{"id":4571,"date":"2018-04-28T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/28\/is-william-kilpatrick-too-soft-on-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2018-04-28T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T11:36:55","slug":"is-william-kilpatrick-too-soft-on-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/28\/is-william-kilpatrick-too-soft-on-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Is William Kilpatrick Too Soft on Pope Francis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Vito Caiati writes,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I read your post<\/a> on \u201cThe Church and Islam: Dangerous Illusions,\u201d<\/a> and while I share your appreciation of Kilpatrick\u2019s continuing commentary on the real nature of Islam, I am uncomfortable with his statement that \u201cIt seems clear to me that the pope and others in the hierarchy are enabling the spread of an evil ideology; however, it\u2019s not at all clear that they understand what they\u2019re doing. Francis, for instance, seems to sincerely believe that all religions are roughly equal in goodness. Thus for him, the spread of any religion must seem like a good thing. It\u2019s an exceedingly na\u00efve view, but one that seems honestly held.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not claim that the Pope is a \u201ccollaborator,\u201d but I think that Kilpatrick overlooks the deep anti-Western politics and ideology of Bergoglio, who has expressed open contempt for the advanced capitalist nations to exercise their sovereign rights to control illegal immigration (all his asinine remarks on \u201cwalls, the obligation to admit endless streams of \u201cmigrants,\u201d and so on);  who offered only a highly muted response to the wholesale murder and displacement of Christians in the Middle East by Islamic fanatics (remember the plane full of refugees that he took back to Italy with him: All Muslims?); and who works tirelessly to undermine Roman Catholic doctrine and traditions, which remain fundamental to many Catholics in Eastern and Southern Europe and in the United States and which constitute an important part of the cultural inheritance of Europe.  His embrace of Islam is part of the leftist embrace of this highly dangerous and alien religious-political ideology under the banners of  diversity and globalism. His perspective on Islam is thus not so \u201cna\u00efve\u201d as Kilpatrick would have us believe. Kilpatrick, like so many Catholics, seems fearful of going the full distance and exposing the Pope and most of the hierarchy of the Church as active participants in the ongoing leftist assault on the nation state and Western civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I fear Dr. Caiati is correct.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Vito Caiati writes, I read your post on \u201cThe Church and Islam: Dangerous Illusions,\u201d and while I share your appreciation of Kilpatrick\u2019s continuing commentary on the real nature of Islam, I am uncomfortable with his statement that \u201cIt seems clear to me that the pope and others in the hierarchy are enabling the spread … Continue reading “Is William Kilpatrick Too Soft on Pope Francis?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}