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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
Sat May 26, 2012, 02:59 PM May 2012

Allow me to introduce you to Mr. William Lindsey:

The deep, stinking, seemingly intractable corruption in the highest structures of the Catholic church today, which the very same bishops now trying to engineer the outcome of the 2012 U.S. elections have colluded in covering up, threatens to affect the course of human history, of the history of the entire planet, in the worst way possible. It does so as rabidly right-wing ideological purists within the Catholic church, who are well-represented in the Republican political sector of the United States and who are defended by weak, principles-lite centrists in the Catholic academy and media, do everything in their power to shut up fellow Catholics calling for transparency and accountability--and top-to-bottom reform--within the Catholic church.

I'm not particularly interested in the latest scandals from the Vatican. I'm not particularly interested in Vatican gossip. But I am interested in the future.

I'm interested in seeing that the next generation on this planet has a future. And I'm therefore appalled by the corruption in the Catholic church insofar as that corruption now translates into political activity of an entirely destructive and evil sort among powerful American Catholics who are the very embodiment of the ideological purity movement within the Catholic church that resists reform.

And who may well be marching us to destruction at this moment of history--all of us throughout the world--if they achieve their goal of using Catholic votes to secure a GOP victory this fall.

http://www.bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2012/05/notes-on-vatileaks-scandal-hell.html#more

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