The New York Times Lumps the Catholic Church with the Mafia and the Muslim Brotherhood
The New York Times is not known for delicate restraint in its treatment of the Catholic Church. Executive editor Bill Keller (despite somehow marrying his second wife in the Church) trashed Pope John Paul the Great in 2002: "One paradox of the Polish pope is that while he is rightly revered for helping bring down the godless Communists, he has replicated something very like the old Communist Party in his church."
The memory of that fusillade was rekindled in a New York Times story on Thursday about the sex scandals of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and how they're outraging women in Italy. Times reporters Elisabetta Povoledo and Rachel Donadio include this loaded sentence: "By some lights, Italian women have come far in a country whose most entrenched power structures — the Roman Catholic Church and organized crime — remain male and secretive."
This is a little like saying the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan are both fraternal organizations based on race. But that wasn't the only example on this day. Kathryn Lopez of National Review found the Catholic Church was also compared to the terrorism-endorsing Muslim Brotherhood by reporter Scott Shane:
The Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is the oldest and largest Islamist movement in the world, with affiliates in nearly every Muslim country and adherents in Europe and the United States. Its size and diversity, and the decades-old legal ban that has kept it from genuine political power in Egypt, make it difficult to sum up simply. As the Roman Catholic Church encompasses leftist liberation theology and conservative anti-abortion advocacy, so the Brotherhood includes both practical reformers and firebrand ideologues.
This is not only offensive, but inaccurate in its crude metaphors that prefer politics over theology. Pope Benedict XIV in particular is a longtime critic of so-called "liberation theology," as obviously was anti-communist Pope John Paul. As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict wrote that it "constitutes a fundamental threat to the faith of the church."
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The Catholic Church is
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 8:47am.
The Catholic Church is 'mostly male'? I guess nuns don't count as women in libtards' eyes. And that makes sense, given dem socialist misogyny when it comes to conservative women, as is evidenced in the most hateful comments they feel free to make against conservative women in every avenue of life. As for the Muslim Brotherhood containing the broad spectrum of thought asa the Catholic Church, that is risible. Why it's almost like the same media outlets saying that Khomeini, on his return to Iran from France, had no interest in becoming a political leader of the country and supported democratic institutions in Iran. We see how "good" liberals' analysis of islamic groups are, every day, and are paying for it in droves.
Well, Tim, as Christiane
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 9:45am.
Well, Tim, as Christiane Amanpour says, when she sees all those rules in the Christian (not just Catholic) Churches, she thinks, "you know, totalitarian regimes."
Muslims, on the other hand, are not required to do anything. Everything they do is by choice: no alcohol, praying five times a day, wearing the hijab, and Muslim women have all the freedom they want...er....need.
And I see you got caught....you fell for the head-fake about liberation theology.
Liberals know he only said it to hide his support for it.
They know the truth. The facts are a coverup.
They still don't get it!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 10:14am.
There may come a time when these lockstep liberals finally get it. The Church (Christianity) was founded by God… “Upon this rock I will build My church…” Virtually every other institution, religion, consortium, club, social and political organization has been founded by men (“persons” – if you are into PC). Any comparison between the Church and other entities founded by man is vapid, unenlightened, and just plain boring by its lack of reason.
The Christians and Jews have got to go.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 11:36am.
The Islamist nut jobs recognize that the people who have stopped them more than once throughout history from achieving their dream of taking over the world are the Christians.
They MUST destroy the Christian religion before they can achieve victory, and the Catholic church is the largest group in the world. From the Crusaders to the Hospitalars, to the Knights Templar, it has ALWAYS been men of religion who have stopped these morons. I pray to God that they can do it again.
The Jews aren't a large enough group to cause the muslims much fear, but they are hell bent on wiping them out. If Christianity falls, it is over.
How's that Hope and Change working out for you, America?
We don't have to worry about
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 1:02pm.
We don't have to worry about Christianity falling. Christ said the gates of hell would not prevail against his church. I am satisfied that this coming world religion will be Islam. It will be by force. The Bible is plain on that. There will be some that will not bow. They'll be martyered. We don't see it here in America yet but in our countries around the world it is happening.
Ricklail, Well said.
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 1:47pm.
Ricklail,
Well said. Christianity will never end. There will be great struggles and at times it may seem that all hope is lost. the key is to keep on praying, to be well educated and to stand up to the likes of Islam, Secularism, Humanism, Communism and all types of -isms that are out there.
There are many Christians that are currently being persecuted and many are dying at the hands of Muslims. There are many martyrs in our modern world. Sad that the Left which proclaims to be so tolerant and against violence embraces Islam, but shuns Christianity.
There is a reason why Islam and Communism go hand in hand in Muslim nations.
This is a little like saying
Submitted by troglodyt on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 11:55am.
This is a little like saying the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan are both fraternal organizations based on race.
It's actually more like saying: "The NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan are both organizations based on race."
Pope Benedict XIV in particular is a longtime critic of so-called "liberation theology," as obviously was anti-communist Pope John Paul.
And I'm sure the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood is also a particular longtime critic of the moderate wing. But both liberation theology and the moderate wing exist within the CC and the MB. It's an odd analogy you extrapolated there.
Troglodyt, Hmmmm....actuall
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 1:43pm.
Troglodyt,
Hmmmm....actually, Liberation Theology is found more in non-Catholic Christian denominations!
It has more to do with mixing Protestant Christianity and Communism and you get the weird, radical and destructive Liberation Theology.
Regardless, you can't be a Roman Catholic if you do not follow the Dogmas of the Roman Catholic Churchc. Liberation Theology is FAR from being Roman Catholic in anything.
However, the point is that it is ridiculous to compare the Muslim Brotherhood, who embraces violence and the abomination known as the Koran, to the Roman Catholic Church. That is not only silly, but plain stupid and intellectually lazy.
But this is a tactic that I am seeing been deployed mor and more by Left wingers and anti-Christian, anti-Cahtolics comparing radical Islam to the Roman Catholic Faith or another Christian denomination. I would like the individuals that do this to compare peaceful prayer by Roman Catholics to end abortion to Muslims blowing themselves up to achieve their goals.
...liberation theology -
Submitted by TruthMonger on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 11:58am.
...liberation theology - isn't that rev white? who is this columnist nut case...?!
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
That and liberal theology.
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 1:04pm.
That and liberal theology. From what I've read he didn't believe in the Bible. To me denying the Bible to be the Word of God is the cornerstone for liberal's theology
I've heard of pastors that
Submitted by TruthMonger on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 1:35pm.
I've heard of pastors that don't even believe God exists! somebody explain that one to me...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
You misspelled the pope's last name
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:39am.
It's Benedict XVI.