The following was posted last July....after Pope Francis removed the conservative head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and replaced him with another Jesuit....and it compares two books written thirty years apart by Catholic authors. WorldNetDaily is today reporting on the latest controversy concerning Marxism and the current papal administration. You can read that article titled "Vatican: China Best Example of Church's Social Doctrine" on wnd.com. The article quotes both George Neumayr from the following post and Paul Kengor, the author of the book that I highly recommend as a primer on Communism!
Vatican Politics....And Politics Of The Vatican
Malachi Martin had an interesting resume. He was in the Vatican as a secretary to a Jesuit Cardinal during the Second Vatican Council years. A Jesuit priest himself, he was at one time a Vatican academic. He was the author of many books, interviewed often and a religious editor for the National Review. He had a private meeting with Pope John Paul II in his final years before he died in 1999 as the result of a mysterious fall. At the time he was writing yet another of his very controversial religious and geopolitical books. He had many supporters and many detractors. I wrote a post in 2015 that I titled The God Of Marxism on his book The Jesuits, The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. The last posting was this past May 17th under the heading Butterflies Are Free if you are interested. I'll give you one sentence from my post..."The United States went from Ronald Reagan to the Marxist Barack Obama in 20 years while the Roman Catholic church went from the virulently anti-communist John Paul II to the Jesuit Pope Francis in 8 years!" A short summary of The Jesuits would be that from their founding they were defenders of the papacy but in the twentieth century they had embraced Liberation Theology, essentially becoming enemies of the papacy. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI were involved in a fierce battle with the Jesuits within the church. As you know, Pope Benedict became the first Pope in 500 years to resign and his successor was the first Jesuit pope....Pope Francis.
I don't know what George Neumayr thinks about the writings of Malachi Martin but his own book that was released not that long ago seems to pick up where Martin's 1987 book The Jesuits left off. The title of Mr. Neumayr's book is The Political Pope, How Pope Francis Is Delighting The Liberal Left And Abandoning Conservatives. Mr. Neumayr also has an impressive resume as an author and contributing editor to The American Spectator. He was also an op-ed editor for Investor's Business Daily. He was a former editor at the Catholic World Report and former media fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
I would think that traditional Roman Catholics would read every word of this book because the same Marxist/Conservative battle that has been going on in American politics is going on in the Vatican. Mr. Neumayr states, and I've heard it before, that Liberation Theology..."was born in the KGB." Pope Benedict is said to purport that this theology conceals Marxist dialectics through a "seemingly harmless advocacy for the lower classes."
According to the author... "as liberals once said of Barack Obama, (Pope Francis) is the 'one they (the global Left) have been waiting for'." George Neumayr gives names throughout the book of those in Rome who oppose Pope Francis, many of whom were demoted, and those who support him and were promoted en masse as allies. The author notes the mysterious resignation of Pope Benedict XVI but offers no clues as to why this happened. According to the author on the reasons for the resignation..."they remain murky." Those in the Pittsburgh area might be interested in George Neumayr's comments on former and longtime Bishop of Pittsburgh and now Cardinal Wuerl.
American Cardinal Raymond Burke who was demoted by Pope Francis is quoted in "....we knew we would have targets on our backs under this pontificate. The pope hates American conservatives." Mr. Neumayr makes this statement..." (orthodox Catholics are) generally not happy with Francis but the lapsed Catholics and non-Catholics who disdain Church teaching feel enthusiasm for his pontificate."
There is insider information throughout this book of 221 pages and 41 pages of notes. Every conceivable political issue is addressed as to the opinions, writing and words of Pope Francis. Global warming, Islam, same-sex marriage, the Latin Mass, the Jesuits and even secret societies are but some of the issues documented. Communism is referenced over 50 times.
The jacket cover states that the author "gives readers what the media won't: a bracing look at the liberal revolution that Pope Francis is advancing in the Church." I'll give you but one quote of dozens if not a hundred in the book...this one from Al Gore on his surprise at some of the statement's of Pope Francis...."Is the pope Catholic?"
Vatican Politics....And Politics Of The Vatican
Malachi Martin had an interesting resume. He was in the Vatican as a secretary to a Jesuit Cardinal during the Second Vatican Council years. A Jesuit priest himself, he was at one time a Vatican academic. He was the author of many books, interviewed often and a religious editor for the National Review. He had a private meeting with Pope John Paul II in his final years before he died in 1999 as the result of a mysterious fall. At the time he was writing yet another of his very controversial religious and geopolitical books. He had many supporters and many detractors. I wrote a post in 2015 that I titled The God Of Marxism on his book The Jesuits, The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. The last posting was this past May 17th under the heading Butterflies Are Free if you are interested. I'll give you one sentence from my post..."The United States went from Ronald Reagan to the Marxist Barack Obama in 20 years while the Roman Catholic church went from the virulently anti-communist John Paul II to the Jesuit Pope Francis in 8 years!" A short summary of The Jesuits would be that from their founding they were defenders of the papacy but in the twentieth century they had embraced Liberation Theology, essentially becoming enemies of the papacy. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI were involved in a fierce battle with the Jesuits within the church. As you know, Pope Benedict became the first Pope in 500 years to resign and his successor was the first Jesuit pope....Pope Francis.
I don't know what George Neumayr thinks about the writings of Malachi Martin but his own book that was released not that long ago seems to pick up where Martin's 1987 book The Jesuits left off. The title of Mr. Neumayr's book is The Political Pope, How Pope Francis Is Delighting The Liberal Left And Abandoning Conservatives. Mr. Neumayr also has an impressive resume as an author and contributing editor to The American Spectator. He was also an op-ed editor for Investor's Business Daily. He was a former editor at the Catholic World Report and former media fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
I would think that traditional Roman Catholics would read every word of this book because the same Marxist/Conservative battle that has been going on in American politics is going on in the Vatican. Mr. Neumayr states, and I've heard it before, that Liberation Theology..."was born in the KGB." Pope Benedict is said to purport that this theology conceals Marxist dialectics through a "seemingly harmless advocacy for the lower classes."
According to the author... "as liberals once said of Barack Obama, (Pope Francis) is the 'one they (the global Left) have been waiting for'." George Neumayr gives names throughout the book of those in Rome who oppose Pope Francis, many of whom were demoted, and those who support him and were promoted en masse as allies. The author notes the mysterious resignation of Pope Benedict XVI but offers no clues as to why this happened. According to the author on the reasons for the resignation..."they remain murky." Those in the Pittsburgh area might be interested in George Neumayr's comments on former and longtime Bishop of Pittsburgh and now Cardinal Wuerl.
American Cardinal Raymond Burke who was demoted by Pope Francis is quoted in "....we knew we would have targets on our backs under this pontificate. The pope hates American conservatives." Mr. Neumayr makes this statement..." (orthodox Catholics are) generally not happy with Francis but the lapsed Catholics and non-Catholics who disdain Church teaching feel enthusiasm for his pontificate."
There is insider information throughout this book of 221 pages and 41 pages of notes. Every conceivable political issue is addressed as to the opinions, writing and words of Pope Francis. Global warming, Islam, same-sex marriage, the Latin Mass, the Jesuits and even secret societies are but some of the issues documented. Communism is referenced over 50 times.
The jacket cover states that the author "gives readers what the media won't: a bracing look at the liberal revolution that Pope Francis is advancing in the Church." I'll give you but one quote of dozens if not a hundred in the book...this one from Al Gore on his surprise at some of the statement's of Pope Francis...."Is the pope Catholic?"
