Posted on 12/13/2007 10:45:55 AM PST by NYer
Marshall Ganz helped start Voice of the Faithful, an organization devoted to "structural change in the Church. It has called for changes in Catholic doctrine and practice, such as the addition of a married priesthood and the popular election of bishops.
Ganz recruited one of his former graduate students, Aimee Caravich, into Voice of the Faithful to develop a training program for regional coordinators and affiliate leaders. In a letter to the organization's members, she wrote, "VOTF can rise to its feet and claim a piece of the power that the Catholic hierarchy currently holds. I am here to get that ball rolling."
Marshall Ganz is now a chief advisor to Obama, having designed and implemented "Camp Obama" training sessions in five states. The three-day sessions were for volunteers whose job is to create precinct-level grassroots political support.
In a Camp Obama website video, Ganz explains, "How we can develop our own stories of self so we can relate with voters on a deeper emotional level than just to transfer information."
Ganz, a former civil rights and labor organizer with figures like Cesar Chavez, also worked with the United Farm Workers.
Deal Hudson of InsideCatholic.com thinks Ganz's dissenting influence on Obama's campaign might be evident in the presidential candidate's address to the Call For Renewal Conference. In that speech, Obama suggested that Catholic teaching against birth control was a "more culturally specific" doctrine that "may be modified to accommodate modern life."
"Now that Clinton is sliding downward in the polls, and the Obama campaign is gaining ground, we may be hearing more of Obama's opinions on Catholic teaching," Hudson surmised.
what ever happened to “fallen away” Catholic
or what old schoolers used to call ‘em “ex-Catholics”...in any case, this clown is about as "Catholic" as my cat! LOL
“Ganz is a nationally known expert in political organizing. In 2004 he was an adviser to Howard Dean — Ganz now advises Democratic presidential candidate, Barak Obama.”
Evidently Ganz has not been on winning teams. So much for “experts”
Gosh, he sounds almost as expert as Bob "0 for 8" Schrumm.
Why am I not surprised?
He’s not just an ex-Catholic, tho. He is an ANTi-Catholic. If he were just not Catholic, he would not seek to destroy (I mean, to quote him, ‘to bring about structural change.’) But as he has founded VOTF, he is now fighting to destroy something he once loved.
vile.
Spot the tired '60s liberal psycho-babble buzzwords.
"Stories of self"......"relate"......"deeper emotional level".
Sounds like the guy is looking for a spiritual experience. Unfortunately, he's been running in the wrong direction for 40 years.
What the ... ???
I refuse to believe that any man said that. That's 100% pure new age feminist psychodrivel.
Thanks to Deal... I really miss him. I will go to Chicago in hopes of seeing this guy personally. Trust me.
This requires Mass, prayer and fasting. I wonder how the black nationalists feel about Ganz?
Lots of ex-priests and liberal laymen dove into the pool of psychology, bumped their heads on the bottom, and came up babbling like this. If they are going to abandon their faith and delve into psychology, I wish they would read a little William James, who had some real insignt into religious faith.
There's an enlightening article on him here.
He worked for the United Farm Workers for a long time, but now he's just virulently anti-Catholic Church in a weirdly "We Are The Church" kind of way, when he's no such thing.
He's like a person who refuses to marry, and then demands the right to divorce. Or a person who refuses to get pregnant, and then demands the right to abort.
Weird.
Oh, and BTW, he's not the Synagogue, either.
Fallen-away Catholic has gotto be the second-largest religious group in America. Second to Catholic.
I mean, “scroll.” Sheesh/
LOL! Curiouser and curiouser.
Are there any real Catholics left in Massghanistan?
Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) | From their mission statement, they are attempting to "3. Shape structural change within Church." This is intended to make a "democratic" Church which clearly violates the hierarchical structure which has always existed and is reemphasized in Vatican II Lumen Gentium. The chairman James Muller states in a National Catholic Reporter article on April 26, 2002, ìWe have donation without representation, and we have to change that.î Also on a CNN interview dated April 29, 2002, the chairman desires cafeteria Catholicism: "... our goal is to provide a democracy for the laity, so that the laity can decide what they want and then counterbalance the absolute power, which we have now of the hierarchy." See more details below. |
Denis Praeger uses Secular Jew. I don’t think “agnostic Jew” would be offensive.
You don’t mean to offend, so don’t sweat it.
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