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Another brilliant posting by Jerry Slevin, which asks what will happen now with the leadership of the Catholic church, after a geo-political strategy which absolutely required it to defeat the current U.S. president has just failed spectacularly in the 2012 U.S. elections. Here’s Jerry’s response to that question:
The Catholic Church is in a deepening worldwide crisis precipitated largely by the current Vatican’s failure, inability and/or refusal to deal effectively and openly with the expanding scandal of priest sexual abuse of children. Its aged and apparently rapidly declining 85-year old pope will likely soon be replaced, ending hopefully a long era of almost dictatorial rule. The Vatican’s modern-era geo-political strategy has just fatally failed with the re-election of Barack Obama, which the pope tried hard to prevent. The related implications of Obama’s victory are beginning to become clearer for the American Catholic Church, for the worldwide Catholic Church and for the spreading scandal of priest sexual abuse of children.
I. ARE THE BISHOPS AND POPE NOW CHASTENED BY OBAMA’S VICTORY ?
President Barack Obama has won re-election by a clear MAJORITY of all American voters, of all Catholic voters, of all women voters and of all states. The almost half trillion dollar amount spent trying to defeat Obama, mainly by some tax-averse plutocratic Republican supporters from the top 0.01% financially, including some major Catholic donors supported by various U.S. bishops, was evidently wasted money. All plutocrats must now pay their fair share of American taxes, and all Americans will now have to accept Obamacare, as the top Republican, U.S. Speaker of the House and a Catholic, John Boehner, has just done. The Nuns on the Bus surely left the popemobile in the dust on election day!
The pope’s and U.S. bishops’ political prestige in American elections has just been permanently diminished, if not completely destroyed. The modern-era papal geo-political strategy is in shambles. It is time to let Caesar, not the pope, be Caesar, as the U. S. Founding Fathers wisely intended.
After making such an unprecedented electoral effort to try to elect Republicans and ban gay marriage in the U.S.A., the Catholic hierarchy has very little to show for it. The anticipated lame excuses, such as poor catechetics, insufficient zeal, changing demographics and even the weather, are already circulating, but few find them credible. A majority of Americans just reject completely the social policies that the Catholic hierarchy and their favored Republicans were urging.
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