"There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship," Newman writes. A sample: Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, emailed John Podesta, now the head of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, to ask about whether "the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage" could be the tinder for a revolution. I’m thinking, of course, of the contemptuously anti-Catholic emails exchanged among members of the Clinton Democratic presidential campaign team and released this week by WikiLeaks. The cultural damage done by the current White House has - apparently - made courting America’s bishops unnecessary.īut bad can always get worse. Thanks to their work, and activists like them, American Catholics helped to elect an administration that has been the most stubbornly unfriendly to religious believers, institutions, concerns and liberty in generations. Yet these two young men not only equaled but surpassed their Republican cousins in the talents of servile partisan hustling. And presumably (for them) bishops were dumb enough to be used as tools, or at least prevented from helping the other side. Both men were obvious flacks for the Obama campaign and the Democratic Party - creatures of a political machine, not men of the Church less concerned with Catholic teaching than with its influence. And they hoped my brother bishops and I would resist identifying the Church with single-issue and partisan (read: abortion) politics. They voiced great concern at the manipulative skill of Catholic agents for the Republican Party. They were from Catholics United, a group describing itself as committed to social justice issues. Here is his weekly column, in its entirety:īack in 2008, in the weeks leading up to the Obama-McCain presidential election, two young men visited me in Denver. Editor's Note: Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput is among leaders in the Catholic church reacting harshly to "anti-Catholic" emails from the Clinton campaign that were leaked.
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