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Maureen Dowd’s Catholic Problem
National Review ^ | 6/21/2011 | George Weigel

Posted on 06/21/2011 7:36:06 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

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MoDo ... took anti-Catholic-bitchery-as-commentary to a new low ... Dowdian fundamentalism involves an irrational and empirically unsustainable belief in the sexual revolution.


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1 posted on 06/21/2011 7:36:19 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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To: NYer; Salvation; marshmallow

Catholic ping. Since the title takes care of the MoDo ping.


2 posted on 06/21/2011 7:37:49 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Another Catherine Zeta-Jones thread!


3 posted on 06/21/2011 7:40:26 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Servant of the Cross

Gay marriage is the only shot MoDo has of EVER wearing a bridal gown.


4 posted on 06/21/2011 7:46:55 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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the sexual revolution has been a snare and a delusion for a) women, b) children, c) men, d) marriage, e) family stability, and f) the country’s political culture

This.

Guess it's too long for a tagline, eh?

5 posted on 06/21/2011 7:49:58 AM PDT by alphadoggie
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To: Servant of the Cross
the sexual revolution has been a snare and a delusion for a) women, b) children, c) men, d) marriage, e) family stability, and f) the country’s political culture

This.

Guess it's too long for a tagline, eh?

6 posted on 06/21/2011 7:50:00 AM PDT by alphadoggie
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As a Catholic I’d have to say that the earlier forms of anti-Caholicism were largely of our own making for being so un-Christian towards people like Martin Luther. And because Church leadership kept taking sides in political battles which they often lost.

Dowd’s form is rooted in the raging anger of Libertines that the Church forms one of the last major roadblocks in the way of their George Soros-style “open society”.


7 posted on 06/21/2011 8:10:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“As a Catholic I’d have to say that the earlier forms of anti-Caholicism were largely of our own making...”

Actually, I find this statement to be somewhat exaggerated. As sinful human beings, Catholics (like all humans) have made mistakes and have chosen what is wrong. However, I think the majority of anti-Catholicism comes from another, far more insidious source.


8 posted on 06/21/2011 8:36:10 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Servant of the Cross
As for Maureen Dowd, well, the Light is always on for her, too — as she would discover if she ever took the trouble to get to know men like Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

Archbishop Dolan is a wonderful man, and Mo Do couldn't help but like him, if she gave him half a chance. We miss him in Milwaukee.

9 posted on 06/21/2011 8:40:49 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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You could just use “the sexual revolution has been a snare and a delusion”.


10 posted on 06/21/2011 8:47:48 AM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: Servant of the Cross

If “Catholic” Maureen Dowd is the face of a new form of anti-Catholicism, what does that make Margaret Sanger and Madeline Murray O’Hare? Former and dissatisfied Catholics are always the most virulent anti-Catholic bigots—not to mention the most dangerous.


11 posted on 06/21/2011 8:49:01 AM PDT by Mach9
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” . . . I’d have to say that the earlier forms of anti-Caholicism were largely of our own making for being so un-Christian towards people like Martin Luther. And because Church leadership kept taking sides in political battles which they often lost.”

Whoa . . . if I remember correctly, Martin Luther, among other PROTESTants, took sides against Catholicism. Right or wrong, ecumenically speaking, there’s a DIFFERENCE. If there weren’t, there would be no sides.


12 posted on 06/21/2011 8:55:23 AM PDT by Mach9
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While small pockets of Protestant anti-Catholicism can still be found in the fever swamps of the contemporary American religious world,...

Like here, on FR.

13 posted on 06/21/2011 9:10:55 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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"As a Catholic I’d have to say that the earlier forms of anti-Caholicism were largely of our own making for being so un-Christian towards people like Martin Luther"
WRONG.....
14 posted on 06/21/2011 9:18:53 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: Mach9

Whoa....and if I remember my history correctly, Martin Luther did not chose sides, he stood on the principles of God’s Word,....the Cheif leaders kicked him out (excommunicated).

Martin Luther did not want to leave the Catholic Church, he had no choice, unless he denied the truth!

Protestant or Catholic, we must chose to serve the living God, even if you are type-cast as anti-catholic or anti-protestant.

Maybe we should make the same choice as Joshua. “...choose you this day whom ye will serve,....But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)


15 posted on 06/21/2011 9:38:21 AM PDT by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonymous)
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I'm thrilled that we got up to reply #15 before this happy 'ecumenical' perspective was posted.

About Luther we have two legends and these are not too far apart: according to one, popular among rightist Catholics, there is a straight line from Luther to the French Revolution, Marx, and Lenin; the other one, enthusiastically affirmed by many Reformed Christians, claims that Luther and Calvin are responsible for democracy, republicanism, freedom, Enlightenment, progress, individualism, and perhaps also socialized medicine, psychoanalysis, "freelove" and the Manchester School of Economics. These concepts are not so different because mutually the one is the caricature of the other.

16 posted on 06/21/2011 9:54:52 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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Dowd should simply look at the Catholic vote and realize they are not her enemy, she probably doesn’t know that little fact.


17 posted on 06/21/2011 10:01:40 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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Dowd should simply look at the Catholic vote and realize they are not her enemy ...

I'd wager that a majority WILL be her enemy in 2012. The many who were bamboozled by 0's bs rhetoric in '08 have had their eyes opened.

18 posted on 06/21/2011 10:16:45 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

here's a more up to date beast pic

19 posted on 06/21/2011 10:19:21 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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I call your "Beast" and raise you a "Beauty" ...


20 posted on 06/21/2011 10:22:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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