Posted on 04/07/2005 1:35:08 PM PDT by Coleus
It's just one of those articles where you laugh and just roll your eyes. I knew sooner or later the frustrated liberals in the press trying to be activists instead of reporters and the liberal lay community would start trying to push groups like Call to Action and the Voice of the Faithful which used the scandal as an impetus for the liberal Catholics in the group to push their hidden, Marxist, liberation-theology agenda.
The liberals in the Church and the Press still can not get over their loss in the presidential election and are now hedging towards a John-Kerry like Pope, pushing for one of the more-liberal South American Cardinals to be named a pope ignoring the Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze and other more traditional Cardinals. What they don't know is that even if a liberal cardinal was named, he may speak ill of capitalism but he will not acquiesce with the traditional tenets of the church: abortion, embryonic stem cells, population control, birth control, euthanasia and gay marriage.
The reporters, as usual, failed to note that Call to Action members can be excommunicated and I think some were in Nebraska.
And I have to laugh that the reporters found a democrat, catholic politician who claimed to be a self-described "conservative" Catholic and asked this person questions that the liberals want to hear. The Pope isn't buried and yet they can't keep out their liberal agendas and mouths shut while the world mourns. Shame on all of them.
Imagine, a Pope being authoritarian...What's Catholicism coming to?
I'll point out that every time there is a poll of the "majority of American Catholics" they never say whether their sample achieves the minimum level of Catholicity: (1) Do you attend Sunday Mass regularly and (2) If you are married, are you married in the Church?
"...polls show..."
My favorite. Polls are a bunch of horse manure and all the arguments that are backed by "polls show" are bunk.
lol!!!! greatest pic ever.
A quick google shows she is a democrat, what a shock!!!!
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Obviously any person in public life in any kind of leadership role will have critics. I'm not Catholic so I don't know as much about the internal church doctrines and so forth, but one thing about this article and others like it is clear: The media couldn't wait to start pointing out the Pope's critics, as though the very existence of critics proves their criticisms well-founded. I also saw that Bill Clinton said that the Pope has a "mixed legacy" just like "many of us." That's just a case of him wanting company and wanting to once again try to whitewash and sugarcoat his own deeds as though he can be mentioned in the same category as the Pope.
Man.
They can't even wait til he's buried.
Disgraceful.
The Pope, should have handled the molestation fiasco with more authority than he did. He, in some ways , protected these vile animals that abused innocent children, by allowing them too be sent too other Parishes without telling anyone what they had done. This is unbearable, and I will never back down on this issue. I do understand also that we all sin and do wrong, so I am no better than anyone else. I must therefore forgive the Pope for his inactions and I never wished him any malice, he did a great many things. Be well Your Holiness, may your soul find rest in the next realm of life.
Jeff
I haven't seen an article on this, but did anyone see Fonda on Larry King last night where she said that the first thing Ted Turner told her on the first date they went on was that he had lots of friends that were communists, that he was a supporter of Castro and visited Cuba several times and she said she found it so endearing?
I mean come on, how is this not front page news?
Jesus Christ had his critics as well.
If Cardinal Arinze is elected to be the next Pope I wonder how long it will be before the Libs call him an Uncle Tom?
I heard Bill Donahue on Hannity the other day. He said to expect this and far worse.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was mentioned prior to the conclave, in a rhetorical preemptive strike.
Liberals. If you don't believe what the Church teaches then go form your own church just like the gazillion protestant sects did.
Pedastery cases shrank more than 90% between 1981 and 1994, before the press even got wind of the problem. The incidence rate was lower in 1994 than in the 1950s -- and that 1950s rate is probably only as low as it was because most of those pederasts are dead now, so there is no-one to accuse.
What you perceive of as inaction was apparently very effective subtlety. But there was nothing subtle about his condemnation of such abuses when he came to America in 1996 and publicly eviscerated the American episcopacy for tolerating abuse.
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