Posted on 10/29/2009 6:18:03 AM PDT by NYer
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Last Friday on the Washington Post blog, “On Faith,” English atheist Richard Dawkins said the Catholic Church was “surely up there among the leaders” as “the greatest force for evil in the world.” He labeled the Eucharist a “cannibal feast,” adding that “possession of testicles is an essential qualification to perform the rite.” He also blamed the Church for sending missionaries “out to tell deliberate lies to AIDS-weakened Africans” regarding condoms. The Church’s outreach to Anglicans, he said, makes it “a common pimp,” noting that those who convert “will be joining an institution where buggering altar boys pervades the culture.”
On Saturday, a Los Angeles Times editorial said that “church leaders, including popes, have changed their thinking over the years about everything from usury to the culpability of Jews for the Crucifixion….” It concluded, “You don’t have to be Catholic (or Anglican) to realize that society as a whole would be better off if the church’s views of women and gays underwent a similar evolution.”
On Sunday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recalled that when she was in grade school, “Nuns were second-class citizens then and–40 years after feminism utterly changed America—they still are.” She called Pope Benedict XVI the “uber-conservative pope,” a.k.a. “God’s Rottweiler,” who was once “a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth.” She also accused the Church of enabling “rampant pedophilia.”
On Monday, James Carroll in the Boston Globe called the outreach to Anglicans “a cruel assault,” “an insult to loyal Catholic liberals” and “a slap at women and homosexuals.” He characterized the outreach as a “preemptive exploitation of Anglican distress.”
These deranged comments—all voiced in America’s premier newspapers—demonstrate that anti-Catholicism is the most virulent expression of bigotry in the U.S. It also shows why these newspapers, quite unlike the Catholic Church, are dying. As for the writers, they need to go to church. Either that or check into an asylum.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
These people are worthy of nothing more than pity and prayer.
I never understood why these gay rights/pro-abortion/”social justice” CINO’s just don’t be come Episcopalian.
They are all so jealous. I love it!
The libs behind the "major newspapers" realize that they are neither "major" or "news" any longer. Stop the trees from being cut for this liberal garbage.
Newspapers are fading fast. It's all online, my friends.
The Catholic Church? God founded it. It will be around until the end of time. People won't even recall (hopefully) what "newspapers" were at that point in time. Newspapers? Oh yeah.........that tripe that used to cost a quarter, but now 2 bucks; the print that no one buys anymore. Yes.
Buchanan has been proven right more often than not, but electability trumps principals every time. Go figure.
Not so simple. After the Council many of our priests, religious, and even bishops sought to break with the past, or rather decided that “modernism” was the truth. And it started before that. During the 18th Century many of our clergy had converted to liberalism. In the Austrian Empire the Emperor Joseph had sought to impose”reform” on the Church in his land. Many clerics took prominent roles in the French Revolution, and took part in a “nationalization” of the Church in France. Among them was Talleyrand, a bishop, who abandoned his call to become a leading member of the Directory and afterwards foreign minister for Napoleon.
In our own country toward the end of the 19th century, the “Americanists” sought to change the Church to conform more with our democratic ideals, and to resent Roman control. In Europe the modernists sought to liberalize theology, only to be suppressed by Pope Pius X. There were modernists here, and after the Council they seized their opportunity and imposed radical reforms on a laity that was not exactly crying out for reform. Except on one issue: birth control. The issue of human reproduction has done to alienate the church from the modern world than almost anything else, and it is directly related to the most important difference. That is the conviction of the world that nothing exists apart from it, or that if there is, then nothing that cares about the affairs of men. The majority of Catholics are torn between this view and the vierw of th Church. They don’t want to abandon the Church but they compartmentalize what it teaches. They desperately want to “fit in.” and to fit in they must agree that having children—or “Too Many” children—is an insufferable burden.
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