A Conversation on the Big Divide - 4


In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Let's share several excerpts that may help both sides:

1) Andrew Breitbart, Righteous Indignation, p. 7

"For decades the left understood the importance of education, art and messaging. Oprah Winfrey gets it. David Geffen gets it. President Barack Obama gets it. Even Corey Feldman gets it.

"But the right doesn't. For decades the right felt the Pentagon and the political class and the politician class and simple common sense could win the day. They were wrong.

"The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the 21st century the media is everything [the unelected media] The left wins because it controlled the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media."

2) The Mindszenty Report, July 2013 - A Papal Paradox - Pope Francis and Liberation Theology, p. 4:

" To his credit Pope Francis never joined his fellow Latin American Jesuits who supported liberation theology. In fact he admonished the to stay out of political issues and certainly not take up the liberationist theology. According to Jesuit Father Alejandro, Cardinal Bergoglio could not support the struggle for justice through arms, through violence, because it is against what we are doing ads Christians.

"The lesson lost on the Jesuit liberationists was the fact that Pope Francis's position segues perfectly with those of both of his immediate predecessors, John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, whom the opposed. While Pope Francis ma be a paradoxical figure who bears many complex attitudes to his papal stage, one thing is certain: he will always choose the side of Christ and the Church."

3)"In the year 1274 great evils threatened the world. The Church was assailed by fierce enemies from within and without. So great was the danger that Pope, Gregory X, who then resigned, calling a council of Bishops in Lyons to determine on the best means of saving society from the ruin that menaced it.

Among the many means proposed, the pope and the bishops what they considered the easiest and most efficacious of all, viz. the frequent repetition of the Holy Name of Jesus.

The Holy Father then begged the Bishops of the world and their priests to call on the Name of Jesus and to urge their peoples to place all their confidence in this all-powerful Name repeating it constantly and with boundless trust."

(Chapter 3, The Wonders of the Holy Name, Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, O.P.)

George H. Kubeck,

P.S. Update: Catholic Georgetown University caves to HHS mandate.