Catholic News Service: Amoris Laetitia A-OK! & USCCB/Soros Say Turn in Your Guns, Too

St. Corbian's Bear ^ | July 12, 2016 | St. Corbian's Bear

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Catholic News Service: USCCB's Pravda

The Catholic News Service is the house organ of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Yet as CNS's hilarious "About CNS" page points out several times, it is doing real journalism, having some vague relationship with the USCCB, but definitely not involved in publicity.

CNS is not directly funded by the USCCB. "It must be financially self-sustaining." In other words, the usual lefty foundations shovel money to keep it afloat, along with all the other trendy scams with which the USCCB is fascinated, in lieu of promoting the Catholic Faith.

USCCB Committee That Produced Gun-Grab Policy: Very Interesting

The list of those serving on the USCCB's committee on domestic policy that produced the USCCB gun-grab policy paper is quite fascinating. Billionaire George Schmidt, Google ex-boss and massive supporter of President Obama, etc. etc; John Sweeney, head of Democrat Socialists of America, former SEIU, AFL-CIO boss and recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom; Sister Janet Mock, LCWR; Sister Miriam Mitchell, LCWR; Sister Carol Keehan, President of Catholic Health Association and vocal supporter of Obamacare while drawing a $962,467 salary from CHA; Ray Boshara, former Senior Fellow at New America Foundation, which has George Soro's son Jonathan on the board, is anti-gun, pro-Obamacare, and funded by left-wing heavyweights such as George Soros, through his Open Society Foundation. Anthony Williams, vociferously anti-gun ex-mayor of Washington D.C. Those are the people behind the Catholic gun grab in the U.S. There are different players in the Vatican.

The USCCB heavily pushed its anti-gun policy through it's official party organ, Catholic News Service, in an article by Carol Glatz in 2011. The point is, it is somewhere between a joke and a lie to claim that CNS is some sort of legitimate, independent news outlet. The Bear also wanted to show who has the ear of the U.S. Bishops: billionaire lefties and curious private / government entities like the New American Foundation. (Top contributors include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.S. State Department.)

Would it be an exaggeration to claim that the USCCB is nothing more a left-wing PAC? No, it would not, says the Bear. Is it clear that someday such national conferences will be making decisions for the Catholics in their own jurisdiction? The Bear expects so.

Wet Kisses Between Fr. Spadaro and Cardinal Schonborn

We know who has influence at the USCCB. Their party organ, CNS, has long been known for its fluff pieces by pretend journalists like the following interview of Cardinal Christoph Schonborn by Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro. It was conducted for La Civitlá Cattolica, and CNS published it online. Warning: slobbering love-in ahead.

To make it even richer, Archbishop Cupich has taken time out from his busy psychiatric practice to tweet a special recommendation for all Catholics to navigate to the article, and delight in the comedy team of Spadaro and Schonborn. (h/t Edward Pentin tweet.) The Bear always enjoys savaging Cardinal Cupich, but must stay focused, even in a target rich environment.

But wait. Here is the very same Jesuit Father Spadaro's opinion on Amoris Laetitia as reported in the National Catholic Register.

Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civilta Cattolica and one of Pope Francis’ closest advisers, has cited Paragraph 303 as proof that the Pope is opening the door to Communion in such cases. “Pope Francis moves forward in this direction when he speaks of a ‘dynamic discernment’ that ‘must remain ever open to new stages of growth and to new decisions which can enable the ideal to be more fully realized,’” he wrote in the Jesuit journal, whose articles are normally approved by the Secretariat of State but reportedly are now also cleared by Pope Francis. “An irregular situation cannot be turned into a regular one, but there are also journeys of healing, of exploration, journeys in which the law is lived step-by-step.”

Not very journalistically objective, CNS, is it, to have Amoris Laetitia cheerleader Fr. Spadaro interviewing another booster, Cardinal Schonborn.

For Sean O'Duibhir an Gleanna, we were worsted in the game.

Interestingly, in 1929 Julien Benda, the Bear's current go-to prophet, in la trahison des clercs noted how for intellectual traitors, everything is always in evolution. There are no fixed principles. Also, for Benda, the real treason was that the intellectuals continued to claim the title and prerogatives of intellectuals while choosing sides. Or maybe claim to be journalists while actually being propagandists.

There are probably far more traitors in the Church than faithful clercs, which is the bigger issue. But they were patient, plotted, played the long con, and - somehow - almost no one saw the danger until it was far too late. Now, the Church itself has been changed. It is not just a matter of getting rid of the traitors, but breaking up a replacement institution "as constituted in society" that is funded without limits, politically protected, entrenched in academia, and the norm in parishes.

For some reason the Bear is reminded of the haunting Irish ballad about the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Aughrim: we were worsted in the game. There is almost a fatalism that makes the brave hope of some future victory merely a romantic fantasy.

After Aughrim's great disaster, When our foes in sooth were master... May her sons be true when needed, May they never fail as we did, For Sean O'Duibhir an Gleanna, we were worsted in the game.

And Now, the Interview

So, is Amoris Laetia magisterial? (Fr. Spadaro, the neutral reporter that he is, pre-answers, saying, "it seems obvious, but it is good to specify it in these times.")

Cardinal Schonborn agreed with Fr. Spadaro. "It is obvious."

Fr. Spadaro,"I have in impression, therefore, that this stage is in the evolution of the doctrine." (Wait, who is the reporter and who is being interviewed here?)

Cardinal Schonborn, "Yeah. Oh boy, is it ever evolution. You nailed it, buddy."

A sycophant interviews a traitor about a book supposedly written by the man who gave a whole new meaning to the Peter Principle and the article is recommended by a insect in a tiny purple outfit. It's really not worth wasting your time reading yourself, as it is fairly summarized. The Bear does it so his friends won't have to.

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You want a schism? Because this is how you get a schism.

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I don’t want a schism; but apparently Francis, Schonborn, Kasper, Cupich, et al, do want a schism.

[Arthur McGowan]

The USCCB is the most powerful anti-Catholic organization in the U.S. It is pro-abortion and Marxist.

[Jacob Kell]

A “clique of Devils”, to use Dostoevsky’s succinct words, are they not?

[Fred Hayek]

Now when is the USCCB going to rule that Catholic churches must fly the abomination rainbow flag?

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Altar at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Hollywood, Calif.

[Fred Hayek]

That is the equivalent of Antiochus Epiphanes sacrificing a pig in the Temple. That Church has been profaned, and needs to be reconsecrated after the heretic clergy have been tossed out.
That church is no longer Christian in any way shape or form. Vickie Jean Robinson would feel at home there.