Conservative U.S. Catholics Feel Left Out of the Pope’s Embrace

[tenderfoot]

Look! An Anti-Pope Francis article!


When Pope Francis was elected in March, Bridget Kurt received a small prayer card with his picture at her church and put it up on her refrigerator at home, next to pictures of her friends and her favorite saints.

She is a regular attender of Mass, a longtime stalwart in her church’s anti-abortion movement and a believer that all the church’s doctrines are true and beautiful and should be obeyed. She loved the last two popes, and keeps a scrapbook with memorabilia from her road trip to Denver in 1993 to see Pope John Paul II at World Youth Day.

But Ms. Kurt recently took the Pope Francis prayer card down and threw it away.

“It seems he’s focusing on bringing back the left that’s fallen away, but what about the conservatives?” said Ms. Kurt, a hospice community educator. “Even when it was discouraging working in pro-life, you always felt like Mother Teresa was on your side and the popes were encouraging you. Now I feel kind of thrown under the bus.”

link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/us/conservative-us-catholics-feel-left-out-of-the-popes-embrace.html

[pangaia]

1. Tough luck, Bridget.

Stuff Happens.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Is Ms. Kurt a 'cafeteria Catholic?'

It appears that she's willing to go along with all manner of papal bull - as long as it agrees with her hard-line theology. It's my opinion that, if one is going to tout one's religiosity, one cannot treat that religion as a cafeteria - picking and choosing only those tasty bits which one considers worthy of acceptance.

[meow2u3]

3. The only cafeteria Catholics

are on the left. Right-wing Catholics are perfect--God told them so.