Catholic League: McCain Embraces Bigot [John Hagee]

Catholic Online ^ | 2/29/2008 | Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

[Alex Murphy]

NEW YORK, N.Y. (Catholic League) - Yesterday, Senator John McCain said he was “very honored by Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement.”

The Republican presidential hopeful also called Hagee “the staunchest leader of our Christian evangelical movement,” citing the minister’s pro-Israel stance.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue addressed this today:

“There are plenty of staunch evangelical leaders who are pro-Israel, but are not anti-Catholic. John Hagee is not one of them. Indeed, for the past few decades, he has waged an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church.

For example, he likes calling it ‘The Great Whore,’ an ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ,’ and a ‘false cult system.’ To hear the bigot in his own words, click here. http://youtube.com/watch?v=uViQ0hVV57Q

Note: he isn’t talking about the Buddhists.

“In Hagee’s latest book, Jerusalem Countdown, he calls Hitler a Catholic who murdered Jews while the Catholic Church did nothing. ‘The sell-out of Catholicism to Hitler began not with the people but with the Vatican itself,’ he writes.

“For the record, Hitler persecuted the Catholic Church and was automatically excommunicated in 1931—two years before he assumed power—when he acted as best man at Joseph Goebbel’s Protestant wedding. Hitler even bragged about his separation from the Church.

As for doing nothing about the Holocaust, Sir Martin Gilbert reminds us that Goebbels denounced Pope Pius XII for his 1942 Christmas message criticizing the Nazis (the New York Times lauded the pope for doing so in an editorial for two years in a row).

Much to Hagee’s chagrin, Gilbert also says that Pius XII saved three quarters of the Jews in Rome, and that more Jews were saved proportionately in Catholic countries than Protestant countries. Indeed, Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide credited the Catholic Church with saving 860,000 Jews. No religion can match that.

[Uri’el-2012]

XS> “anti-Semitism?”

ROFLMAO

That will be news to the Jewish U.S. Marines I served with and brought back to America in one piece.

We’re still waiting for some kind of “thank you” from you for the many Catholics who fought & died for Jews in WWII.

But, I won’t be holding my breath!

318 posted on 03/09/2008 2:08:17 PM MDT by kellynla

If you need to receive a thank you.

Thank you for all the lives you saved !

NAsbU Matthew 6:1 "Beware of practicing your righteousness
before men to be noticed by them;
otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

[sitetest]

Dear TradicalRC,

Don't worry, the “doctor” is posting more falsehoods.

There is an on-line version of the book by Anthony Read which the “doctor” cites. The “doctor” claims that the book relates that Herr Himmler was a “life-long Catholic.”

This doesn't appear to be true.

In browsing through the on-line preview version of The Devils Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle available via Google book search, I found this on page 120:

[This is after the failed putsch in 1924 - not exactly the end of Herr Himmler's life]

“Himmler's world collapsed around him. He had no job and little chance of finding one. Along with the Nazi Party, the SA, and the entire Kampfbund, Kompanie Werner, on which he had pinned his last hopes of a military career, had also dissolved. At the same time, his Catholic faith was fading fast - by summer, he would have broken with the church forever, replacing the mysteries of the mass with the secrets and the subterfuge of the revolutionary underground, into which he plunged with equally religious fervour.”[emphasis added]

So much for Mr. Read's book telling us that Herr Himmler was a life-long Catholic. In fact, the source so fervently cited by the "doctor" turns out to tell us that Himmler basically wasn't a Catholic for the LAST 20 YEARS OF HIS LIFE. LOL.

As Google provides only a limited preview mode, I was unable to check on the other likely false assertions of the “doctor.”

sitetest

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Buy the book and read it for yourself. Or the hundreds of other books that detail the religious beliefs of Hitler's staff.

Himmler was never excommunicated. Himmler never renounced his Roman Catholicism.