AP on Conservative Catholic Bloggers
Frederick Clarkson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 10:55:59 PM EST
The Associated Press has a nice run down on the growing influence of conservative Catholic bloggers.  Here are a few excerpts:

Enraged by dissent that they believe has gone unchecked for decades, and unafraid to say so in the starkest language, these activists are naming names and unsettling the church.

_In the Archdiocese of Boston, parishioners are dissecting the work of a top adviser to the cardinal for any hint of Marxist influence.

_Bloggers are combing through campaign finance records to expose staff of Catholic agencies who donate to politicians who support abortion rights.

_RealCatholicTV.com, working from studios in suburban Detroit, is hunting for "traitorous" nuns, priests or bishops throughout the American church.

Thomas Peters, who runs the popular "AmericanPapist" blog... began his blog several years ago and now works for the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group founded by Princeton University scholar Robert George.

In fact, Peters is the Communications Director of the American Principles Project,  as well as its staff blogger. George, of course, has been a leading Religious Right strategist for many years.  (See George of the Neo-Con Jungle Part 1 and Part II).  A 2009 New York Times Magazine profile of George described him as "this country's most influential conservative Christian thinker."

It may well be that the Catholic wing of the Religious Right is poised to  become a force in the blogosphere.




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It never fails to shock me that many of these Catholics hunting for traitors among their midst are all to happy to partner with people like the apostles of NAR who openly and literally demonize Roman Catholicism.  And then there are those who partner with John Hagee who preaches a narrative in which he depicts the destruction of Catholicism and graphically describes Rome as being wiped off the face of the earth.  Of course these evangelical partners have the Right politics and so the fact that they teach a narrative in which there is no future for Catholic children is apparently not a problem.  

To be fair, this is also the case with  Jews who partner with John Hagee, despite his marketing of millions of volumes of books describing the eradication of Judaism from the earth.

by Rachel Tabachnick on Fri Oct 29, 2010 at 09:38:41 PM EST


This is the sort of thing they want to use to force those of us who don't agree with them to leave the church. The institution is more important to them than the message.

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