Why the Left Will Do All They Can to Hurt the New Pope

By Deal W Hudson
3/18/2013
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

When you hate the Church, when you wish for its destruction, or at least for its transformation into another vehicle for secularization, you will naturally do all you can to hurt Her leader.

Faithful Catholics knew from the moment Francis walked out on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, it was the beginning of his cross. The silent prayer he asked for, and during which he bowed, I believe was prayer that he could bear that cross with joy and fortitude, and that his ability to bear it would be provided by the prayers of his people.

Deal W Hudson, Ph.D

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WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - It really didn't matter who the cardinals elected as the new pope. The Left, and we know who they are, hate the Church. Regardless who walked out on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, there would be no honeymoon, hardly time for a hiccup, in fact, before the Left and its media goons started to bash him.

As Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, recently chronicled, the barrage of lies, spin, and accusations has already begun.

When you hate the Church, when you wish for its destruction, or at least for its transformation into another vehicle for secularization, you will naturally do all you can to hurt Her leader.

The Left can't really help it (I can't bring myself to call them "progressives, their preferred self-description) because they are not only left on the political spectrum, but they left true liberalism a long time ago, about the time they left civilized, humane conversation, a form of dialogue that sincerely cared about reaching the truth.

Francis himself, however, actually galls them: A Jesuit who rejected liberation theology ("Oh, the horror!), a South American cardinal who opposed the government on abortion, euthanasia, and gay-lesbian adoption, and, most of all, his lifestyle provides no clubs to beat him with -- he rides the bus, will not live in archdiocesan palaces, and wears the simplest of clerical robes.

In his first public gesture, Francis I bowed to the thousands in St. Peter's Square, as if to say, "I will be your servant."

Some readers may think it hyperbole to claim the Left "hates" the Church. Anyone who by 2013 thinks such a claim an exaggeration will not be convinced by any evidence I could offer here.

Perhaps the most egregious fact of all: Led by the epicenter of anti-Catholic hatred, The New York Times, the Left considers the priest sex scandal a definitive corroboration of all their disdain towards the Church and its moral teachings. Yet, the same media ignore similar, and worse, patterns of child abuse in public schools, the Boy Scouts, and other religious dominations, including Judaism.

The Church gets special treatment. For the Left, priestly hypocrisy proves the falsehood of the Church's moral principles, particularly on matters of sex, including celibacy, contraception, marriage, and, of course, homosexuality. And the moral standard a person strives but fails to attain is refuted. But they fail to notice how their argument leads to the nullification of all moral standards, even their own.

If their own logic leads to refutation of all moral standards based upon hypocrisy, from what moral ground does the Left, who we must presume suffer from hypocrisy, throw their stones at the Church and Francis I?

This must explain why the same critics of the Church haven't registered any notice of the "sex weeks" being held annually at their prestigious Ivy League alma maters like Harvard, Yale, and Brown. At least the Left is honest enough, as signified by its silence, to decline comment on such flagrant nonsense.

The latest from Brown University is a workshop on "The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure." The Yale University "sex week," now over a decade old, was shut down briefly when its close ties to the porn industry were exposed, but was given the green light again by Yale College Dean Marilyn Miller after reviewing a revised proposal, "It's an ambitious proposal, with attention to consent in the present and historical and social contexts overall." Ah, sweet reason reigns once again at Yale University!

Catholics know, and they will pray, regardless of who says what about our new pope.
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Deal W. Hudson, Ph.D, is president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Network and former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine. He is a contributing writer for Catholic Online.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Left, Anti-Catholic, Pope Francis, Yale, Harvard, Brown University, Sex week, liberal, progressives, Deal W Hudson

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Jack
1 month ago
@John, well John... I got my Catechism out and did not find anything that you state as supporting your position except Liberalism is "wrong". Yes, that was there. Thank you. I guess you missed the chapter when Jesus said to follow Him and His Word, not those that are hateful and deceptive. I will go on listening to Jesus and His Word and not take what you say for gospel. Perhaps you on the "Right" are correct, this Church now belongs to those that interpret the Bible for their own political gains. How sad.
John
1 month ago
@Jack McDermott, your at odds with Catholic Teaching. The "social justice" argument that your liberal wing uses is utterly wrong, and all you need to do is get yourself out of Protestant Sola Scriptura (What would Jesus do - Self interpretive Bible Reading) and See what the Church says on all of your Liberal issues. Abortion - WRONG. Contraception - WRONG. Homosexual "Marriage" - WRONG, Liberalism - WRONG, "Greater Good" Social Justice" - WRONG, ProAbortion Catholics Receiving Communion - WRONG.

We cannot even begin to talk about war, workers rights and other "Social Justice Issues" until the above "Non Negotiables" are in-check, especially regarding the most innocent - Human Life of the Unborn in the false name of "Reproductive Choice".

I recommend that you get a copy of the Catechism and read it
John
1 month ago
Unfortunately, the aging liberals and leftists are actually throughout the Church.... And they are killing it. It hurts me to read about all of the horrors that have come upon Her since Vatican II (I'm too young). The idea of Pro-abortion Catholics is CRAZY!? Pro-Homosexual Catholics, Catholic-Vote getting Barack Obama re-elected??!! Nancy Pelosi reciecving Communion, while Bishops ignore Canon Law 915? What is going on with our Church, when we sit in the pews and listen to hippie folk songs being strummed by aging hippie women, Alter girls, instead of Gregorian chants, and a Masculine Sacrifice (which is what the Mass should be) - I think its obvious what the problem is. Vatican II, and its rush to try to appease Protestants (and some say to remove "Catholicism, all-together) has killed the Church since it's inception.

Is it time that the Church Leaders totally scrap Vatican II, which has shown to kill not only the number of laity, but SERIOUSLY kill the numbers of strong male priests?? (see CDl. Mahoney)?
wicket
1 month ago
The author seems to disdain the "left" just as much as he describes their disdain for the church.
Michael
1 month ago
This is a good article. However, it's not just 'The Left' who are anti-Catholic, people across the political spectrum attack God, believers and the Bible. It's a spiritual battle.

www.principalitiesandpowers.org
Lazaro Alvarez, Jr
1 month ago
It is incomprehensible for me to understand an article like this. It lacks Chrisian love and it confuses politics and Christianity.
DLL
1 month ago
Do not think in terms of being to the right or to the left,rather think in terms of being obedient to God as Christ was obedient,even to his suffering of death on a cross. To love is to obey God. " Not my will but Gods will be done on earth as it is in Heaven"! What is Heaven? To be in Heaven is where all are obedient to God,all there have Become Christlike! Easter is to be alive in a Holy Spirit that has united itself to Christ. The real Resurrection for all,is to live a Christlike existence. Fortunately all can do that now on earth. Heaven is eternal harmony. God loves all without exception,no favorites,but to love God is to obey God. We must all open our hearts to God. God is love! Let the love for God enter each human heart. Amen! In Christ all have become free to conquer all sin. Sin is the obstacle. Impediment is to resist God and that is what creates the extremes of the right or the left viewpoints. God is a moderator whose goal is for all to find loving solutions that none would ever choose to deny. The perfect solution is a Holy choice that guarantees perfect freedom. To obey God is perfect freedom for all.
Max
1 month ago
The article above describe the feelings of some of the more traditionalist (as more attuned to XIX century pietism, and rigorist point of view, more of Augustine than of Aquinas) among us Catholics, they feel somewhat threatened by a Latin American Pope, not in tune with their traditions more anchored in North European and Irish traditions, than Spanish (and particularly Spanish American) or Italian traditions, but the predominance of the European (including anglo catholics in the United States) outlook for the Church is at its end, because most catholics are no longer in Europe, most are in Latin American, which together with the Hispanics in the U.S.,and the catholics in Africa now constitute the absolute majority in the Church... More guitars and drums at Mass..., an option for the poor (as stated by the Latin American bishops many years ago).
As the Liberation theology, I think people have to take into consideration 2 documents of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued during "beato" John Paul II, (and Benedict XVI, as Prefect Ratzinger, at the time):
"Some aspects of the Liberation Theology" which contained censure for "some aspects" (Some of the Liberation theologians were subject to specific sanction by said Congregation).
And "Freedom and Liberation" which acknowledged the compatibility of the Liberation Theology, cleansed of Marxist encroachments, with the theological tradition of the Church, in all is diversity. And this second reading of the Liberation Theology IS NOT ALIEN to HH Pope Francis.
Peace and good
Max
Bill Sr.
1 month ago
It is not simply left or right that is causing our problems, it is EVIL and we can't seem to recognize it to same our souls even when it is staring us in the face.

I have come to accept that it is not so much that men are guilty of doubting the existence of a loving God and the goodness of mankind which is causing all the worlds problems. Like it or not we are not simply wandering evolutionary inhabitants of an isolated planet. Our accomplishments prove we are the exceptional creatures on this earth and we also have a nature or free will "spirit" unlike all the others here in that we are conscience of our being endowed with that exception and know its source and how it came to be.
We are and forever have been adrift and unstable because we did not and do not allow our conscience the full and absolute understanding and acknowledgment that spirits of evil also exist here with the active desire to corrupt mankind and the world in order to destroy our Creators plan by capturing and holding hostage as many of us who dare submit to the temptation to ignore their existence or intentions.
We need to realize that conditions in our world are for the most part routinely determined by and through the activities of mankind based on the decisions we make with the use of our innate intellect guided by the spiritual consciousness we develop and maintain as a part of our natural and individual perspective of mankind's Creator and his plan for us.
Those who do not integrate this "trinity of truth" into their conscience have little hope of forming an effective base for sound judgment or decision making in their daily lives and particularly in the spiritual awareness aspect of their thought and analysis.
It is not at all unreasonable then to say that denying the presence and power of that creature from the garden of Eden and his many evil forces working 24/7 to divert our thoughts and attention from the tender love and gentle guidance of the Creator which all Christians have acknowledged could be the single most devastating threat to our individual happiness and society in general.
An awakening of our conscience to this presence is an urgent but necessary call for spiritual awareness. We must acknowledge the Evil enemy present often within the hearts of those governing us or attempting to set the moral concepts and values of our society who roam the earth day and night to capture and/or destroy those who fail to recognize him or admit his existence.
Helen
1 month ago
Please pray my husbands SSI comes in very soon, his health improves so he may have his quad by pass soon with success, and we can get moved and settled into our own home. All is possible in Christ name. Amen

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