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WikiLeaks: Podesta and Left-Wing Activist Plot ‘Catholic Spring’
Lifezette.com ^ | Oct 12, 2016 | Edmund Kozak

Posted on 10/12/2016 8:05:11 AM PDT by FR_addict

Longtime Clinton confidante discussed infiltrating the Catholic Church with progressive ideology to foment revolution

A newly leaked email shows Hillary Clinton’s current campaign chairman John Podesta and a Left-wing activist casually discussing fomenting “revolution” in the Catholic Church.

“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church,” Sandy Newman, president and founder of the progressive nonprofit Voices for Progress, writes to Podesta in an email titled “opening for a Catholic Spring? just musing.”

“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.”

The emails were leaked in the third round of releases of Podesta’s emails by WikiLeaks.

Newman, who is Jewish, admits he does not know much about the Catholic Church and isn’t volunteering personally to subvert Catholic teachings. “Even if the idea isn’t crazy, I don’t qualify to be involved and I have not thought at all about how one would ‘plant the seeds of the revolution,’ or who would plant them.”

In response, Podesta assures Newman to rest easy for he and his progressive pals have already created organizations explicitly designed to infiltrate the Catholic Church with progressive ideology, though he cautions that the time may not be right for full revolution — just yet...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; anticatholicbigotry; catholic; catholicchurch; catholics; catholicvote; gender; hillarysemails; projectvote; religion; religiousleft; reolution; revolution; sandynewman; socialjustice; v4p; voicesforprogress; waronchrist; wikileaks
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To: FR_addict

What a fool John Podesta is. True Catholics believe what God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost has set down as the rules. Podesta thinks, by subtle pressure, he can change the Catholic religion. For true Catholics, abortion is still a serious sin, homosexuality is still a serious wrong and a serious sin. Goofballs think they can change those beliefs. They cannot ever change the rules.


21 posted on 10/12/2016 8:30:40 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (EEe)
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To: FR_addict

Just talked this over with two moderate to liberal friends..

“That’s kind of ironic that you would be upset given the courting of the Bible belt by the GOP and the numerous times religion is brought about in the platform”

See? They don’t care. We need bigger news than this crap.


22 posted on 10/12/2016 8:39:16 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: combat_boots

No wonder they wanted to take Trump down before the WikiLeaks dump.

I can’t keep up with all the relevations.

I’m surprised how nasty these emails are. If these emails were sent around in a business, the sender would be fired.


23 posted on 10/12/2016 8:39:53 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

‘Just talked this over with two moderate to liberal friends..
“That’s kind of ironic that you would be upset given the courting of the Bible belt by the GOP and the numerous times religion is brought about in the platform”
See? They don’t care. We need bigger news than this crap.’

You may think it is crap, but I can guarantee there are Catholics out there that may be upset enough not to vote for Hillary. Even if they stay home, it helps Trump.


24 posted on 10/12/2016 8:44:47 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: Cap Huff

You may find this interesting


25 posted on 10/12/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: MayflowerMadam

I don’t FB, but do tweet. I signed up to help Trump a year or so ago.

Mine is tailored to the people I want to read.

Would you go to twitter.com (you don’t have to register) and see what kind of tweets you see and let us know?

Twitter plays games too.


26 posted on 10/12/2016 8:48:09 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: combat_boots; Whenifhow; LucyT; hoosiermama; NIKK; HarleyLady27; RitaOK

Thanks for the link!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3479667/posts?page=19#19

http://citizensontheweb.ca/

Ping to list of wikileaks topics!


27 posted on 10/12/2016 8:51:15 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: FR_addict

There is video of Hillary claiming,long held religious beliefs will have to be changed.
Sounds like she was in this meeting


28 posted on 10/12/2016 8:52:28 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: FR_addict

There is video of Hillary claiming,long held religious beliefs will have to be changed.
Sounds like she was in this meeting


29 posted on 10/12/2016 8:52:28 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That response is a non sequitur. There is a difference to appealing to members of a religion who likely support your political beliefs, to saying that people’s religious beliefs have to be changed, as Hillary and co believe.


30 posted on 10/12/2016 8:52:53 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: FR_addict

Work on Islam first, then get back to us!


31 posted on 10/12/2016 8:55:02 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Fair point.


32 posted on 10/12/2016 8:56:15 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: ballplayer

All I know is that our local Diocese is putting the full-court press on a PR campaign about “change”. And they’re being very tight-lipped about exactly what “change” means.


33 posted on 10/12/2016 9:09:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Was Francis CC’d?


34 posted on 10/12/2016 9:10:05 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: FR_addict

Catholics will now begin throwing garbage at John Podesta. He is hostile to the Catholic religion.


35 posted on 10/12/2016 9:23:38 AM PDT by Rapscallion (OBAMA and Clinton: Defiantly destroying America one deranged decision at a time)
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To: FR_addict

Seems like they succeeded.


36 posted on 10/12/2016 9:41:05 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Gene Eric

“Was Francis CC’d?”

That’s funny!


37 posted on 10/12/2016 9:46:42 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: FR_addict
So I guess politics and religion can mix after all.
38 posted on 10/12/2016 9:58:12 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

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>> “So I guess politics and religion can mix after all” <<

Just remember, politics and religion have absolutely nothing to do with Faith!
.


39 posted on 10/12/2016 10:00:45 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: FR_addict

I hope that the “Catholic Spring” backfires on HRC as bad as the “Arab Spring” in Egypt backfired on Obama.


40 posted on 10/12/2016 10:01:42 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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