Catolicismo

Calling Catholicism A 'Middle Ages Dictatorship' Is Laughably Ignorant

The Federalist 2 hours 3 minutes ago

It is clear that prominent left-wingers and Democratic operatives think about the Catholic Church quite a lot—and they have some potent opinions on the subject. Last year we learned that George Soros dropped $600,000 on leftist Catholic front groups, trying to spin Pope Francis’ visit as a campaign tour for Hillary. Last week it emerged that Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, agrees that Catholic terms of art such as “Thomistic thought” and “subsidiarity” are merely sophistical smoke screens for rich conservatives such as Rupert Murdoch, who are in search of a faith with “severely backward gender relations,” but too snobbish to join an evangelical church. Not to be outdone, in a friendly email exchange with Hillary’s campaign chairman John Podesta, left-wing activist Sandy Newman described the Catholic Church as a “middle ages dictatorship” that needed a “Catholic spring.” (Would that be akin to the Arab Spring, and result in chaos, hangings, and the rise of a Catholic ISIS—perhaps named al-Chiesa?) To help with that, Podesta promised help to pro-choice sock puppet groups that call themselves “Catholic,” but push the Democrats’ agenda—you know, like those tribal “homelands” the apartheid South Africans set up in the 1980s and pretended were independent. ...

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