BREAKING: Leaked e-mails show George Soros paid $650K to influence bishops during Pope’s US visit

LifeSiteNews.Com ^ | 24 August 2016 | John-Henry Westen

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August 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Leaked emails through WikiLeaks reveal that billionaire globalist George Soros - one of Hilary Clinton's top donors - paid $650,000 to influence Pope Francis’ September 2015 visit to the USA with a view to "shift[ing] national paradigms and priorities in the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign." The funds were allocated in April 2015 and the report on their effectiveness suggests that successful achievements included, “Buy-in of individual bishops to more publicly voice support of economic and racial justice messages in order to begin to create a critical mass of bishops who are aligned with the Pope.”

The monies were granted to two US entities that have been engaged in a long-term project, according to the report, of shifting “the priorities of the US Catholic church.” Grantees were PICO, a faith-based community organizing group, and Faith in Public Life (FPL), a progressive group working in media to promote left-leaning ‘social justice’ causes. Soros has funded left-wing causes the world over and was just found to have been funding an effort to eliminate pro-life laws around the globe.

Board Minutes from the May 2015 meeting of Soros’ Open Society Foundation in New York reveal that in the planning stages of the papal visit initiative, the group planned to work through one of the Pope’s key advisors, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, naming him specifically in the report. In order to seize on the opportunity provided by the Pope’s visit to the US, says the report, “we will support PICO’s organizing activities to engage the Pope on economic and racial justice issues, including using the influence of Cardinal Rodriguez, the Pope’s senior advisor, and sending a delegation to visit the Vatican in the spring or summer to allow him to hear directly from low-income Catholics in America.”

In 2013 Cardinal Rodriguez endorsed PICO's work in a video during a visit from PICO representatives to the cardinal's diocese. "I want to endorse all the efforts they are doing to promote communities of faith," he said, "... Please, keep helping PICO."

The post operative report on the funding to influence the papal visit comes in the 2016 report entitled, Review Of 2015 U.S. Opportunities Fund. The Soros group was pleased with the result of their campaign and saw statements by various bishops against presidental candidates who are using "fearmongering" - likely a reference to the GOP lineup, and perhaps Trump specifically - as one outcome of their efforts. “The impact of this work and the relationships it has fostered can be seen in the broad range of religious leaders hitting pointedly back at presidential candidates for their use of fearmongering,” the report said.

Additionally, the summary report says their funding was helpful to counter “anti-gay rhetoric” in the media. The “efficacy of the media campaign can be seen in the team’s ability to react to and counter the anti-gay rhetoric following the Kim Davis story (the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for defying a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples whom the Pope visited),” the report states.

The grant specifically targeted the ‘pro-family’ agenda, redirecting it from defending marriage to being concerned with income equality. “FPL’s media, framing, and public opinion activities, including conducting a poll to demonstrate that Catholic voters are responsive to the Pope’s focus on income inequality, and earning media coverage that drives the message that being ‘pro-family’ requires addressing growing inequality,” says the May report.

Attorney Elizabeth Yore, who served on the Heartland Institute Delegation that traveled to the Vatican in April 2015 to urge Pope Francis to re-examine his reliance on UN population control proponents who promote climate change, spoke to LifeSiteNews about the Soros initiative. “Catholics serve as a huge and influential voting block in the U.S. election,” she said. Soros, she said, is “using the head of the Catholic Church to influence this key voting block,” with the “bully pulpit of the papacy” to ensure Hilary Clinton’s election.

Yore pointed out “this is not the first time that the unholy alliance of Soros and the Vatican successfully collaborated on a political project.” In 2015, she recalled, “the Soros operatives, embedded in the Vatican, directed Pope Francis’ Environmental Agenda, by delivering for Soros and the UN, an Apostolic Exhortation on Climate Change, and a prized papal endorsement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Pope’s apostolic blessing on the Paris Climate Treaty.”

In terms of the Soros goal of shifting the priorities of the Catholic Church away from moral absolutes, two US bishops stand out as champions of the move. San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has repeatedly stressed changing the Church’s priorities and has had the backing of Pope Francis’ ‘favored son,’ Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich. McElroy created a furor at the U.S. Bishops Conference meeting last November over his attempt to change a document instructing Catholics on how to vote.

McElroy made a pointed argument that the document was out of step with Pope Francis’ priorities -- specifically, by putting too much emphasis on abortion and euthanasia, and not enough on poverty and the environment. Cupich later praised McElroy’s intervention as a “real high moment” for the conference and supported the move to put degradation of the environment and global poverty on par with abortion and euthanasia.

Concluding their report reflecting on the success of the grant to influence the papal visit, the Soros group was very pleased with the results. Looking to the future, they are excited that the long-term goal of shifting the priorities of the Catholic Bishops in the United States “is now underway.”

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[nobamanomore]

There always has been and always will be corrupt individuals in every church. It shouldn’t reflect on the Church as a whole.

Whether what the article says is true, may or may not be correct.

[Rennes Templar]

Excellent...

[Red Badger]

They are both palindromes.............

[SpaceBar]

How many pieces of silver does that work out to?

[Just mythoughts]

The Catholic Bishops have an informative website. Want to know who Boehner and lying Ryan work for, just check out the Catholic Bishop's website. They are communists!!!

[Just mythoughts]

Hey, lying Ryan has no problem using our tax dollars to do the churches bidding. Wake up!!!

[amorphous]

30, k

[DuncanWaring]

Even if he were to be “dealt with”, he has offspring who would pick up where he left off.

Ridding ourselves of him and his bile will require a Cleansing, Old Testament in scope and nature.

[tophat9000]

The Whore of Babylon ...how do you describe it any other way

[DoughtyOne]

George Sorsos and Hillary Clinton

The reasons there shouldn't be any prosecutions in the United States for anything.  If these two are clean, everyone is.

What a revolting situation.


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[MarMema]

hearing ya. This is why they say ignorance is bliss.

[Freedom56v2]

Given some of the mainline protestant denominations’ embrace of immigration, I suspect they have received buckets of money too—just haven’t found that email yet :(

[AppyPappy]

Power is an unquenchable thirst

[HiTech RedNeck]

This sum somehow sounds rather “little” given the number of bishops that would need to be bribed in this fashion.

There are places where the Roman church is in even worse shape, though. Try the Philippines. It’s the predominant Christian denomination there. There’s so little support for integrity there, however, that a fellow like Duterte, going after a scapegoat by means of unaccountable murders, gets the cheers of most of the people. They aren’t even THINKING of the end game, but of the spectacle.

We might think honesty is something inborn. No it is not. It is something that is learned by the acceptance of the approach of God. And if the salt is slacking off on being salty, there’s nothing left to salt with.

[Jaded]

Nope, but it was an awfully cheap purchase.

[Beagle8U]

“There always has been and always will be corrupt individuals in every church. It shouldn’t reflect on the Church as a whole.”

Even if the pope is OK with it?

[hal ogen]

That the bishops took the money in the first place says something about their integrity and ethics.

[nobamanomore]

He’s still just a human and a sinner like me and you. It always is humorous to me that protestants point to things the leader of the church says, but don’t even know the name of the leader of the Baptists, etc.

They paint all Catholics with a broad brush and ignore the likes of the WEstboro Baptist Church, etc. There are good and bad in every organization. Hard to imagine, but some bad ones are even in our govt.

[Crolis]

That’s what I’d like to know. Has he done something to screw with Russia yet? I’m sure they would find a way to deal with him.