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

[The Open Tabernacle]

and Aletha Blayse’s penetrating analysis of Murdoch’s News Corp’s ‘The Australian” newspaper’s efforts here

[lewisblayse.net]

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

[New York Times]

and the independent National Catholic Reporter’s publisher, Thomas Fox, here

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