"you're an anticatholic conspiracy theorist" - Hate Mail From A Different Direction Than Usual

I have got to go do an errand, I don't have time to develop a fuller answer.  Here, though, is a passage from a kissy face New York Times piece about the now defrocked, sexually abusive (women, not little boys that we know of, yet) Opus Dei priest, C. John McCloskey III, one of the bigger right-wing media priests of the recent past.  This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about, though it's a hell of a lot bigger than that.

Some priests are known for their work among the poor, others for their learning, still others for decades of service to a parish. The Rev. C. John McCloskey III, a priest of the traditionalist Opus Dei order, has a different calling. He makes converts, often of the rich and Republican.

He has personally prepared for conversion to Catholicism, among others, Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas; the Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork; the columnists Robert D. Novak and Lawrence Kudlow; the conservative publisher Alfred S. Regnery; the anti-abortion activist Bernard Nathanson; and Lewis E. Lehrman, an investment banker and former candidate for governor of New York.

Father McCloskey, 61, is hardly the only conservative priest or minister. But few have his knack for persuading political conservatives to adopt a different religion.

The neo-fascist movement in the Catholic Church is full of money and empty of morals.