2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWell, clearly the Pope is no longer a factor
We've come a long way from Charlemagne.
Skid Rogue
(711 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Bernie's campaign could create an association of Bernie with Francis's warmth and concern for humanity. It apparently didn't work well enough, perhaps too little too late for NY, but he needed to make a bold move and that's the one they decided on.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Skid Rogue
(711 posts)GoldenThunder
(300 posts)...who can set foot inside the Vatican without bursting into flames.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)They burned Giordano Bruno in 1600 in the Campo de' Fiori of Rome for preaching science, among other things. They burned countless so-called heretics, brought about the crusades that slaughtered untold numbers of innocent people. They have done much good, to be sure, but they are not an organization without blemish so I do not know that I would be putting them on so lofty a pedestal nor do I want to see them manipulating our elections.
That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)Since you believe she is the nominee it might come up don't you think? Somehow I feel that everything you posted would be as forgotten as whether it was Eastasia or Eurasia that Oceania is at war with.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)My position on this issue is very long game and goes way beyond any one candidate. It was enough to turn me from long time lurker to poster. If this had been Hillary, I can guarantee you I wouldn't have liked it. As a matter of fact, had she done that I probably would have switched to Bernie over it. There are numerous things I don't like about this and there's a particular Catholic news article I wish I could find again because it summed up all my issues with this better than I ever could.
If Hillary gets an audience with the pope during the general, I will be just as irate and I utterly despise Trump. I do not like he precedent this sets. Oddly, my phone tried to autocorrect that as president. Even my phone know how bad all this stinks.
That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)My apologies for lumping you in with the people who really do feel anything is ok if their team/party/candidate is caught doing it. Weird as it is for this ex-Catholic to jump to the defense of Catholicism, there apparently are some church officials that are not right-wing assholes. Keep in mind that some of the Catholic clergy (mostly nuns I think), protest nuclear weapons and the School of the Americas (aka the school of assassins, rebranded as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). Whether they do this between raping kids/covering up raping kids or treating unwed mothers and orphans as slaves is unknown to me. I hope the two factions don't overlap.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)But I would take this test. It may surprise you on who believes what. This pope's style may be very different than the last, but his positions aren't all that different.
Who Said It: Pope Benedict Or Pope Francis
That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)I never said that Pope Francis is perfect, just that he's the best Pope in my lifetime. Unfortunately he still thinks, among other things, that women shouldn't be ordained into the Priesthood, members of the clergy shouldn't marry, anti-choice, etc, etc, etc.
As far as Pope Benedict goes, like a lot of religious leaders, he could sound reasonable on occasion(sharing money with the poor and hungry, condemning violence against gays) talk is different than actions. I don't know why he resigned, but he was one of the senior Vatican officials who "handled" child molestation cases. As I understand it, usually by covering it up.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims
"He has read thousands of pages of reports of the abuse cases from across the world. He knows more about clergy sex crimes and cover-ups than anyone else in the church yet he has done precious little to protect children."
Jakob Purkarthofer, of Austria's Platform for Victims of Church Violence, said: "Ratzinger was part of the system and co-responsible for these crimes."
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Then again, I don't recall reading about any abuse cases lately in the Church. Either Francis has stopped this from happening entirely by his miraculous God-given powers or maybe they're all still covering it up.
Cha
(297,655 posts)I grew up in a staunch Catholic Democratic Massachusetts family. They love the Church but they do not like the Church meddling in their politics
Do you know how she did with the Jewish vote? I'm guessing she won that too.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Still, Clinton seemed to prevail in districts known to have large Jewish populations. In Kings County, or Brooklyn, Clinton led Sanders 60-40 and in New York County, or Manhattan, she led 66-34.
Clinton and Sanders clashed ahead of the New York primary on Israel, with Sanders challenging her in a debate in Brooklyn last week to show more even-handedness to the Palestinians and to criticize the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Clintons win boosted her lead of pledged convention delegates to 1,436 over Sanders 1,192 out of 2,383 needed to win. Clinton has the support of an additional 469 superdelegates, or top party officials, to Sanders 31.
In her victory speech, Clinton sounded a conciliatory note over what has become an increasingly bitter campaign.
To all the people who supported Senator Sanders, I believe there is much more that unites us than divides us, she said. Sanders is the first Jewish candidate to win major party state nominating contests.
http://www.jta.org/2016/04/20/news-opinion/politics/clinton-trounces-sanders-in-new-york-with-boosts-from-downstate-where-jewish-voters-concentrate
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)of people with no religious affiliation.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Still, Clinton seemed to prevail in districts known to have large Jewish populations. In Kings County, or Brooklyn, Clinton led Sanders 60-40 and in New York County, or Manhattan, she led 66-34.
Clinton and Sanders clashed ahead of the New York primary on Israel, with Sanders challenging her in a debate in Brooklyn last week to show more even-handedness to the Palestinians and to criticize the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Clintons win boosted her lead of pledged convention delegates to 1,436 over Sanders 1,192 out of 2,383 needed to win. Clinton has the support of an additional 469 superdelegates, or top party officials, to Sanders 31.
In her victory speech, Clinton sounded a conciliatory note over what has become an increasingly bitter campaign.
To all the people who supported Senator Sanders, I believe there is much more that unites us than divides us, she said. Sanders is the first Jewish candidate to win major party state nominating contests.
http://www.jta.org/2016/04/20/news-opinion/politics/clinton-trounces-sanders-in-new-york-with-boosts-from-downstate-where-jewish-voters-concentrate
frustrated_lefty
(2,774 posts)Clintonistas can stop whining about the pope?
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)My issue with that visit goes far beyond Clinton, but yeah, It's clear Bernie didn't get what he wanted from National Lampoon's Vatican Vacation.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I am sorry for you that you don't understand there are people with principles.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)He was seeking a tacit endorsement and many of his followers on this website mused about the potential increase in New York Catholic votes. If there's no meddling in Catholics, how are there Catholic votes? You all knew exactly what this was. You just hoped nobody else would notice.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Typical Sanders supporter. When you can't demonstrate your argument, you resort to ad hominem or alert stalking.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Of course you wouldn't understand that, since your candidate has no principles.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Lol
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)I tried to find this great article I saw the other day from a Catholic site that addressed very so-called pitiful issue I had with that visit. Could t find it. Either way, I'm sorry that you're so angry that your candidate is losing that you have to call me abusive names. If you didn't hate big pharma so much, they might have a pill or two to raise your mood.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)So that's what they call it now.
So when super few of the super delegates switch over because of all the vitriolic and hateful abuse directly heaped on them by Sanders supporters on their social media pages, are those same supports going to give the same rationale you just did?
The only one who needs pity here is you. My blood pressure's just fine right now. All is right with the world and my candidate is winning while yours has fled back to Vermont to lick his wounds. :-D
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)was the best economic system.
So his principle was . . . what exactly?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/bernie-sanders-pope-francis-meeting/478740/
Let these seeming similarities lead us not into temptation: The alliance between Sanders and Pope Francis is profoundly odd. For one thing, Catholic teachings dont necessarily line up with Sanderss stump speech as much as he might like to think. The conference he attended at the Vatican was gathered to commemorate Centesimus annus, Pope John Paul IIs 1991 encyclical that focused on the evils of Marxism and communism. In that document, John Paul II argued that economies exist to serve human freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious. He criticized a kind of thinking that totally reduces man to the sphere of economics and the satisfaction of material needs. While Sanders has called for economic policies that focus more on poverty than profit-seeking and that incorporate goals like care for the environment, he is absolutely a material thinker. He apparently believes that every policy area, from foreign affairs to womens rights, can be explained by economic factors; politics, in his view, is neither ethical nor religious, but rather a function of wealth and class. His campaign-trail preaching seems to be in conflict with the very document he flew to Rome to celebratenot to mention central Church teachings on topics like contraception and abortion, which directly contradict Sanderss platform.
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)he should see a psychiatrist. . . .
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... When what you're going for is a wink and a nod. Sanders supporters knew full well what this was. If they did not think there was any potential of a tacit (as in the aforementioned wink and a nod) endorsement, then why on earth did so many of them here talk about the potential boost in New York Catholic votes. They can pretend all they want that they don't know what tris is but they essentially traded one wealthy and powerful set of institutions for the most wealthy and powerful of them all. It was, by far, Sanders' most hypocritical move thus far.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)I don't get the feeling that Pope Francis especially appreciated all of this. He whole thing felt like a desperate scramble from the Sanders campaign from the very beginning.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,365 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Impedimentus
(898 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)David Brock does not control one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most powerful institutions in the world.