Oh, how you can get a headache listening to most USA Catholic and other clergy: the Becket Fund laments should any faith's clergy speak up about any issue other than abortion, the IRS will gobble them up as political speakers (untrue, as only being pro/con candidates/parties qualifies...but makes Bush/GOP SOUND oppressive, yet that's "not political"); archdiocesan clergy in Chicago lament they've "given up control" of Catholic universities due to ex officio faith funding by government (if true, official(s) not named causing, so infer from other laments), and it's Bush foreign policy joining with foreign elements teaching Christ wasn't divine plus intimidating clergy into looking like they're pro-gay unions so the position only INFERS clergy support people opposite to Bush (even if the same clergy afforded their own approbations "off camera" to Obama on gay union issues; the Pope is a heretic trying to divide the world with a Crusade against Islam fought by Bush, calling for the same catechism the rest of the world uses to be used in English-speaking nations, and so forth; and on and on it goes...including a stance that watching EWTN will only rot one's mind, said Catholic network viewed by many faiths' members.

 

How can one be sure Bush isn't pulling strings? Well, think back to 1976, when a ton more people in the USA were Catholics...that was the year a new Catechism of the Catholic Church came out, from a French translation having then few cognates in English...and this CCC was for English-speaking only! The same people who call the Pope a "heretic" today were amongst those then latching onto it anyway, even though the Vatican never adopted it; that CCC neutered Christ, went from the filioquee to "in the name of the Creator, Redeemer, and holy essence", stuff like that; in 1992-1994, John Paul II adopted a more clear translation...ever since, the same old voices have given lip service to the new CCC, but acted as if the more derogatory bad translation controlled, on some vague whimsy doing so "buys goodwill" from non-English speaking Europeans and others.

 

Such clergy say the "heresy" of Popes continues where, like Bush, they view Osama bin Laden types as mad dog multi-cultural killers instead of the King Of All Islam and a Crusade victim...they say if we'd just quit "Crusading", life would be safe for the globe from terror, meaning nobody would need armies in English-speaking nations again.

 

Then there's the clergy who insist most English-speaking nationals of ANY nation, regardless of personal demographics, are "spoiled brats/racists/Tios Tomas", and so on, whereas ALL immigrants are "wretched peons of no account in their own lands" who need USA and related shelter; and see, we need to go green and save water for the newcomers aplenty, since this mounting "nation of nincompoops" is incompetent and given to debauchery en route to salvation, needing more HR 1955 "socialist-style warehousing" than expectation of jobs or commerce...it's the price nations pay when they've LOST a Crusade, regardless of anyone's personal DREAMs.  

 

Now, the Pope gets about as much cooperation therefore from his English-speaking clergy as say Bush does from amorphous pols: "Sure, we lip service ya when youse sez da good soundin' stuff, but wese does what we wants anyway den blames youse!".

 

Wherefore, I rest my case that political opinions of clergy amount to little more than imprimaturs (thumbs up) on the status quo , paid for by amorphous elitists...yet such opinions are no cause to abandon your FAITH, since ALL clergy ALWAYS dishrag or wet-noodle it to ANY noisemakers since the dawn of faith; pray for such folks, don't read this or that into congreagtions saddled by them and any related "charities"/schools. But do consider on the secular side if it seems prudent to dissolve numbers of military/police, give remainder Gestapo/KGB powers on say-so of any pol, then spread the status quo to other lands on canard "duh, wese is jus' doin' wut whoever dem ever-changin' amorphous ferren leaders wants us ta do"...in case the buck passing to infinite strawmen one day results in foreign traditional military offense(s) against the USA, or in case the Binster really ISN'T the King Of Islam merely ousting a Crusade.