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.
Unless those persons named were Muslims or Jews or Hindus, or some other non-Christian religion, getting them to join the Catholic Church is not a "conversion", and they aren't adopting a "different religion."
ReplyDeleteIt's picayune of me, but that kind of category error really bugs me. Unless, of course, the Father thinks the RC is the only Christian game in town, and Protestants are still apostates.
He's more Catholic than any Pope since Pius X, if not IX, not counting that Wojtyla guy. Opus Dei is one of his most putrid legacies, a scandal ridden cult of sexual abuse, corruption and facism. One of several he inflicted on the Church.
DeleteIt's a long time since that extra ecclesiam nulla salus nonsense held sway among Catholics. Those creeps are trying to revive it as a capitalist-fascist cult.