Not A Monolith

Beware Label Appropriators

You are not the Confessor of Me.

There are a number of groups out there who call themselves "Catholic" this or that- and Papal bag carriers. They don't all agree. They don't all vote for the same things or hold the same things to be true. They each have varied clerical adherents. The ones on the right tend to be more slanderous of the ones on the left making names up about them- like Catholic Lite or Catholyk, as though they had different Gods. There is a guy who because the Pope champions lay movements took that to mean he was directly endorsing specifically him and titled a blog post something like What Benedict thinks of Meeeeeeeeee:-)

There is another Catholic group with a petition out to call out the conservatism of a group run by a guy raking in PERSONALLY close to half a million to incite ire over culture war stuff (he probably secretly uses words like fag after a few guiness, just a hunch)- name Donohoe or Donohue (can't keep them straight)- Catholic League with a twenty-some Mil. warchest for 2012. Take it seriously. Seriously scary.

Word to the wise- anything calling themselves THE this or that Catholic thing or Papist thing speaks basically for himself and anyone else he can convince to join him to guest blog or donate- the Catholic world is not a monolith as much as the Dominicans want to run another inquisition.

One thing I do agree with Wuerl about- these virulent Obama haters should tone it down a bit. It's unbecoming a Catholic. We are supposed to pray for those in civil authority-because scripture teaches they are there because God put them there- with the help of all those Catholyks.