UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Francis’ No. 1 priority increasingly appears to be to avoid at all costs a US national investigation of priest child sexual abuse cover-ups like the one now underway in Australia.
Francis is evidently gearing up to support his US bishops’ current anti-Obamacare contraception insurance crusade to help the Vatican’s “tax and regulation opposed” billionaire allies, including apparently Rupert Murdoch, install a right wing US Senate in November.
For key background, see Betty Clermont’s perceptive and well documented overall analysis here
and Aletha Blayse’s penetrating analysis of Murdoch’s News Corp’s ‘The Australian” newspaper’s efforts here
Francis’ top “Vatican police” official, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, has AGAIN “smacked down” US nuns, as described well by two prominent US Catholics, the NY Times’ Maureen Dowd here
and the independent National Catholic Reporter’s publisher, Thomas Fox, here
and here
The Australian investigation has apparently already led the lone Cardinal Pell to seek Vatican protection. With that priority, Francis has been busy dealing with related “women’s politics” and almost racing to make all modern popes “saints”, both seemingly aimed at firming key Catholic voter and donor support and enhance thereby protection for his increasingly beleaguered absolute monarchy.
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