#14 OF 40 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"!

# 14 OF 40 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MAR. 14/19

George Neumayr, "The Political Pope" Center Street, New York, 2017

Chapter 4 - The Liberal Jesuit from Latin America  p. 73-74

"The only group of Catholics whom Archbishop Bergoglio treated severely were conservative Catholics, whose interest in the traditional Latin Mass he blocked. "He has persecuted every single priest who made an effort to wear a cassock, preach with firmness, or that was simply interested in Summorum Pontificum [ Pope Benedict's authorization for wider use of the traditional Latin Mass], Argentine journalist Marcelo Gonzalez has written. Bergoglio referred to conservative religious orders as "restorationist factions" and decried their "rigid religiosity."....

"Pope Francis biographer Paul Valley has quoted "senior Jesuits" in Pope Francis: Untying the Knots who feared a Bergoglio papacy:

    'I was really shocked when I began to contact the people I knew in the Jesuits to say, "Who is this man, Bergoglio?" ... Yes, I know Bergoglio. He's a person who's caused a lot of problems in the society and is highly controversial in his own country.... he's surrounded by this personality cult, which is extremely divisive... He left the Society of Jesus in Argentina in ruins, with Jesuits divided, institutions destroyed, and financially broken. We have spent two decades trying to fix the chaos this man left us.'

"This was an extraordinary thing to read, and it wasn't a lone voice," Vallely said. "Three other senior Jesuits told me similar things....

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Chapter Five - "The Unholy Alliance" p.75

"The election of a liberal Jesuit to the papacy thrilled Democrats in the U.S.A., whose unholy alliance wit the Catholic left goes back many decades. Barack Obama, one of the pope's most prominent supporters, has been a beneficiary of that alliance.  The faculty at Jesuit Georgetown University in Washington, DC, ranked as one of the top donors to his campaign.

In a grim irony, Obama, whose presidency substantially eroded religious freedom in America, rose to power in spite of the Catholic Church BUT BECAUSE OF IT. The archdioceses of Chicago helped bankroll his radicalism in the 1980s. As he recounts in his memoirs, he began his work as a community organizer in the rectory rooms of Holy Rosary parish on Chicago's South Side.

The Alinskyite organization for which he worked - the Developing Communities Project - received tens of thousands of dollars from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Obama was close to late Chicago cardinal Joseph Bernardin. A proponent of the seamless garment movement within the Catholic Church in the 1980s, a movement that downplayed abortion and emphasized political liberalism, Bernardin was drawn to the socialism and relativism of the liberal elite. He was so gay-friendly that he requested that the Windy City Gay Chorus perform at his funeral.

He embodied Obama's conception of a "good" bishop, and one can see in his admixture of left-wing politics and relativistic nonjudgmental theology a foreshadowing of the rise of Pope Francis. Cardinal Bernardin put pressure on his priests to work with Obama and even paid for Obama's plane fare out to a 1980 training session in Los Angeles organized by Saul Alinsky's industrial Areas Foundation. The conference was held at a Catholic College in Southern California, Mount St. Mary's, which has long been associated with the Alinsky's group.
    This alliance between the Catholic Left explains the honorary degree Obama received from the University of Notre Dame in 2009, even as he plotted to persecute the Church under Obamacare's contraceptive and abortifacient mandate. Notre Dame's former president Fr. Theodore Hesburgh who supported honoring Obama, had been close to Monsignor John Egan, the socialist and sat on Saul Alinsky's industrial Areas Foundation Board.
     The unholy alliance also explains how the Democratic Party, despite its support of abortion and gay marriage, won a majority of the Catholic vote in Obama's two presidential elections. At the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, nuns such as Sister Simone Campbell shared the stage with abortion advocates from Planned Parenthood ... As Thomas Pauken writes in The Thirty Years War  " the radicalization of the Catholic clergy turned to be one of Saul Alinsky's most significant accomplishments." George H. Kubeck