Posted on 10/12/2016 6:47:37 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief helped to create campaign groups to press for a “revolution” in the Catholic Church, according to leaked emails.
John Podesta, head of Clinton’s campaign, says he helped to found two Catholic organisations to press for change in the Church.
In emails from 2011 released by Wikileaks and alleged to be by Podesta, he responds to an email from Barack Obama’s friend and former boss, Sandy Newman, about an “opening for a Catholic Spring”.
Newman suggests that “Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.” Newman refers to this as planting the “seeds of a revolution”.
Podesta replies: “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up.”
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded by Tom Periello in 2005. Its chairman is Fred Rotondaro. Both Rotondaro and Periello are senior fellows at the Centre for American Progress, founded by Podesta.
Rotondaro has called for the ordination of women, saying: “I have never seen any rational reason why a woman could not be a priest.” In the same article he says that “Gay sex comes from God”, and asks whether “any practicing Catholic under age 80” agrees with the Church’s teaching on contraception.
Critics have described CACG as a “Trojan Horse” for those who would undermine Church teaching. But its connections to senior figures in the Democrat party, and its intent to change the Church, have not previously been so clear.
Catholics United was also founded in 2005, by Democrat activists Chris Korzen and James Salt.
Catholics United has condemned bishops who deny Communion to politicians who support legal abortion. It describes this as “a shameful attempt to use the Catholic sacrament of Communion as a political weapon”.
Catholic writer Thomas Peters tweeted that the revelations showed CACG and other organisations were engaged in “deception” and that it showed Podesta himself had “a very active role”.
Thomas Peters @AmericanPapist 3/ CACG never used phrases like "Middle Ages dictatorship" to describe Catholic teaching ... in public, that is. Deception was and is key. 10:24 PM - 12 Oct 2016
Thomas Peters @AmericanPapist 5/ Podesta was silent in the first leaked email -- in this one it is clear he had a very active, leading role in these efforts as organizer 10:28 PM - 12 Oct 2016
Thomas Peters @AmericanPapist 5/ i've been writing about CACG and CatholicsUnited as fronts for the Dem agenda since at least 2010. @CatholicVote too. We were right. 10:34 PM - 12 Oct 2016
The revelations are the second significant reference to Catholics which Wikileaks has released so far. Elsewhere, Jennifer Palmieri, now Clinton’s director of communications, and John Halpin, a co-author of Podesta’s and a former Democrat strategist, criticise Catholics who are involved in politics.
In the 2011 emails, Halpin writes: “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC [possibly a reference to the Supreme Court] and think tanks to the media and social groups.”
Halpin says the Catholics’ involvement in the American conservative movement means they must have misinterpreted Catholicism’s political tradition. It is, he says, “an amazing bastardization of the faith”.
He goes on to speculate: “They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.”
Palmieri replies: “I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”
Halpin says this is an “Excellent point”, and goes on: “They can throw around ‘Thomistic’ thought and ‘subsidiarity’ and sound sophisticated because no one knows what the hell they’re talking about.”
The exchange was prompted by a New Yorker piece on Rupert Murdoch which observed that both Murdoch and Robert Thomson, then managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, are Catholic.
It becomes even more surreal every day.
Go, Trump, GO!
Damn Traitor!!!
If only this information would find its way into a homily or diocese newspaper somewhere, but I’m not holding my breath.
This Ryan’s on ramp back on to the Trump Train. I really hope he takes it for the good of the country.
I bet you won’t find any emails critical of islam.
This looks like a good old school commie front group. More evidence we have marxists running the Democrat party.
The precedent that the Court has the right to overturn a law passed by the Legislature and signed by the President rests on Marbury v. Madison and claims that right solely on the basis of the "fact" that judges were expected to apply the words of a written document according to the original meaning of the words. That is, based on what the words meant at the time the law was enacted, not redefinitions or current usage.
Given the fact that Griswold v. Connecticut overturned the Comstock Laws based not on applying the words of a written document but rather on the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other Constitutional protections, the only thing that will actually protect any of us from anything the government wants to do is to have Marbury v. Madison overturned and judges on the bench who make decisions based on the written word of laws and the written words of the Constitution..
That means not just Justices on the Supreme Court, but at a minimum, all Federal Judges.
There are steps we have to take if we want to retain and recover our rights and making sure we end the parade of liberal USSC Justices is without a doubt one of those steps. But there's no magic bullet.
People have to get involved, become a LOT more knowledgeable about how their rights have been eroded, and act accordingly as if they're Citizens of the United States rather than continuing to just sit and simmer in the stew of distractions served up for them by the same machine that has been taking away our rights.
The foundations of the theft of our rights needs to be destroyed, not just the current crop of scum building on that foundation.
A giant step towards destroying those foundations is to repeal the 17th. Amendment.
JMHo
(Wikipedia): Biographers in the 1990s examined Black's views of religious denominations. Ball found regarding the Klan that Black "sympathized with the group's economic, nativist, and anti-Catholic beliefs."[17] Newman said Black "disliked the Catholic Church as an institution" and gave numerous anti-Catholic speeches in his 1926 election campaign to Ku Klux Klan meetings across Alabama...
I read somewhere that they were talking about it on EWTN today. But cannot verify.
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