* On September 27, 1960 at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington DC, Father Gustave Weigel S.J. (naturally) delivered a speech that gave moral cover for countless putative Catholic politicians (Kennedy, Cuomo, Pelosi etc etc etc ) to be considered acceptable, if not principled, to declare that they are personally opposed to _____ (fill in the blank) but that they do not want to force their religious beliefs on others who disagree with them.
Weigel surrendered what was left of the Catholic Church's remaining moral order in society and were the AmBishops quick to correct him?
Come on...
The AmBishops copied his speech and delivered it to every Catholic in every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in America.
Weigel said (Paraphrasing) that a Catholic politician led a "double life" because he worships as a private person but is also a man of law which is of practical consequences and is the product of no philosophy or theology.
Well, so much for Christendom then...
* Ppg 592-596 "John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and The American Proposition; How the CIA/s Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church" David A Wemhoff.
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