A Jewish woman in Minnesota used several anti-Catholic phrases in reference to a judge dealing with her litigation, perhaps a result of the old, continuing problem with Catholic anti-semitism, which continues even today, as the representatives of the Vatican were the only ones not to walk out when the Iranian representative addressed a UN conference on colonialism with a tirade about how the Shoah didn't happen and Israel is illegitimate. For anti-semites, the term Neo-Con refers to Jewish conservatives. To the merely ignorant, a Neo-Con is anyone who isn't Ron Paul.
Neo-Cath is a term of abuse directed at anyone who is 1)Catholic and Republican,or 2) accepting of other faiths. Estase isn't the biggest fan of the SVC, but if anything was good about it, it was the end of Catholicism claiming to be the only legitimate religion, something that in and of itself created hatred of Catholicism. Perhaps Henry Morton Robinson, author of the novel The Cardinal, was the first Neo-Cath. After all, Robinson's novel depicted a Catholicism that opposed racism and abortion, one that was consistent with democratic government. The traditionalists haven't accepted the fact that we cannot rely on Hapsburg monarchs to rule us; that day has come and gone. Like it or not, democracy is the modern alternative to total authoritarian statism. The Church should not spend too much time pining for monarchy, after all, Britain's monarchs made priests hide in cellars.
Neo-Cath is a term of abuse directed at anyone who is 1)Catholic and Republican,or 2) accepting of other faiths. Estase isn't the biggest fan of the SVC, but if anything was good about it, it was the end of Catholicism claiming to be the only legitimate religion, something that in and of itself created hatred of Catholicism. Perhaps Henry Morton Robinson, author of the novel The Cardinal, was the first Neo-Cath. After all, Robinson's novel depicted a Catholicism that opposed racism and abortion, one that was consistent with democratic government. The traditionalists haven't accepted the fact that we cannot rely on Hapsburg monarchs to rule us; that day has come and gone. Like it or not, democracy is the modern alternative to total authoritarian statism. The Church should not spend too much time pining for monarchy, after all, Britain's monarchs made priests hide in cellars.
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