Posted on 12/18/2007 12:52:02 PM PST by GratianGasparri
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The bishops, unfortunately grew up in Democratic households, and cannot get it into their heads that the New Deal coalition of which Catholic union leaders were a part, was shattered in 1972. It is now the party of the Unitarian George McGovern. While nominal Catholic like Pelosi, pretend to be moved by Catholic social doctrines, and they sometimes use the language, they are radical laicists who only listen to the liberal abbes at place like George town.
Honestly, on Broadway there was no blood and guts flowing. The film is a teen slasher film, so I’ve been told.
agree!! Yet, it’s that political view which unfortunately is being disguiesed as a theological view by certain bishops, for certain by the apparatchiks at the USCCB like Kathy Sailes, and by so called catholic in name only politicians.
They have what you might call a “bully” pulpit. And, while national conferences are cannonical creatures, their unique institutional natures are, I believe (and with defference to a view of a cannonical scholar) formed without cannonical regulation. The USCCB is an ideological cesspool and, again looking at these stupid movie reviews as only a symptom, largely a wing of the democratic party. That is why you see at best a muted USCCB cry and hue over the conduct of politicians from any party who flout their so called catholicism in defiance of natural law and church teaching regarding abortion, euthanasia and family v homosexual agendas. You will also see that the USCCB incrementally undermines the Church’s theological teachings on such things as subsidiarity and immigration. Thus, what happens is that the USCCB is a safe harbor for the socialists and democrats seeking backing for leftist policies such as federalizing all aspects of our lives and open borders. In that sense, the USCCB has entered the political fray and unfortunately it does tend to confuse many catholics and it does abuse the power of its often used institutionalized prudential “guidance” on a host of issues.
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