Anti-Catholicism, Again

Weekly Standard ^ | May 3, 2010 | JOSEPH BOTTUM

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[NYer]

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[trisham]

Our beloved Pope Benedict needs and deserves our prayers. He has been called upon to shoulder an inhuman burden, and while I have no doubt that his spirit is up to the task, he is no longer young. May God bless and protect him.

[Jacquerie]

The self-denominated New Atheists—Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and the rest—have latched on, as well. The pope “should be in a police station being quizzed about his role in covering up and thereby enabling the rape of children

I have not heard similar calls from these two righteous moralists for the prosecution of all Nambla members.

[Salvation]

**The best sign of such hysterical moments may be the difficulty of anything sane or sensible being heard in them. As Newsweek noted on April 8, the surveys and studies over the past 30 years show “little reason to conclude that sexual abuse is mostly a Catholic issue.” **

So true. I wondered about this article as it began, but changed my mind. (Weekly Standard? Hmmm. I thought.)

[Salvation]

Media ping!

**Several Catholic commentators have charged that the European and American press is out to destroy the Church. “The New York Times is conducting a vendetta against this traditionalist pope in news stories, editorials and columns,” Pat Buchanan announced in a column on April 6. But this, too, only adds to the hysteria. For all the journalistic sins that have been committed in recent weeks, what the media primarily want is a story to sell—and since the narrative of hypocrisy remains nearly the only moral shape a modern newspaper story can have, a tale of immoral clergy is ready-made for reporters. **

[Oratam]

Twenty years ago, a well educated friend told me straight-faced “the Catholic Church is responsible for all the problems in the world.” I’m still trying to figure out what exactly he meant.

[SumProVita]

Your “well-educated” friend is a perfect example of the famous quotation by Bishop Fulton Sheen,

“There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church.”

[353FMG]

“...and his entrails used to strangle the last king, as Voltaire demanded.

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What people do not know is that Voltaire howled in agony for a priest to visit his deathbed. A priest did hear his confession before Voltaire died. He had a big mouth in life but was scared sh*tless when he was dying.

Hmmm, somehow old Voltaire did not forget the things he was taught in his youth.

[NYer]

Our beloved Pope Benedict needs and deserves our prayers. He has been called upon to shoulder an inhuman burden, and while I have no doubt that his spirit is up to the task, he is no longer young.

What a huge burden on his shoulders. What a tremendous personal sacrifice to accept this burden. It has been only 5 years yet the words he spoke from the balcony on the day of his election, still ring in my ears.

"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all, I entrust myself to your prayers."

He needs our daily prayers!

[trisham]

He needs our daily prayers!

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I could not agree more! Imho, our beloved Pope Benedict is a saint.

[NYer]

I have not heard similar calls from these two righteous moralists for the prosecution of all Nambla members.

... or educators, camp counselors, non-Catholic ministers, rabbis, imams and the list goes on and on. There is plenty of guilt to go around!

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[NoLibZone]

The poet Peter Viereck’s famous line—“Catholic-baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals”

[al_c]

“a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 64 percent” of Americans “thought Catholic priests ‘frequently’ abused children.”

Yeah ... because those people believe listen to the WSJ and NBC rant and rave about this issue making it sound like every priest is a molester.

A poll released on April 13 this year found that between 8 and 11 percent of Canadians say they know personally a victim of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest

And how many people are out there that say they've seen a UFO or have been abducted?

Our faith is under lots of attacks this year ... more often that I can remember.

[vladimir998]

“... the Irish government’s official commission spent 10 years, from 1999 to 2009, intensively inviting, from Irish-born people around the world, reports of abuse at Irish religious institutions. Out of the hundreds of thousands of students who passed through Catholic schools in the 85 years from 1914 to 1999, the commission managed to gather 381 claims—with 35 percent of those charges made against lay staff and fellow pupils rather than priests.”

4.4 cases of abuse per year? You mean the world in Ireland is ending because of 4.4 cases A YEAR?

And the cases against religious amount to 2.9 cases a year?

Every case is a case too many, but abuses in the Irish Church were clearly overblown.

[vladimir998]

My godson, before he became a Catholic, bought and read a copy of John Paul II’s Crossing the Threshhold of Hope. He left it on a coffee table one day as a professor he knew came by for dinner. The professor saw the book and said, “Mike, I’m surprised you’re reading that book. I think John Paul II is the most evil man of the 20th century.” My godson told me his mind went reeling: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. . . No, the worst man who lived in the last century was the pope.

Some men are so intensely bigoted that their prejudice actually makes them stupid.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“For almost 500 years now, Catholicism has been an available answer, a mystical key, to that deep, childish, and existentially compelling question: Why aren’t we there yet?”

What a load of ....

Actually, it’s the OPPOSITE. Ask these jackasses who constantly harangue on Christianity and the “dark ages” - just what was Europe like before Christianity?

*crickets*

That’s right, it was nowhere. A bunch of primitive tribes warring each other and living in squalor.

See “Victory of Reason”. http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Reason-Christianity-Freedom-Capitalism/dp/0812972333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272233677&sr=8-1

[Bigg Red]

I join in your prayers for the Holy Father.

[trisham]

May God bless you, FRiend.