They’re Coming for Traditionalist Catholics
American Spectator,
by
Francis P. Sempa
Original Article
Posted By: GustoGrabber,
2/12/2023 8:22:12 AM
Back in 2017, when Amy Coney Barrett was undergoing confirmation hearings for her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressed concern about Judge Barrett’s devotion to her Catholic faith. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” Feinstein said. Two years later, Brian Buescher, a nominee to the federal bench in Ohio, faced criticism from Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono for his membership in the Knights of Columbus. Then, an article in the Atlantic magazine argued that the Catholic rosary symbolized religious radicalism and had become a “weapon” for those dangerous white Christian nationalists.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/12/2023 8:43:19 AM (No. 1400898)
Then why are these woke anti-Catholics encouraging millions of traditional Catholics to swarm over our border every year? All of Central and South America is “Traditionally Catholic”.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cgood 2/12/2023 8:53:01 AM (No. 1400906)
I disagree with the claim that woke progressives worship science and reason. Nearly every idea they intend to inflict on the rest of us relies on denying science and ignoring reason.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/12/2023 9:05:56 AM (No. 1400925)
COMING for???? When we have a President (and also an ex Speaker of the House) who claim to be "devout" Catholics and who wear (as Biden did at the State of the Union) a pin that says "I LOVE abortion" and the Church says nothing (except for a few brave souls who deny them Communion), and the Catholic charities that aid and abet ILLEGAL immigration. this is no longer a Church I recognize or attend.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 2/12/2023 9:06:23 AM (No. 1400926)
Traditionalist Catholic is redundant. You are either Catholic or you just call yourself one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Geoman 2/12/2023 9:41:24 AM (No. 1400962)
Re: #4 - Would those folks be CINOs or is that acronym reserved for Conservatives in name only? Sorry for my feeble attempt at humor; I know the issue is serious, which is why I'm on my way to my Baptist church to pull volunteer security duty, along with a reliable handful of former state police and retired military. If our Catholic brothers and sisters ever need our help, we'll come equipped to lend a hand, or whatever is needed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/12/2023 10:01:02 AM (No. 1400977)
Gee - - I must be some kind of rage-filled subversive - - because I went to Catholic schools - - from grammar school through graduate school - - back when they were truly Catholic.
Twenty years of extremist white-supremacy indoctrination. I'm a baaad person!
Come and get me, coppers!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
columba 2/12/2023 10:15:15 AM (No. 1400988)
I will not be able to read this piece of junk, as I must get properly dressed and drive to the Church so that I can say mass.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/12/2023 10:21:56 AM (No. 1400993)
Well, if the devil worshiping "progressives" are targeting the Catholic Church that's one more proof it's the True Faith. Of course, they are correct about the Rosary. It is a weapon. It is Our Lady's sword against evil. Wield it daily against Satan and his minions.
AMDG
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/12/2023 10:25:41 AM (No. 1400996)
Traditional Catholicism has an arsenal of spiritual weapons and rituals that sometimes defy explanation. The left is right to fear it, as they know Catholics have taken up the rosary in great numbers to fight the evil that is taking over the world. Our Cathedral says the Prayer to St. Michael publicly after every mass. Demons are very real and so is exorcism. Yes, the left should be very afraid, indeed.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/12/2023 10:43:27 AM (No. 1401008)
Who would single out Catholics?
The Communists have for years. They view them as competitors for the minds of people.
The gay mafia because many Catholics and other Christians view their lifestyle as a sin.
The Muslims, but they hate everyone. Not sure they would single out a specific group.
Apparently, this is what's running our government.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/12/2023 10:50:09 AM (No. 1401015)
the church started digging its own grave back in the 60's when it began acknowledging it had a pervert priesthood
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/12/2023 10:58:27 AM (No. 1401024)
Careful #11
They weren't perverse, they were LGBTQ+P (pedophile) and should be heroes to the left.
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#3 - No one loathes Biden more than I do, but he did not wear a "I love abortion" pin at the SOTU. That was the execrable Congressman Ed Markey. Let's not be like the Fake News.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/12/2023 11:24:45 AM (No. 1401051)
Apparently, Catholics who take the Holy Sacrament in traditional ceremonies in Latin are suspect. I can't believe this is happening in America. I'm protestant, but am completely with my Catholic fellow Christians who like traditional ceremonies. This is about us all, not just Catholics, and all must fight. We hang together or separately. Our faith is constitutionally protected, and all who are against us are by definition totalitarians, entitled to the same respect as all totalitarians.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/12/2023 12:41:35 PM (No. 1401107)
On its face going after traditional Catholics is not going to be a winner for the leftist and socialist “woke” Democrats who are apparently forgetting that there has long been a separation of church and state in the USA. No doubt there are prominent politicians who claim to be devout Catholics who put partisan politics over the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church when they believe it meets their partisan political ends.
It is easy to see that with the way Biden has been operating. When it comes to mass uncontrolled illegal immigration, the current Pope has encouraged all developed countries to open their borders and allow unlimited numbers of what he calls “irregular migrants” from the third world to enter those countries, including the USA to make better lives for themselves. It is clear that Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats have wholeheartedly embraced the Pope’s immigration policies through Biden’s “open borders” and “catch and release” unlawful initiatives along the borderline that have been allowing a flood of poor and uneducated third world aliens to gain unlawful entry to the USA, who are illegal aliens under provisions of the U.S. immigration laws that Biden has been disregarding. On the other side of the political coin, it is the Catholic and the Pope’s political position not to permit abortions, a major social policy that does not comport with the US Democrat political position that there should be unlimited abortions readily available throughout the USA. It is clear that on the abortion issue, Biden supports the US Democrat position on abortion and not the Catholic Church position at all.
While Biden claims to be a devout Catholic, it seems that Biden’s level of devoutness depends first and foremost on Catholic Church social policies comporting with leftist and socialist Democrat political policy.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/12/2023 12:45:27 PM (No. 1401111)
Poster #13---maybe Biden took the I Love Abortion pin off during the State of the Union speech, but he definitely has one and wears it!!!! And isn' that slime Markey "Catholic" as well?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dovestar 2/12/2023 12:49:45 PM (No. 1401114)
I respectfully disagree with #1's assertion that Central and South Americans are traditionally Catholic. I would refer to many of them being merely culturally and even nominally Catholic. Furthermore, what the government is targeting is the small but growing segment of the Church that loves and attends the Traditional Latin Mass: suspicious of the post Vatican II innovations, Pope Francis (the Destroyer), and are culturally pro life and pro traditional marriage and raise large families. As Anthony Stine points out on his YT channel Return to Tradition, this group of Catholics doesn't just claim to worship Christ in their personal life and Sunday mornings. The danger to the Left is that (we Traditionalists) give Christ Kingship of ALL of this world and society--not to the government, not man. As the old hymn I haven't heard in the Novus Ordo parishes in decades says, To Jesus Christ our Sovereign King Who is our world's salvation, all praise and honor do we bring and thanks and adoration. Christ Jesus Victor! Christ Ruler! Christ Jesus Lord and Redeemer!
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" To Jesus Christ our Sovereign King Who is our world's salvation, all praise and honor do we bring and thanks and adoration. Christ Jesus Victor! Christ Ruler! Christ Jesus Lord and Redeemer!"
I am a member of our church choir. We sing this hymn quite often. We also sing Latin hymns from the St. Gregory Hymnal. As for the rosary. Oh blessed Mother, please help us. Persecution is upon us. All Christians must be more alert to the machinations of wokies. Pope Frankie has some but few good things about him. However, I'll leave that as it is. He and the German clerics are aiming their "guns" for us. The Catholic church, in their minds must change to more modern teachings. You figure that one out.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/12/2023 4:13:57 PM (No. 1401233)
The fact that "Radical Traditionalist" is a flaming oxymoron should show you how irrational the enemy is.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
danu 2/12/2023 4:23:21 PM (No. 1401239)
For those hunting mackerel snappers:
the true believer feels it in their bone marrow, DNA and ATP;
the killer klowns from deep space feel nothing, outside of their purses.
thus endeth the lesson.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/12/2023 4:28:38 PM (No. 1401243)
Warning, this Catholic doesn't turn the other cheek. I don't care what the manual says.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
FormerDem 2/12/2023 4:41:51 PM (No. 1401248)
fta: "modern American culture is dominated by a woke progressivism that worships not God but science, reason, unlimited sexual freedom, and secular humanism." .... Wait a second!!! Science and reason are part of worshiping God. All truth is one. I try hard to be an honest scientist because every fact is a word He spoke. Most great physicists were believers in the Creator although of all kinds of different faiths. The exception is biologists for some reason. Anyway, my father, also a scientist, said that when he met the Creator he wanted to be able to discuss His work because artists want to be appreciated and discuss things so my father was getting ready. Faith drives science - the first thing a scientist has to believe is there is one law everywhere, which is itself an act of faith, and the second is that you must always see the truth and tell the truth even if you don't like it. In short. Worshiping reason is adjacent to worshiping God, not really an alternative value system. All truth is one.
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Finestein is the last person on earth who should criticize anyone regarding their decency and their faith. She is owned by China and had a Chinese spy working for her for nearly 20 years as a driver and office manager. Who knows how much information he passed on to his handlers in Beijing from her work on the Intelligence committee?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
The Remnants 2/12/2023 9:01:11 PM (No. 1401387)
Who are "they"?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
broken01 2/14/2023 10:22:03 AM (No. 1402551)
Exactly #24. Who the Hell are they?
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