Posted on 10/14/2016 6:51:06 AM PDT by daniel1212
A Democratic operative is defending leaked e-mails bashing the “backwards” faith of orthodox Catholics, saying they are not anti-Catholic because most American Catholics disregard Catholic teaching on moral issues, anyway...
Halpin called a traditional, conservative reading of Catholicism “an amazing bastardization of the faith.”
Donald Trump’s campaign responded by demanding the officials be fired...
But Julie Roginsky, a Democratic strategist, told Fox News last night that the e-mails express the authentic voice of American Catholics, who also disdain the authority of the papal Magisterium....
Roginsky cited a host of polling data showing that most American Catholics believe contraception and homosexuality are morally acceptable.
A Pew Research Center poll released this summer shows that more than two-thirds of Catholics approve of the HHS mandate, and 54 percent say the government should force Christian business owners to participate in same-sex ceremonies, even if doing so violates their faith.
“What they’re saying is potentially and actually – actually – in step with what the majority of American Catholics believe,” Roginsky said....
Judie Brown of the American Life League has told LifeSiteNews that prominent Catholic defections on moral issues are “further evidence of the decay that is occurring within the Catholic Church in America.”
“Had the bishops, years ago, enforced church law and made it clear...that public defiance of church teaching would result in denial of the reception of Holy Eucharist until such time as the Catholic in question repents of his sins of defiance, we would not today be hearing of outrages” like these, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
But what path, will folks follow, to get to Jesus in the first place?
Ouch!
Neither side really complains about the Basics of our respective, chosen ways to accomplish this 'trust'; it's just in the details that we squabble over.
Well; they DID do Something!
We Orthodox have what you call “the Gospel of the Dark Ages” (NOT!)—and the true Temple, true Priesthood, and Sacraments that WORK!!!!
Joseph Smith knew NOTHING about the Orthodox Church, because we weren’t here yet back then!!!!
And now y’all are temporizing with the criminal clintons!!! NOT GOOD!!!!
““What they’re saying is potentially and actually – actually – in step with what the majority of American Catholics believe,” Roginsky said....”
That is entirely correct.
Other than us “rednecks,” people don’t seem to be able to understand the concept of an objective external religious truth that we have to conform to, rather than one we create for ourselves.
Good op-ed. Thanks.
Squeaky Tarlov with the ventriloquist mouth.
I’m not passing judgement only only stating fact.
“Apparently, it is being done as an ‘inside job’ with Frank and his new Cardinals.”
Not so much taking it over as championing a split into two factions: Frank’s modernist-liberal-ecumenical-SJW-tolerant faction on the one hand and the Catholics on the other. As hinted at (e.g. bishop against bishop) in Catholic prophecies.
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