NEWS RELEASE: POPE’S BURIAL ENDS THE LULL—STORM COMING ["the Left is ready to explode"]

CatholicLeague.Org ^ | April 8, 2005 | William Donohue

[fight_truth_decay]

Catholic League president William Donohue remarked as follows:

“The storm is about to hit. For the most part, anti-Catholic bigots and the disaffected dissidents within the Church have been quiet. What they have been waiting for is about to happen: the week between the end of the mourning and the beginning of the conclave is upon us. And that means the Left is ready to explode.

“Consider what we’ve heard already. Amidst the mostly favorable coverage by the media of Pope John Paul II, he has been branded as follows: an authoritarian who seeks to silence dissent; the enemy of homosexuals; a misogynist; a polarizing figure; a man who is out of touch with the modern world; a contributor to death due to AIDS in Africa; responsible for the sexual abuse scandal; and so on.

“And we’ve heard a CBS newsperson blast the pope for ruling the Church with ‘an iron fist’ (this was said between the final four basketball games on Saturday); the Jewish Forward said whatever good he did may be undermined by his ‘battles around the world for sexual repressiveness and against reproductive freedom’; the Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis posted a sign on its property saying, ‘ALL WELCOME, CHRIST IS ALIVE, THE POPE IS DEAD’; the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust commented on ‘the spectacle of grotesquerie and human ruin that has lately filled the balcony above St. Peter’s Square’; Christopher Hitchens said he was ‘part of the coverup and obstruction of justice’ attendant to the homosexual scandal; Sister Helen Prejean, who is soft on abortion, took him to task for not changing his mind soon enough on capital punishment (and in doing so managed to misrepresent his pronouncements on the subject—the pope never said it was an intrinsic evil like abortion); and a website called ‘HillaryNow,’ operated by Robert Kunst, said that when the pope went to Israel, he ordered an ambulance to follow him so that in the event he needed a transfusion, he would not have to access ‘Jewish blood.’

“But this is nothing. Many have been waiting for this moment for more than a quarter century. When they lose again, watch out.”

[NYer]

The true testimony of this great pope's work is what the world witnessed over this past week - millions of faithful streaming into the Vatican. The MSM still believe they can manipulate and control through their privileged news anchor positions. If anything, this week has been an exercise for faithful catholics of media ignorance. Katie Kouric talking about NATO planes during the chanting of the Litany of the Saints, is the penultimate insult and slap in the face.

Catholic Ping
Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[eastsider]

the pope has died ... life is good

The joke's on you, Rosie, 'cause Truth is eternal.

[dangus]

I do think that the Vatican did grave harm to the faith by pushing so hard against the Iraq war. (Truthfully, the Pope NEVER explicitly said that the Iraq war was wrong... it was the Curia which persistently misstated him. Yet, the Pope is responsible for them.) Whenever Church leaders speak outside their purview, they weaken their moral authority on the issues which they do have authority on.

The Pope speaks infallible doctrine on matters such as abortion and abstinence. He speaks authoritatively on matters such as birth control, and homosexuality, and anyone who challenges that authority would have to the impossible task of creating valid grounds to challenge it on. He offers mere opinion on issues such as the death penalty and the Iraq war.

[Old Professer]

Tragically, the storm of which the author speaks is not the one that should be advanced: "the pope is dead, long dead lie the pope."

Making the pope in the modern church's image rather than the traditional one only guarantees more turmoil long after the lightning and thunder have subsided.

Admitting the anachronistic nature of the papacy itself would be a real storm and far more beneficial to the advancement of a religion-free society once the skies cleared and reason prevailed.

Or, at least that's what I get from a careful parsing of these post-pope tirades..

[dangus]

>> He is shaking his finger at theologian Ernesto Cardenal for having joined the Sandinista government, <<

AND HE SHOULD!

That a Catholic priest should partake in a Stalinist government is horrific! What foul manner of demon would excuse such an action?

[dangus]

>> But the pope's inability to face the fact that Plan A is not working and that Plan B needs to be considered may ultimately be evaluated as a strategic failure. <<

She wants to bring back the Tridentine mass? *Snicker*

[CincinnatiKid]

Thank You and God Bless You My Fellow Buckeye!

[Smartaleck]

For those who don't like Catholics, don't like the Pope, the Muslims will gladly take you in. LOL

[workerbee]

Re #26 -- you're so right. Sadly enough, my first thoughts when reading this article were "well, heck, I see worse than this almost every day on FR!"

[OPS4]

The truth hurts, so the misfits can ACT UP as usual.
Ops4 God BLess America!

[dennisw]

That ambulance story is wacky and untrue. The guy who wrote it is a gay activist kook I'm familiar with. He's not 100% kook, more like 50%

[rollo tomasi]

The Holy Spirit vs. the culture of decadence.

Seems like some fun times are ahead of us.

[ninenot]

Thanks.

I won't ask WHICH half is kook--it's clear from later posts on him.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I refuse to read anything negative today out of respect for John Paul the Great -- RIP.

[Aquinasfan]

When they lose again, watch out.

That's when the real howling will begin. They've been counting the days since 1978.

[Aquinasfan]

This is why I hate the whole structure of the Catholic church. Way too much power...

"How many divisions does the pope have?" The Church has power, but not earthly power.

[Aquinasfan]

The History Channel (a joint venture of the "yellow journalism" Hearst Corporation, ABC, Inc., and NBC) did a fair job of that last night in the run up to the funeral.

Until they ran with the bogus "Hitler's pope" story. The NY Times on several occassions called the pope's statements against Nazism a lonely voice in the wilderness on several occassions. The chief rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism because he was so impressed by the pope's efforts in defense of the Jews.

[Aquinasfan]

I heard somebody the other day, it might have been Donohue, talk about how the left has this idea that the College of Cardinals and the Papacy is something like a Roman Catholic Supreme Court that can be pressured, lobbied, massaged, manipulated, twisted, and tortured until eventually somebody comes along who will give them what they want. What they fail to understand is that these are matters of decided church doctrine and are not subject to revision or revisitation, overturning or overthrowing. They are what they are and the Pope has no power to change what has been decided in times past.

Bingo. They just don't get it.

[Aquinasfan]

Perhaps an inquisition, though they have to find a nicer sounding name.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 8-)

[Calpernia]

bump!