The neocon strategy to ensure their candidate is selected pope

[donsu]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/040505Madsen/040505madsen.html


Latest neocon target: The Vatican
The neocon strategy to ensure their candidate is selected pope


The international neoconservative movement, already giddy over their bloodying the nose of the United Nations and Secretary General Kofi Annan in the overhyped Iraq "oil for food" brouhaha, the nomination of anti-UN wacko and Jesse Helms sycophant and racist John Bolton as the next US ambassador to the UN, and the comb-licking and dandruff-munching Paul Wolfowitz's selection as World Bank president, is now involving itself in the internecine politics that will highlight the selection of the next pope.

It is clear that Bolton's major task at the UN will be to dump the African Annan as Secretary General and replace him with someone European and white. Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski's (whom George W. Bush affectionately calls "Alexander") leads the list of neocon candidates.

The dream candidate of the neocons for the next pope is the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn. According to a major neocon media outlet of convenience, The Jerusalem Post, Schoenborn, on a recent visit to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, echoed the Christian Zionist line of George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, and neocon Catholic and New American centurion Michael Novak. Schoenborn referred to Israel as "God's chosen land" for the Jewish people. Responding to the comments of a clearly pained Palestinian priest, who questioned the cardinal on his support for Israel's usurpation of Palestinian lands and homes, basically said that as a refugee from war time Czechoslovakia he understood the pain of refugees. Commenting further, Schoenborn said that was a matter of international law while the Jews' inheritance of the Holy Land trumped international law because it was prophesized in the Bible and that all Christians should embrace Zionism as the fulfillment of that Biblical prophecy.

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It will now be in the interests of Bush's extreme right-wing evangelical base (and Bush's Svengali, Karl Rove) to ensure that someone like Schoenborn assumes the papacy. They are looking for someone who, unlike John Paul II, will support the death penalty and more actively oppose family planning and stem cell research. The evangelicals will also want a pope who will, unlike John Paul II, permit right–wing Catholic clerics to involve themselves in politics. John Paul II strictly enforced his order that priests not engage in politics. It was that order that cost Massachusetts liberal Democratic Representative Father Robert F. Drinan his House seat. The evangelicals will want to see that Vatican order lifted to permit conservative Catholic priests to try and gain even more Senate and House seats for the Republicans in heavily Catholic and Democratic states like Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and Michigan. An absolute majority in both chambers would give the Tom DeLays, Bill Frists, and Karl Roves a virtual free hand in the appointment of anti-abortion and anti-gay judges.
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can the cardinals and bishops be bought and paid for?

silly question. of course they can.

remember - the criminal bushgang mode of operation is BBBT&M

bully, bribe, blackmail, threaten and if all else fails, murder.

[fooj]

1. OMG! More GOOD NEWS and it isn't even noon yet!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Peace!

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Most fundie "Antichrist" scenarios have the Pope as the "False Prophet"

And if a neocon Pope is chosen to aid Antichrist Chimp, that would definitely be the case.

And the dumbass fundies won't even get it, because they will still be expecting the Antichrist to come from "godless Europe".

[Avalux]

3. I've already posted this over in GD

seems they have their hands in everything -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3427581

[sui generis]

4. eh - American Catholics think for themselves by and large

And I think that they don't tend to extremes of behavior regardless of what the church in Rome wants. Many nod and say "that's nice" when it comes to contraception and other medieval rules that affect living life in a modern society, and aren't particularly worried that the high priest du jour is going to send them to hell for voting the wrong way. We have our very own Church of the Holy Roller for that.

Anyway, the reason the modern Catholic church normally tries to avoid politics is because it creates schism directly in the church, which has a destabilizing influence on its own power base.

I think even if they could put Karl Rove in the papal chair they would be disappointed with his relative inability to sway the American flock to do his direct bidding.

[Skidmore]

5. Are they losing their touch?

They should just replace the paper and chalice system with Diebold machines.

[impeachthescoundrel]

6. I don't think this is one

that they will be able to steal. Too bad assholes! You have a room full of honest men here.

[donsu]

7. LOL

nt