{"id":5371,"date":"2015-09-09T17:04:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2015-09-09T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:22:09","slug":"fr-longenecker-finds-that-conservative-resistance-to-francischurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Longenecker Finds That ‘Conservative’ Resistance to FrancisChurch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conservative but not Resistant<\/p><\/div>\n

Patheos writer Fr. Dwight Longenecker is the latest to respond <\/a>to the Wapo accusations of ‘conservative’ resistance, but he sure isn’t very nice about it or very conservative either.<\/p>\n

The Post lists nothing specific from which they draw their conclusions.\u00a0 They mention Cardinal Burke, who seems to have been sidelined fairly well these days, but little else.\u00a0 Longenecker sees this as proof that there actually is no ‘conservative’ resistance to the Francis agenda among Catholics.<\/p>\n

This article<\/a> from the Washington Post gives a typical progressive slant on Catholic news.<\/p>\n

The headline suggests that \u201cConservative Dissent is Brewing Inside the Vatican.\u201d Ho \u00a0hum.<\/p>\n

You can guess the tired narrative: Pope Francis is the great reformer who wants to clean up the corrupt Vatican Bank, open communion to divorced and re-married people, lift the ban on artificial contraception, give the nod to abortion, make way for women priests and green light same sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Except of course that he\u2019s spoken out clearly against all those things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Talk is cheap, but the UN’s Paris global warming agreement is expensive.\u00a0 “Does Francis care about the pro-death agenda of his policy partners,” a conservative might ask?<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, he\u2019s a subtle worker don\u2019t you know, and he\u2019s moving things along slowly but surely. Here a clever liberal appointment and there a back room deal. Here a little wink and nudge to journalists and there a promotion of one of his liberal buddies and a demotion of one the bad guys. In other words, the Vatican is working just like Washington DC and any powerful organization\u2013it\u2019s a network of crafty cardinals, manipulative monsignors and corrupt curial officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This kind of not-funny sarcasm is a liberal trademark.\u00a0 You’re supposed to feel stupid.\u00a0\u00a0 At least in Washington they don’t pretend to be Catholic.<\/p>\n

Of course there will always be politicking in any organization and the Vatican is no exception. Furthermore, there will always be disagreement and dissent within an organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, but there’s no dissent in the Church Militant. The heresy is all on the outside – or is Father still talking about Washington?<\/p>\n

Is there \u201cdissent\u201d amongst some conservative American Catholics? There is certainly some genuine ugliness rumbling in a few extreme traditionalist blogs, but must we take seriously flat earth\u00a0bloggers who rant about the pope being a communist\u00a0antiChrist, modernist, Jew loving, infiltrator who is ushering in the New World Order of Illuminati\/Freemasons? Probbly not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think we’ve just crossed some of that resistance the Post laments.\u00a0 You can tell by where Father chooses to bring down his hammer.\u00a0 If we Catholics weren’t faithful, sincere, and effective, FrancisPriests like Fr. Longenecker wouldn’t smear us.<\/p>\n

And if you can’t tell the difference between a destructive pro-communist Pope and a conservative, you belong at Patheos, not among the faithful ‘resistance.’\u00a0 There’s more to it than a goatee and a gun.<\/p>\n

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