets of a Biblical Worldview is that Satan is real and a force in this world to contend with.

I was referring specifically to demonic “possession”, and I didn’t know whether possession and exorcism were still recognized in the RCC.

[SumProVita]

May Jesus, the Christ knock down Mr. Doyle as He did with St. Paul and reveal Himself to him.

;-)

(Often the worst bigots can be transformed into really great saints.)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, yes. Every diocese has an official (trained) exorcist for dealing with demonic posession, oppression, and influences. It’s real and it is not trivial.

[Heart-Rest]

"May Jesus, the Christ knock down Mr. Doyle as He did with St. Paul and reveal Himself to him."

;-)

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Amen!

Jesus showed St. Paul so much love by knocking him down and enlightening him like that. It totally changed the course of Saul's/Paul's life, and ended up giving us most of the books of the New Testament.

So I agree with your petition, and so with all the Christian love I can possibly muster for this Doyle at the moment, I would want Jesus to enlighten Doyle even more than he did St. Paul, by picking Doyle up again and knocking him down again a few extra times. (Really enlighten him good.)

:-)

[SuziQ]

"@JesseRimshas It’s satire. It’s showing Santorum what his religion looks like, filtered through his lens of other beliefs."

Somehow I doubt that. Doyle just brings up too many convenient liberal talking points.