We here at the CMR Institute know anti-Catholicism. In our traveling around the blogosphere seeking out stories for you ungrateful louts we see it far more often than we should.
Now, I knew that Pope Benedict’s visit to Israel would create massive media mischief, outrage among condom aficionados, bile from homosexual activists, anger from pro-aborts, insults from liberal elected officials, and an almost involuntary spewing of hatred from anti-Catholics raising random charges of Hitler Youth, the Inquisition all while conjuring Dan Brown-ish images of the Vatican.
But I never expected all of it in one fell swoop. CMR must give mad mad props to one man who delivered it all. This is a masterpiece of anti-Catholic mania that covers all the categories at once. Ready? Openly gay former journalist and current Knesset member Nitzan Horowitz attacked the Pope in print today for the Church’s stand on condoms, homosexuality and abortion and raised the spectre of Hitler and the Inquisition and took a shot at the Vatican in one little column.
That’s impressive.
Cue the evil sounding music while you read this out loud. It’ll really help with the whole ambience thing.
YNET News calls this little gem: “Making our world worse.”
Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI, bears the responsibility for the suffering of numerous people. The influential guest who will be arriving in Israel shortly is among the most conservative Church figures. The message he brings with him, as a supreme religious leader who according to Catholic tradition cannot be wrong, is not one of compassion, understanding, or tolerance.
In fact, this pope brings a wholly different message: One of indifference, strictness, and religious radicalism.
The days of his youth were grim: He joined the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany at the age of 14 a short while after membership in the movement became mandatory. Two years later he was recruited to an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW plant manufacturing plane engines. The plant also employed forced labor from the Dachau concentration camp.
Ratzinger claims that he never took part in a battle. He was sent to Hungary, where he laid tank traps and saw Jews being sent to extermination camps. He defected from the Nazi army in April 1944 and for several weeks stayed at an American detention camp. Ratzinger and his brother claim they could not resist the Nazis.
After the war he embarked on religious studies and started formulating his strict views on issues of “morality and faith.” Ever since then he managed to exercise far-reaching influence on the Church. For many years, even before he was selected to lead the Church, Cardinal Ratzinger held the powerful post Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office, the historical Inquisition. In that role, and as pope at this time, he further toughened the decrees spread by the Vatican and its branches worldwide.
His strict attitude earned him various nicknames with a clear common denominator: The Enforcer, Panzerkardinal, and even God’s Rottweiler.
The pope is in the fact the person who currently leads the global resistance to abortions and prevents women from exercising their right for their bodies. For example, he forbids priests from mentioning the possibility of abortion to pregnant teens who turn to them in great despair. This is so even in cases of pregnancy as result of rape or incest.
The pope also leads the objection to the marriage of priests, fights against any recognition of homosexual partnership, and in fact gives his blessing to the discrimination against lesbians and gays.
Under his leadership, the Vatican is a fortress of darkness: According to his worldview, the Church must not adapt itself to the spirit of our times, and it must not bend in the face of “individualism.” The faithful must obey and suffer. And they are indeed suffering.
Of all the injustices committed by the pope, the gravest is his objection to the distribution of contraceptives in the Third World. It is difficult to estimate the number of miserable men and women in Africa, Asia, and South America who contracted AIDS and other diseases as direct result of this backward attitude, but we are talking about great masses.
So as you can see he’s actually really really mad at Pope Benedict XVI for believing what the Church believes. This isn’t anti-Pope Benedict, this is anti-Catholicism undisguised. And guess what, this is only Part One. We get another part tomorrow. But what insults could he have left out? I can’t imagine much but I’m giddy with excitement. I haven’t been this excited for a sequel since Saw 6 was announced to be coming straight to DVD.
Remember to check out the Hitler Youth-O-Meter. It’s going even better than expected. It’s currently at 551 mentions of “Hitler Youth” in mainstream media about Pope Benedict XVI.
May 11, 2009 at 1:10 pm
What? He didn’t mention the sex scandal?
If he can’t even manage to drag in that particular ad hominem, then the guy’s a rank amateur when it comes to anti-Catholicism.
May 11, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Jay,
it’s only part 1. Give him time.
May 11, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Wow, that took some doing.
It read like a third grade report…and then…and then…and then…
Can’t wait for part two.
May 11, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Wow, he manages to sink further in part two:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3713561,00.html
Unsurprisingly he mentions the lifting of Williams’s excommunication, and re-instituting “an ancient Latin mass that includes a prayer for converting the Jews from ‘darkness to Catholicism.’”
Has there been a greater collection of pure bigotry and ignorance in one column?
May 11, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Reads like someone that is really depressed and hates his own life.
May 11, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I can’t take this man seriously – he doesn’t mention Galileo.
May 11, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Was he one of the five on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
May 11, 2009 at 5:25 pm
So, no mention of the Scandal OR Galileo?
Pathetic little man can’t even put together a halfway decent defamation.
May 11, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I’m waiting for reference to the University of Regensburg speech in 2006. Seeing how he’ll work that in will be interesting.
Jew or not, this clown seems to want everything including the kitchen sink thrown into the mix.
May 11, 2009 at 8:39 pm
The irony here is while the Jew will quickly denounce/slander juvenile Germans for being forced to join Hitler Youth, you will not see them denouncing the Jews forced to work for the Nazis as police in the ghettos, and later as SonderKomando’s in the concentration camps. And while these same whiners shreek and cry out against the “collusion” of the Concordat between the Catholic church and the Nazi regime as proof the church “accepted” Nazism, you will never hear a word from them on the “Transfer Agreement” between worldwide Jewish leaders and the Nazi regime.
As I said previously, the Holocaust is used and in fact essential to many politicists, writers and wannabe historians to justify their agendas and the myth is much more powerful (and effective) than the reality.
May 11, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I agree with Elizabeth, he sounds like a tattletale third grader…this is the most childish and pathetic piece of journalism I’ve seen in a long while.
May 12, 2009 at 4:03 am
Calling this ‘journalism’ is stretching the definition a bit, isn’t it????
BTW, since when are WE ungrateful louts??? Eh???? Hey!!! Now!!! Grrrr….
Seriously, this IS pathetic… (the article, not you guys)
May 13, 2009 at 3:00 am
What, Vox Nova isn’t more anti-Catholic than this guy?
May 13, 2009 at 8:15 am
As far as the clerical sex-abuse scandal is concerned, a lot of devout, orthodox Catholics (such as Leon Podles and Stephen Brady, the founder of Roman Catholic Faithful — not to be confused with Voice of the Faithful) are profoundly upset with the Church’s reluctance to deal with fundamental issues involved: the protection of corrupt priests and prelates (especially homosexual ones), the failure or refusal to apply canon law to them and the maintenance of a bureaucratic system that discourages accountability, isolates its members from reality and fosters personal ambition and arrogance. The Roger Mahonys and the Bernard Laws have done more damage to the Church –and, more importantly, to God’s Good Name — than all the “anti-Catholic” propaganda ever devised. I wish that Catholics would understand that. Until they do and until Church authorities confront the issues mentioned above, the Church deserves whatever abuse it gets.
Now, Deusdonat to you.
…you will not see them denouncing the Jews forced to work for the Nazis as police in the ghettos, and later as SonderKomando’s in the concentration camps.That’s because the ghetto police and the Sonderkommando members were themselves exterminated in the camps after the Nazis had no use for them.
And while these same whiners shreek and cry out against the “collusion” of the Concordat between the Catholic church and the Nazi regime as proof the church “accepted” Nazism, you will never hear a word from them on the “Transfer Agreement” between worldwide Jewish leaders and the Nazi regime.First of all, the transfer agreement allowed 60,000 Jews (who likely would have been exterminated had they remained in Europe) to go to Palestine and gave the Zionist cause $200 million in return for the end of an anti-German economic boycott. Before the agreement was consumated, Jewish leaders debated passionately among themselves whether to adopt this tactic because they were afraid of making the Nazis angrier. See for yourselves at http://www.transferagreement.com/index.php
Deusdonat, when six million Catholics have been exterminated in a matter of four years by a genocidal regime, then you can talk about other people being “whiners.”