No to Any CINOP # 2 of 2

Saturday, March 31, 2007
What follows on this page is an analysis by David Carlin, Catholic professor of Philosophy and Sociology. The truth will help us to understand the challenges we face.

“David contends that the once-flourishing Catholic Church in the U.S.A. was undermined by an unlucky convergence of three factors in the 1960’s: Vatican II, the end of the old Catholic quasi-ghetto, and the rise to cultural hegemony of secularism and moral liberalism. We might have withstood one or two of these transformations but three was a perfect storm that capsized the Church in America.

“Demoralized and adrift, American Catholics forged a compromise with this new secular culture. They downplayed specifically Catholic elements of their Faith. This led to a widespread loss of Catholic identity in America, a weakening of fidelity to Catholic doctrine, and the exodus of many from the Church.

“Except for a small minority, Catholics came to be infected by secularism and moral liberalism, and their de facto religion became no longer Catholicism, but generic Christianity. But Christianity of this sort, non-dogmatic or liberal always leads to religious decline, as the history of liberalism in American Protestantism has shown.

“As an American, David fears that the triumph of secularism and moral liberalism will eventually undermine the republic, by encouraging a kind of moral anarchy and by draining life of its higher or “transcendental” meaning, and David believes that a revived Catholicism is needed to check the advance of secularism and moral liberalism.

“Conservative Protestantism alone can’t do the job. The Catholic Church needs to revive an “official enemy” secularism and moral liberalism.

“Historically, the Church has found itself to be endangered on a number of occasions. Think of the Reformation, of the French Revolution, of the sturdiness of Polish Catholicism under Communist government. Unless Catholic leaders of similar energy emerge in the United States, the downside of American Catholicism is not likely to be reversed.

“At all events, even if the famous “Upon this rock” passage, upon which Catholics have routinely relied as a justification for confidence in the Church’s long term future, is indeed a divine promise that the Church will survive until the end of time, it nonetheless says nothing about the survival of the Church in the U.S.A.” Conclusion, and Book Cover

The above is from David Carlin’s book, “The Decline & Fall of the Catholic Church in America,” Sophia Institute Press, 2003. David is also the author of “Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion, Sophia …2006

As you can surmise from the above, our enemies, secularism and moral liberalism have today found two great allies and fellow travelers. They are: any Catholic-in-name-only-religion, and the CINOP, Catholic-in-name-only-politician. These two are anathema to our American Roman Catholic Faith. It may take a take 10 years to rid of all of them.

We start and educate locally. Every County in America has at least two or more CINOP in Congress or the State Legislatures. In Orange County, California, we have a Congresswoman and a State Senator. In 2008, it will be via pro-life absentee ballots that will defeat these two. The message is clear: No to Any Catholic-in-name only Politician

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate int o Spanish.
P.S. There is good news. The CINOP Assisted Suicide Bill AB 374 by Patty Berg and promoted by Speaker Fabian Nunez was shelved for next year. It was not put to a vote on June 8, 2007.