September 23, 2013
Bill Donohue of Catholic League discusses the way the left
is responding to Pope Francis:
If ever there were any doubt that the Catholic left and the secular left have
much in common, it is doubted no more. Consider that Jane Fonda tweeted this
weekend that Pope Francis “hates dogma,” and that today we learned from Fordham
theologian Michael Peppard that while the pope “is a lover of traditional
prayers and books,” the “old Q-and-A Baltimore Catechism is not among
them.” Of course, neither quoted the pope as making these comments, and that’s
because he never did.
Whoopi Goldberg, who has made a career criticizing the pope’s predecessors,
loves Pope Francis because he said, according to her, that atheists are going
to heaven. On the website of the New Republic, we find out that New York
mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, outed today in the New York Times as
a former Marxist, shares with the pope a fondness for liberation theology
(never mind that just last week it was reported that the pope’s exchange with
the Peruvian father of liberation theology was “serious and sharp”).
Homosexual Catholics and secularists have never been happier about a pope.New
York Times columnist Frank Bruni is literally screaming “Hallelujah.”
Pundit Andrew Sullivan is “still reeling” about the pope’s published interview
of last week, exclaiming this is “The Rebirth of Catholicism.” The Human Rights
Campaign, a gay activist group, is heralding the “transformative change” that
the pope is bringing. Perhaps they think the pope is going to host a gay dance
in the Vatican.
Frances Kissling, the pro-abortion ex-Catholic, says “the bishops have been
part of the problem.” What problem? Making the abortion debate “ugly.” James
Salt of Catholics United, a dissident front group, is also trying to drive a
wedge between the bishops and the pope. Sister Simone “Nuns-on-the-Bus” Campbell commends the
pope for “saying that the Gospel cannot be used to benefit one political
party.” This from the same woman who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
Stay tuned for more. They’re coming out of the woodwork.