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She recently posted on her blog that her “mortal sin numero uno is DESPAIR.” I guess that would make CALUMNY numero dos.

The only thing she gets right is the stench of Bernandin did much damage to the Church. By the grace of God that stench is being slowly and surely removed from the Church. As a matter of fact Dolan was a bit of a surprise when he got elected as the Chairman of the USCCB since he’s not one of Bernardin’s boys.

Everything happens for a reason and it’s no accident that Dolan is leading the American Church at the time of this frontal attack by our government. He needs the support of Catholics not back stabbing by people like Ann Barnhart. We need to get behind him or get out of the way.

She may not be very politic about it, and you may not like what she says ... but I think she has Dolan pegged accurately here.

Let's face it -- the USCCB is not a religious organization. It's a political lobbying group, and has effectively become the leadership of the official "state church" of the modern, secular United States of America. This is why their offices are in Washington, D.C., by the way. If they were truly a religious organization they'd probably be located somewhere in Nebraska or Kansas.

But I'd also suggest that right-thinking American Catholics have written off Cardinal Dolan and his ilk years ago, so I don't see why Ann Barnhart should be disappointed at all.

I came across this item on a Catholic blog, posted shortly after the controversy surrounding the Al Smith Dinner in New York City began to get a lot of media attention. I think it hits the nail right on the head (the bold highlight is mine):

It's interesting that [the Author] should mention the FSSP. Catholic orders like the FSSP (and the SSPX) exist because they've already written off people like Timothy Dolan and the "state churh" he represents. The SSPX is openly defiant about it, while the FSSP is rather delicate about it.

I was kind of caught off guard by this story and wasn't even aware of the previous situations surrounding the Al Smith Dinner in 1996 and 2004. Quite frankly, I had been under the impression that they had stopped holding the Al Smith Dinner years ago. Most of the people who really matter in the fight for moral truth and to protect our God-given rights probably never heard of Al Smith, or this silly annual event that bears his name. They're busy standing on line outside of Chick-fil-A at least once a week, supporting a fundamentalist Protestant CEO who wouldn't waste his time with such nonsense himself.

And there you have it. Dan Cathy has more credibility for his "Catholic" moral leadership in this country than Cardinal Dolan does. That's a freaking disgrace.

Ann Barnhart is full of herself. The Church will never be pristine enough for her so she resorts to bitching, moaning and complaining. In her narrow world view the American Bishops are Marxist, the Priests are fags, the Nuns are Lesbians and anyone attending a Novus Ordo Mass is a slacker.

You may disagree with her assessment and her style, but saying she is full of herself seems like an odd characterization. The woman is definitely walking the walk. She closed down her brokerage because she believes the market is rigged and therefore immoral, and she is refusing to pay any more taxes because she refuses to support this corrupt government. She calls out Islam for the death cult it is. She calls out Obama for the anti-American communist that he is. She speaks out openly about these things and even gives her name and location so people know where to find her. Full of herself? Hardly. She simply believes in things and is acting on those beliefs.

I don't know much about Dolan, but if he is honoring Obama and any of the other pro-abortion, pro-communist, thieves in Washington, then she is right about him. I do know enough about the Church to know that it has, indeed, been quite significantly infiltrated by homosexuals who are not true to Catholic or even Christian belief. All you have to do is listen to what the various "Catholic" groups are saying about things like abortion and homosexuality to know what's really in their hearts. "By their fruits shall you know them", as it were.

All I can say is that if the rest of the US had the same balls as Barnhardt, we would have overthrown this corrupt government by now and re-instituted the US Constitution, instead of hoping and praying that a corrupt, immoral jackass like Romney is going to save us.