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William Lindsey :toad:

Tom Roberts writes, reviewing Mary Jo McConahay's new book, Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right:

"A primary concern for those reporting on the Catholic Church in the United States today should be following the money."


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National Catholic Reporter'Playing God' traces the history of Catholic conservatism gone extremeMoney, not religion, is the motivating issue of the Catholic right, according to Mary Jo McConahay's new book. Former NCR editor Tom Roberts' review says the book does U.S. Catholicism a great service.
May 25, 2023, 10:40 PM·Public·Web
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Not the money that comes to the bishops via the standard Sunday collection basket, but the money that pours into alternative organizations from relatively new, independent and very conservative sources. These new sources are well outside the control of the U.S. bishops' conference and are increasingly important in spelling out a Catholic agenda for the wider culture. Here McConahay excels in lining out the players, the money flow, and their interaction with politics and beyond."

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Catholics today, still recovering from the deep betrayal by bishops in the ongoing sexual abuse scandal, may be reluctant to consider that their church is being further distorted and turned inside out by unseemly forces in their midst. But Catholicism in America is metastasizing into a thoroughly American Catholicism, subservient to the culture's most rapacious instincts."


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