“So the pope’s fault, then, is that he has not the viciously anti-Christian American press posted the wrong pictures?”
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Not his “fault”, but don’t you think that the Vatican should take into account the proclivities of the vile, anti-Catholic media?
To devout, engaged Catholics, hammering Pelosi publicly may seem like killing a gnat with a sledgehammer, but as I have stated repeatedly, the public at large, including the casual Catholic laity, apparently needs it plainly spelled out for them.
The huge Catholic support for Obama in the past election should make it quite clear that the message of what it means to be Catholic, is not getting across via such subtle measures as the private, closed-door rebuke of a pro-abortion “Catholic” American politician.
Pope Pius XI wrote his encyclical on Atheistic Communism in the 1930’s, in which he basically said that the press would be in collusion with marxist/socialist movements.
Interestingly enough, he also mentioned the coming impact of feminist movements on culture and family life.
The press is working hand-in-glove with this President.
As practicing Caholics we have very little to gain by constantly hammering away at the Pope. Let’s make the object of our concern the power of a press that is all to ready to hear and promote any dissatisfaction with the Pope, regardless of who is spreading it.