Clinton's election director Podesta has offended Catholics in internal -- Cardinal Dolan: These utterances are "condescending and offensive"
United States (kath.net)
The New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan (archive photo) has asked the US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to apologize to Catholics for comments by their campaign director, which were revealed by Wikileaks. John Podesta had expressed the opinion in internal emails that the Catholic religion was a "falsification of faith" and that it was interesting for conservatives, among other things, because it represented "completely outdated gender relations." In order to overcome the resistance of the Church to the "ban on contraception," John Podesta 2012 supported organizations that were to change the Church from within.
According to Cardinal Dolan, these statements are "condescending and offensive" to Catholics.
The Cardinal added that "within ten minutes" an apology would have come if Podesta's comments had been referring to the Jewish or the Muslim community.
And yet Dolan yokked it up with her at the Al Smith dinner. Either he's a toothless tiger or he's in cahoots with her and made that demand just for show.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Clinton knows that Dolan is only a clown without power. The excuses will never come.
DeleteMrs. Clinton is a $100 million cash cow for Catholic Charities Muslim invasion sponsored by Uncle Mohammed. Can you imagine what the take will be with Mrs. Clinton want 500 times more uh, er, "refugees" eh, eh.
DeleteHer invitation to the Al Smith dinner should have been immediately withdrawn - apology or no apology. What kind of representative have Catholics got in Cardinal Dolan? Marching with LGBT activists in St. Patrick's Day Parade, homosexual clerics scandal in his Diocese which he fails to deal with & now this.
ReplyDeleteProbably both. But it's a good thing he did make the demand, because if given enough air time and print time, this will be very damaging to the Clinton campaign. Hopefully it already is. We all know that Clinton is an anti-Catholic bigot. If enough of this could be spread around, it could seriously derail her presidency hopes.
ReplyDeleteMy relatives in India told me that people there hate the Clintons....Hillary and Bill. ONe cousin predicted a lot of violence and protests if she is elected....and if she follows thru with some of her agenda, the possibility of outright ripping apart of the country. People in India don't like Trump either, but consider him the lesser of two evils....they can't believe some of the things he's said and consider it comical. They like him better than Hillary...which isn't saying much.
Damian Malliapalli
Lukewarmness!
ReplyDeleteAmen to that.
ReplyDeleteYou said it well for us all, RDCC.
ReplyDeleteDolan spent all his time chatting with Clinton, and ignored Trump sitting next to him.
ReplyDeleteTells you all you need to know.
The English bishop William Kenney is a key figure in the official Catholic-Lutheran dialogue, and will be with Pope Francis in Sweden at the end of the month. He believes unity is a matter of decades away, and it's very possible that Francis may use the trip to make a gesture on inter-communion.
ReplyDeletehttps://cruxnow.com/interviews/2016/10/21/pope-sweden-break-ground-inter-communion-bishop-says/
Excerpt:
The consensus of the 1999 document on justification stated, if I’ve understood it correctly, that the reasons for the Catholics condemning the Protestant positions and vice-versa no longer hold, and if ever each Church did hold the position that the other said they did, what is now true is that neither Church no longer holds that position. In other words, the Reformation was all a big misunderstanding!
I think it’s very important that people know that the Reformation was a great misunderstanding, we all got it wrong, on both sides, and we’ve lifted excommunications and condemnations and apologized. So we can all be friends.
Of course, you’ll find certain Catholics and certain Lutherans still claiming the other holds those positions, but they are not representative of the mainstream positions of the Churches. The document was approved by Rome, which binds Catholics whether they like it or not; the Lutherans are made up of about 100 churches, and there were about 37 who didn’t, back then, sign up to it. Some have come into line since.