A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics (NY Times)

The New York Times ^ | AUG. 2, 2017 | JASON HOROWITZ

[Salman]

VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican’s good graces.

The authors, writing in a Vatican-vetted journal, singled out Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, as a “supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics” that has stymied action against climate change and exploited fears of migrants and Muslims with calls for “walls and purifying deportations.”

The article warns that conservative American Catholics have strayed dangerously into the deepening political polarization in the United States. The writers even declare that the worldview of American evangelical and hard-line Catholics, which is based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, is “not too far apart’’ from jihadists.

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[jospehm20]

This Pope makes it easy to believe the worst.

[reagandemocrat]

Another NYT article from a different perspective. And makes far more sense:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/opinion/vatican-conservative-catholics-america.html

[aMorePerfectUnion]

That was NOT necessary....or Classy.

It reflects a non-classy and non-necessary condition of the vatican. Gay mafia and gay, drup-fueled parties. Which do you care about more?

[bert]

The Vatican does not believe in the separation of church and state.

[SpirituTuo]

And, what is an “ultra conservative?” Do they were little, embroidered “u” on their birettas?

[SpirituTuo]

Especially when they said Cdl Mueller was “fired.” His term expired and wasn’t renewed. He wasn’t fired. Good grief.

[Fedora]

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, a standard-bearer for conservatism in America, likened the Civiltà Cattolica authors in his weekly newsletter to the “useful idiots” who supported the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. He called the article “an exercise in dumbing down and inadequately presenting the nature of Catholic/evangelical cooperation on religious freedom and other key issues.”

[fortes fortuna juvat]

>>There is a coming split in the Catholic Church.

There is already a split because, since the VC-II debacle, millions of traditional Catholics have simply opted out of participation in the Novus Ordo church. I know this because I am one of them.

[Gumdrop]

Well, your description of your reaction to this story is quite close to my own reaction.

I can attest that my Catholic relatives and friends who are closest to me are conservatives. I see no signs whatsoever of them or me having jihadi tendencies or any hatred in their hearts.

Why do liberals always assign their own weaknesses and sins to others?