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John Podesta said: 'We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good' to help change the Church
Hillary Clintonâs campaign chief helped to create campaign groups to press for a ârevolutionâ in the Catholic Church, according to leaked emails.
John Podesta, head of Clintonâs campaign, says he helped to found two Catholic organisations to press for change in the Church.
In emails from 2012 released by Wikileaks and alleged to be by Podesta, he responds to an email from Barack Obamaâs friend and former boss, Sandy Newman, about an âopening for a Catholic Springâ.
Newman suggests that âCatholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.â Newman refers to this as planting the âseeds of a revolutionâ.
Podesta replies: âWe created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up.â
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded by Tom Periello in 2005. Its chairman is Fred Rotondaro. Both Rotondaro and Periello are senior fellows at the Centre for American Progress, founded by Podesta.
Rotondaro has called for the ordination of women, saying: âI have never seen any rational reason why a woman could not be a priest.â In the same article he says that âGay sex comes from Godâ, and asks whether âany practicing Catholic under age 80â agrees with the Churchâs teaching on contraception.
Critics have described CACG as a âTrojan Horseâ for those who would undermine Church teaching. But its connections to senior figures in the Democrat party, and its intent to change the Church, have not previously been so clear.
Catholics United was also founded in 2005, by Democrat activists Chris Korzen and James Salt.
Catholics United has condemned bishops who deny Communion to politicians who support legal abortion. It describes this as âa shameful attempt to use the Catholic sacrament of Communion as a political weaponâ.
Catholic writer Thomas Peters tweeted that the revelations showed CACG and other organisations were engaged in âdeceptionâ and that it showed Podesta himself had âa very active roleâ.
3/ CACG never used phrases like âMiddle Ages dictatorshipâ to describe Catholic teaching ⌠in public, that is. Deception was and is key.
â Thomas Peters (@AmericanPapist) October 12, 2016
5/ Podesta was silent in the first leaked email â in this one it is clear he had a very active, leading role in these efforts as organizer
â Thomas Peters (@AmericanPapist) October 12, 2016
5/ iâve been writing about CACG and CatholicsUnited as fronts for the Dem agenda since at least 2010. @CatholicVote too. We were right.
â Thomas Peters (@AmericanPapist) October 12, 2016
The revelations are the second significant reference to Catholics which Wikileaks has released so far. Elsewhere, Jennifer Palmieri, now Clintonâs director of communications, and John Halpin, a co-author of Podestaâs and a former Democrat strategist, criticise Catholics who are involved in politics.
In the 2011 emails, Halpin writes: âMany of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC [possibly a reference to the Republican Study Committee] and think tanks to the media and social groups.â
Halpin says the Catholicsâ involvement in the American conservative movement means they must have misinterpreted Catholicismâs political tradition. It is, he says, âan amazing bastardization of the faithâ.
He goes on to speculate: âThey must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.â
Palmieri replies: âI imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldnât understand if they became evangelicals.â
Halpin says this is an âExcellent pointâ, and goes on: âThey can throw around âThomisticâ thought and âsubsidiarityâ and sound sophisticated because no one knows what the hell theyâre talking about.â
The exchange was prompted by a New Yorker piece on Rupert Murdoch which observed that both Murdoch and Robert Thomson, then managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, are Catholic.
Theres the tie
These people truly are SICK. (Q knows what's up).
look at the sun behind Christ. refrenced as lucifer sun emblem
I can hear but i cant speak.
Gloria Vanderbilt and Dali at the Surrealist Ball in 1941
i wondered why it went quiet--had the bastard's volume at zero
should have left it off
Podesta was a papal title.
Look at the WTF i posted above
Good evening!
In red shoes
Aztecs worshipped sun, yes?