“What kind of Catholics do they think we are?."
That question was thundered at the recent National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D. C. by Knights of Columbus Carl Anderson. The question was rhetorical.
President Obama has said that he was quite a poker player in his Springfield days. I don't know about that Obama Bio Nugget, but I have lost piles dollars playing poker myself. I '
invested' more than enough years ago in a personal Solyndra of waste. Like me, who wears his heart on his sleeve, face, and shirt-front, has a
tell - a tell is a signal to other players. Many times a tell goes unnoticed for many hands, but eventually jumps up.
President Obama's
tell with regard to faith and liberty screamed out last May when his NLRB Chicago team declared that St. Xavier University was not a religious institution. As Vice President Biden once said over hot-mic, " It is a BFD!"
In November, Cardinal George and then Cardinal Designate Dolan of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sat down with the Springfield Kid and his three-card monte HHS Contraception Mandate shill Sec. Sebelius. The Tell was picked up, but not really obvious until Shill Sebelius, a Vichy Catholic herself, punched down the HHS Mandate. It is a supreme hypocrisy and threat to religious freedom.
Catholics and
They are at war. No kidding.
The rhetorical pronoun "They" refers to the current White House, Democratic National Committee, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Southern Law and Poverty Center, Academia, Hollywood, and the Media.
Catholicism by state -There sure are many Catholics.
We pretty much know what "they" think Catholics to be: Lock-step voting demographic, close-knit tribal white blue collar ethnics, homophobic breeders, slow-witted, unsophisticates easily cowed by their betters, and sheep of patriarchal undemocratic autocrats.
Supreme Knight Carl Anderson summed up the American spiritus mundi 2012 brilliantly -
The spirit of our age is profoundly secular.
And secularism accepts religion – if it accepts it at all – only on its own terms.
Under this view, religion is subordinated to the political interests of the secular state.
And it is precisely this subordination of religion to the state that the First Amendment seeks to prevent.
Let us be clear: we value religious liberty not only because it protects our personal autonomy.
We value religious liberty because of the goodwhich religion brings into the life of the individual believer and into the life of our nation. Carl Anderson National Prayer Breakfast 4/19/2012 ( emphasis my own)
"They" have the stage, the microphone,the camera, the White House, the Justice Department and a sea of ink.
We have the Nicean Creed, seven sacraments, at least eight years of Catholic schooling, which trumps 12 years of a public school education, a rich history of commitment to liberty for all of our neighbors, and for the first time in decades a group of courageous, generous, thoughtful and patriotic American Catholic Bishops standing for first principles - the sanctity of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What kind of Catholics do they think we are?
Here in Chicago, the great work of Cardinal Mundelein, who was the first prominent American to condemn Hitler, who Americanized Catholic Education, who reformed the Chancery Office, built the largest American Catholic seminary at St. Mary of the Lake and hundreds of schools is all but ignored.
The role of Bishop Bernard Sheil who fought for real American Labor with John L. Lewis, educated parolees without state funding, operated the largest sports and vocational network for youth -The Catholic Youth Organisation ( CYO) which gave opportunities away from the streets for all races creeds and colors. Sheil who?
Instead, you would think that Saul Alinsky actually mattered in the lives of people.
What kind of Catholics do they think we are? The types of Vichy Catholics* they create, it seems to me, are acceptable, fund-able and suitable for high and low public office. If a Catholic gets money from Planned Parenthood, or Personal PAC, more importantly accepts that money to push abortions that is what they think Catholics should be.
We shall see in November.
* A term that I heard first from the late Chicago genius and Renaissance Man Tom Roeser - it equates the public Catholic who demands every, if not most, social agendas that conflict with Catholic teaching and doctrine with the pro-facist French who helped the Nazis round up Jews and enemies of freedom. Simply, any self-stated Catholic who admires and defends abortion, homosexual marriage, and pretty much every DNC secularist plank in the platform. AKA Catholics for Obama 2012.
