“‘We believe in assisting all, regardless of their religious beliefs,’ said Bishop Joe S. Vásquez, the chairman of the committee on migration for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.”
That sounds very high-minded until one realizes that the Trump plan is to favor refugees who are fleeing being persecuted for their religious beliefs. This includes Christians, Yazidis, and other non-Muslims. The USCCB, by opposing this, is essentially calling upon Trump to admit people among whom will be the persecutors as well as the persecuted.
The USCCB may have a monetary interest here. This corrupt and authoritarian fraternity received $79,590,512 in 2014 alone — that’s right, nearly 80 million dollars — from the federal government for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration Fund.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Christian Leaders Denounce Trump’s Plan to Favor Christian Immigrants,” by Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, January 29, 2017:
…Now Mr. Trump has followed through on his campaign promise to rescue Christians who are suffering. The executive order he signed on Friday gives preference to refugees who belong to a religious minority in their country, and have been persecuted for their religion. The president detailed his intentions during an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on Friday, saying his administration is giving priority to Christians because they had suffered “more so” than others, “so we are going to help them.”
But if Mr. Trump had hoped for Christian leaders to break out in cheers, that is, for the most part, not what he has heard so far. A broad array of clergy members has strongly denounced Mr. Trump’s order as discriminatory, misguided and inhumane. Outrage has also come from some of the evangelical, Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant leaders who represent the churches most active in trying to aid persecuted Christians.
By giving preference to Christians over Muslims, religious leaders have said the executive order pits one faith against another. By barring any refugees from entering the United States for nearly four months, it leaves people to suffer longer in camps, and prevents families from reuniting. Also, many religious leaders have said that putting an indefinite freeze on refugees from Syria, and cutting the total number of refugees admitted this year by 60,000, shuts the door to those most in need.
“We believe in assisting all, regardless of their religious beliefs,” said Bishop Joe S. Vásquez, the chairman of the committee on migration for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Jen Smyers, the director of policy and advocacy for the immigration and refugee program of Church World Service, a ministry affiliated with dozens of Christian denominations, called Friday a “shameful day” in America’s history….

Richie says
Did the Conference of Catholic Bishops show the same vigor in denouncing the persecution of Christians (by Muslims) in the Middle East? I didn’t think so…
mortimer says
Roman Catholics can only WITHHOLD THEIR OFFERINGS if they want to send a message to their clergy.
Roman Catholics should send their money to the Knights of Columbus who have DENOUNCED THE ABANDONMENT OF PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS unlike loony-toon clerics like Pope Francis who have not read the Islamic source texts, don’t know the names of those texts even, but… preposterously … presents himself as an AUTHORITY on Islam.
Roman Catholic clergy should listen to the REAL EXPERTS ON ISLAM from within their denomination like Fr. Henri Boulad:
“Islamism is not a caricature, nor a counterfeit, nor a heresy, nor a fringe or atypical phenomenon versus classical, orthodox, Sunnite Islam.
To the contrary, I think Islamism is naked Islam, Islam without a mask and without paint, Islam perfectly consistent and true to itself, an Islam that has the courage and lucidity to go all the way to its ultimate conclusions and final implications.
Islamism is Islam in all its logic and in all its rigour. Islamism is present in Islam as the chick is present in the egg, as the fruit is present in the flower and as the tree is present in the seed.
But what is Islamism?
Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the only legitimate law—since it is divine—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything.
Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.”
Alexius Comnenus says
You spoken the truth! Islam is not a religion but an absolut barbaric totalitarian cult, evil and whose aim is the destruction of the civilized world and to Islamize everyone.
Screeminmeeme says
Catholic and several protestant organizations are receiving millions for aiding immigration and settlement of Muslim refugees ( so much per head) so they have a vested interest in supporting the refugee program and opposing President Trump’s ban.
eagle says
It’s amazing isn’t it? The Christian people have been turning their cheeks for the 1400 years for the poor Muslim theocracy disguised as a religion. Perhaps Bishop Joe S. Vásquez should read some history on Muslim theocracy and help prevent the Muslim takeover of the United States. Is Bishop Joe S. Vásquez one of the infidel non-believers? Or is Bishop Joe S. Vásquez a traitor to his religion for the money from George Soro. Bishop Joe S. Vásquez should be charged with aiding and bedding of the killing of the Christians of the world by the Muslim theocracy. Thank god we have President Donald J. Trump, someone that loves America and the American people more than Bishop Joe S. Vásquez.
Barbara says
I have come to a different conclusion. I do NOT believe Islam is a religion. I believe it is a cultural standard. Every society has standards for the people in its society. Every society has to have standards or there is anarchy.
Buddhism, Taoism, etc., are all standards by which society structures itself. There is no expectation of safety and predictability living in chaos. People need to feel safe in order to thrive and survive.
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Islam is cult that is a standard for bullies. Bullies are cowards and insecure. They terrorize those they fear they can not control. Controlling those who are weak and who have been brain washed is easy. Controlling those who are strong and know the truth is an on going fight.
james.mich says
Another very worthwhile charity is Aid to the Church in Need, and Voice of the Martyrs is another one that ought to be mentioned. ACN is Catholic, VOTM is Evangelical, and both include Christians in Muslim countries in the help they give.
joe masry says
they contradict themselves
it is ok for them to say not admitting syrians is shutting the door on the people most in need.
but when Trump says favor Christians because they are the ones that suffered the most, it is not ok. these people do indeed suffer the most they just happen to be Christian.
they are even persecuted in the refugee camps in Germany by their fellow muslim refugees.
Muslim interpreters falsify the translation of Christians answers to get them deported
james.mich says
These bishops love their enemies so well, that they do not love their brothers and sisters in faith, but overlook them. The late Richard Wurmbrand, a Rumanian Lutheran pastor who suffered under Communism for his faithfulness to Christ, noted the same odd behaviour in some clergy he knew. This behaviour appears to be surprisingly common.
Alexius Comnenus says
Reading this article, I thought the same thing. It seems the Catholic Charity has a double face. They did not take such an opposition against Obama’s open pro-muslim preference in the field of immigration. Much more Muslim were admitted than a small fraction of Christian. I would call that HYPOCRIZY!
As a Christian I am very disappointed of most of the Catholic bishops and many priests, not mentioning the Pope Francis who claimed Islam is a ‘religion’ of peace.
What Potus Trump does is for our own protection. In Germany and Italy some bishops have taken some suspicious attitude to befriend muslim against Christianity.
Shame on our Bishops for taking a pseudo Christian position just to safe their money received even at the expense of the Catholic Faith. Lord have mercy on them. I am disappointed to see Fr. Morris there.
Marisol Enrique says
Alexius: You realize that the U.N. (Muslim-dominated club) was responsible for deciding who was allowed to migrate into the U.S., and the official mandate of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Co-operation) overwhelmingly favored MUSLIMS over non-Muslims. Ex-President Obama could have vetoed that, but he always went along with the Muslim majority in the U.N. and other Muslim-organizations (the OIC). He simply didn’t give a damn about Christians, Yazidis, etc. Now that the tables have turned, watch the Muslims, CAIR, etc. cry foul!! What freaking HYPOCRITES!!
Marisol Enrique says
Also, as Robert mentions, the many Catholic charities got huge amounts of money for accepting ONLY Muslims for immigration, so, why would they accept Christians?? MONEY wins over everything!! Makes me ashamed to be a Catholic sometimes!!
Huck Folder says
ME, your 11:04pm
What chance to get the cleaned up IRS to audit
these money-grubbing CINO organisations?
Marisol Enrique says
To Huck Folder: Charitable and non-profit organizations are certainly open to audit. Obama had many audited during his term. I would like to see ‘whistle blowers’ come forward to report illegal discrepancies, activities, etc. of these Catholic charities which would then solicit the attention of the IRS. Now with Obama gone, this will inevitably happen. The top CEO’s of these organizations took tens of millions in salary!! I query ‘how is that non-profit?” They were out for PROFIT only!!
Peggy says
That’s what we are always told. UN is responsible and governments had no choice but to obey. Well, Trump has proved that wrong. Individual countries can refuse.
Look at Hungary and Slovakia. Did they listen to the UN?
We cannot put the blame on the UN. Our governments could have said no much earlier.
Marisol Enrique says
To: Achmed/Betty: The State Department and Obama SHOULD HAVE spoken up against the UN’s overwhelmingly Muslim choice of immigrants to the U.S., but they didn’t. No one said the U.S. had to accept the U.N. choices, but they did. Simply that. They did.
Westman says
Why is it the uber-liberal segment of society that has given the least to their country, made the most demands, and fed most at the social banquet, are the ones most clamoring to give it away along with the futures of their Grand-children and Great-grand-children?
If they would kill their unborn, what could a nation be worth to them? And, even as an Agnostic, I can’t imagine Catholic Bishops, or the Pope, getting in bed with them – as they are doing.
Pong says
You don’t need to imagine, just watch.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Christianity, Judaism are religions revealed by God to Abraham to Moses ending up with Jesus.
Islam is not a religion, it is a a lying ideology crudely devolved from Judaism and Christianity developed by psychopathic people such as Mohammad and those who followed him for their own personal power and benefit.
Robert Lippincott says
Amen, so true, every word.
FYI says
That is true.But you really need to see that the catholic hierarchy is betraying its own flock with the man in Rome at the head…
“Authentic islam and the proper reading of the koran are opposed to every form of violence”
said the pope.
Authentic islam is based on violence.He has clearly never had a “proper reading” of the koran because then he and all his bishops would know that it sanctions all forms of violence,including violence against Jews and Christians.
Many have abandoned the catholic church or else moved to other churches as a result of these treacherous bishops and their ilk .Remember ,it is the men who run the church who are doing this.
Alexius Comnenus says
The Pope Frances is wrong to affirm that islam is a religion equal to Christianity or Hebrew monotheistic religion, because is not. A true God (Psalm 96:5- ‘For the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens’) does not order to kill another human being as muslims did from 14 centuries and still genocide peoples and non-muslims.
It is a false ‘religion’. Many of the Catholic bishops are ‘blinded guides’ .
Dale Netherton says
Iaslam is as much a religion as any other. It has a deity, relies on faith and has a “holy” book. How else do you define a religion?
Jimdandi says
Dale, you are as ignorant as the Pope. He doesn’t understand the political/governance aspect of Islam and evidently you don’t either. Better get yourself educated before making such statements. The religious aspect of Islam is a facade for their aim of subjugating the whole world to their ideology. If they have to kill to do it, they will. Just read a little history of Mohammad and his tactics to enlighten yourself.
Peggy says
NO, it’s a manual for world domination and despair.
Christianblood says
Compare & Contrast:
US Catholic “charities” are bringing 100.000 muslims to America each year:
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-want-100000-syrians-admitted-to-us-this-year/
Muslims are murdering 100.000 Christians each year in the islamic world:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/02/vatican-spokesman-claims-100000-christians-killed-annually-because-faith.html
Frank says
That’s funny the Bishops kept their mouth shut for years regarding abortion so now their concerned about certain refugees ? They also kept their mouth shut regarding sex abuse, give me a break. US Catholics give the most money to the church but I could see a big drop coming.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Communists and satanists infiltrated the Catholic Church hierarchy over the last century to destroy the Catholic Church from within – check out the testimony of Bella Dodd to the US Congress in June 1953, she was a former communist turned Catholic.
https://archive.org/stream/investigationofc1953unit/investigationofc1953unit_djvu.txt
We are now seeing the fruits of the infiltration – Vatican II throwing out the traditional mass, many US and European seminaries teaching and promoting heresy and sexual licentiousness, sex abuse scandal, embracing Islam, etc.
David E Munson says
Follow the money.
cs says
Are they retarded????
Terry says
Maybe not. THEY JUST
(A) LIVE IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE AND.OR (B) LIVE IN AN IVORY TOWER.
A few decades ago, there was a song, ‘ COME DOWN, COME DOWN, FORM YOUR IVORY TOWER”.
Someone should get it, and play it to these religious leaders.
And, I posted this earlier, Pres. Trump-in his order-IS USING LAWS PASSED IN 2015 & 2016 WHEN OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT, BUT NEVER ENFORCED.
Pong says
No, they are not retarded, nor because they live in alternative univers or ivory towers. Every move they make is well calculated. As for children, catholic clergy doesn’t have any, so children are not part of their calculation.
When you think of the reason behind their actions, put emotions aside and think.
Robert Lippincott says
What many don’t want to talk about is, they knock out those Babies every nine months and start “Brain Washing” them as soon as they hit the ground. I can’t remember the number but think it like 6+ babies per family where we only have 1 1/2 per family. Then each man can have several wife’s so go figure and wonder why they are or will be taking over the world. That is their goal.
Peggy says
I fully agree with that.
To give them any benefit of a doubt is to say that somehow they can’t see what the rest of us see or that they are not educated enough and simple folk like them are easily fooled.
Why do we follow simple folk then? We should educate these poor simpletons who can’t read so that they may learn something.
They also must be cut off from their clergy on the ground in ME too. Some of them are screaming for help. How about talking to non Muslims who have managed to get out. You would think that talking to their flock should be a priority for them.
So, how on earth can anyone brush it off as just ignorance is beyond me? Doesn’t anyone ask these or similar questions before they decide?
Carolyne says
II don’t follow them. Haven’t done that for years..
Carolyne says
Personally, I think they are evil. That $80 million dollars just confirms it.
Peggy says
Some are evil and some follow orders but none are ignorant.
Marianne says
I didn’t hear a word from the Catholic Bishops when Obama was allowing every immigrant in but neglecting the Christian ones. Shame on these so-called Catholic leaders.
Steve Day says
Or when Obama banned entry to Iraqi refugees for 6mos in 2011.
Terry says
Just following the pope.
StacyGirl says
Yes, the pope promised to rescue some Christian refugees but then screwed them over for a squall of the devil’s own. He’s a hazard.
Shaune says
Which is why I do not donate to the USCCB. My money goes to the Knights of Columbus, who are providing direct aid to persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
marina says
They are a disgrace to the Catholic faith.
EventHorizon says
Why? The Catholic Church had always been at war with Christianity.
LilyDarcey says
There are different Christian sects with different theological beliefs who are at war with other Christian sects.
Terry says
I am NOT a Christian, so I am not familiar with different Protestant sects being at ” war” with one another.
HOWEVER, I cannot recall ( as an example) Baptists bombing a Lutheran Church, or the reverse, or either bombing a Presbyterian Church-or going into one and shooting it up.
Unlike Muslims.
LilyDarcey says
I agree. It seems that all religions, Christian or not, have learned to coexist with the exception of Islam. Islam cannot even coexist with itself, and other muslim sects. They are always either killing none muslims or other sects of muslims.
gravenimage says
No, it hasn’t. And Catholics have at many times stood as a bulwark against Islam–not these dhimmi bishops, though.
Pong says
The times have changed.
David WS says
Exactly. Right now we have limp wrist pastors, and a confused flock. This too will pass.
Voytek Gagalka says
Since when those monks cared for anything else but their bellies?
David WS says
hey, the monks saved western civilization, including beer.
eagle says
Now we have pot, mary jane,weed, etc. This should keep us all laughing while the Muslims cut off our heads, rape our infidel children and have us believe this is good for us to go see Allah. What a sick society, The Democrats and many of the Republicans need to read the Quran and get some history lessons.Thank god we have President Trump, The American people need to support his leadership. The republican and democrat termites are coming out of the woodwork..
Carolyne says
Vice President Biden once said to Hirsi Ali, “Let me tell you about Islam,” as if he knew more than she who had been persecuted by the Islamic barbarians. She said she merely walked away because she didn’t think she should argue with the Vice President of the United States. But he is ignorant about Islam as are most politicians, except Hussein Obama, who is one of them.
eagle says
I have to completely agree. Thank you for the comment.
Pong says
It is indeed a shameful day in american history. It is shamefull that the religious leaders support moslems, who have been prosecuting christians for centuries. It is shameful that prosecutors have preference over the prosecuted ones. Shame.
Carolyne says
It reminds me of helping a wounded snake to heal. Then it will turn and bite you spreading its venom throughout your body. Muslims are like that.
Jack says
The left has been slowly turning the Catholic church secular for decades. It has succeeded with this fool for a pope.
Phil Copson says
Don’t worry about it – with every expression of outrage, there will be several thousand – or hopefully tens of thousands – of people who come to their personal fork in the road, and think:
“That’s it – it simply can’t be right that the Left, the media, and the Church have come out against rescuing persecuted Christians – I’m going with Trump and the Republican Party on this!”
LilyDarcey says
This video is an excellent example of what has happened to Christian churches, which includes the Catholic church and for those who claim Catholics are not Christian, I will not debate you on that, as this is not the point of my post.
” From the producers of the Gabriel Award winning television series “SAINTS ALIVE!” on EWTN, comes “A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING”, a new feature docudrama on Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing and author of “Rules for Radicals”. The film is a lens into America’s cultural Marxism euphemistically called ‘progressivism.’
With all the radical transformations of America and its religious freedoms, politics, economy, education, healthcare, courts, media, cinema, music, art, architecture; the film will help Catholics and all Christians understand “how we’ve gotten to where we are today” and “what’s behind” the amorality, sexual revolution, political correctness, gender confusion that is destroying our families and culture.
This is no conspiracy theory! It’s the real story of Alinsky and his movement. It’s the classic teachings of the Church with insights from philosopher Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. (who as a Jesuit scholastic was trained in Alinskyian organizing), Fathers Glenn Sudano & Andrew Apostoli (co-founders with Fr. Benedict Groeschel of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal), Stephanie Block (who wrote the definitive 4 volume study of Alinskyian organizing). Actors play Alinsky, Popes St. John Paul II & Leo XIII, Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko & others.”
no_one says
The Church is not RCC. No need to hear heresy.
StacyGirl says
The church is in schism right now. My brother said his priest asked every person at mass to raise their hand and promise to support bringing in migrants. People got up and walked out. This is a very large parish in a metropolitan area. They set archdiocesan records for giving. Now their school which had 3 classes in grades K-8 in 2008 is down to half its size. People know their offerings are being squandered on the importation of terrorists. We need a new church.
Lynn M says
Unfortunately, it is not their offerings that are being squandered but our tax dollars. The religious organizations that bring in refugees receive about $2,000 for each refugee. The refugees then receive government services paid for by our taxes that include cash income, housing assistance, food stamps and Medicaid. The non-profit refugee can bill the government for any services they provide once the refugees are here. Those who believe that it is their Christian duty to take in refugees should pay for the refugees until they can become independent.
LilyDarcey says
response to LilyDarcey:
This video is an excellent example of what has happened to Christian churches, which includes the Catholic church and for those who claim Catholics are not Christian, I will not debate you on that, as this is not the point of my post. ” From the producers of the Gabriel Award winning television series “SAINTS […]
“The Church is not RCC. No need to hear heresy
So how is it Hersey to enlighten Christians and Catholics how Saul Alinsky and socialism has infiltrated Christianity, you narrow minded person? It may come as a surpise to you, but a lot of Christians are ignorant of this history. The film focuses not so much on just socialism infiltration within the Catholic church, but within society, but you seem to have so much distain for the Catholic Church, that you cannot get beyond that to see how Saul Alinsky and socialism have infiltrated all Christianity and society. Interesting, there are a lot of none Catholic Christians like myself who happen to praise this video ” Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing for its insight on the impact of socialism in society and Christianity.
explores the life and beliefs of one Saul Alinsky, often called the father of community organizing.
Sure, he said he wanted to help the poor, but we see how his tactics were no less than wrong and anti-Christian. He deceived many and used and abused elements in the Catholic Church in the process.
Richard Payne explained that St. Matthew gave the filmmakers the classic three-act structure in 7:15-20.
Act One: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves.” In this act we get the story of the rise of Alinsky, where he got his ideas, and how as a socialist/Marxist he began applying them to manipulate people and society.
Act Two: “By their fruits you will know them.” Was there good fruit in his work, or did it lead to a basket of rotten goods?
Act Three: “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.” Here comes the assessment of the fruits which look ready for the trash heap. People at this point should be asking themselves, How did we get to this precipice and is there hope to back away from it? Here is where the Paynes turn up the spotlights to overcome the heat. It’s not a paradox in this film.
The film immediately grabs our attention with the tale of a wolf dressing as a sheep to mingle unnoticed with the sheep in the pasture. That sets the stage for the early years of Alinsky.
Period photos, headlines, and film bring to life the narration of Alinsky’s beginnings and growth in a fascinating way to get to understand the man. The Paynes blend these techniques in a way that keeps us moving closer to the edge of our seats as details pile up about his rise to unholy power.
Born in 1909 into an Orthodox Jewish family where the father was a successful middle class tailor, Alinsky became an agnostic and wanted to help the poor rise out of their condition. But how?
In college he took a social pathology course that, among other things, devalued marriage and family and ideas were constructed in Marxist terms.
“Treat persons not as persons but symbols,” says Alinsky in one of the vignettes throughout the film, punctuating Alinsky’s ideas in his own words. Actor Jim Morlino of Navis Pictures portrays Alinsky as that disguised wolf yet shows his sinister and dark edge, like a commentator in a 50s film noir.
“Life is a corrupting process…he who fears corruption fears life…” he says another time.
“Truth is relative and is changing,” he asserts. Get the picture? There’s a healthy dose of relativism already here in early to mid-20th century. Make truth what you want it to be at the moment.
In his sheep’s clothing he says again, “The end justifies almost any means.” And “You do what you can and clothe it in moral garments.”
That he did, we learn. It all sounded so good, helping the poor improve their lot. Who could be against that? But with what we learn are Marxist, Socialist, Communist tactics?
Of course, he must have picked up a thing or two from Chicago’s mob bosses. Studying criminality on a fellowship, he got to known the ruthless Al Capone and then Frank Nitti who took over for Capone. By his own admission, Alinsky said of Nitti, “I called him the professor and I became his student.”
In sheep’s clothing, Alinsky linked with the trade unions to help backside workers in Chicago’s meat packing industry. A noble goal to get them out of squalor. He befriended a Catholic who introduced him to members of the Church and subsequently parish leaders who didn’t spot the wolf beneath.
The Paynes reveal some telling examples of the way Alinsky worked among the sheep who maybe didn’t realize the philosophy behind the tactics he was about to use.
One of the good examples we get is the conflict when the University of Chicago attempted to expand its campus into a poor neighborhood. Alinsky got the chance to apply his Marxist conflict theory using division and deceit to conquer, casting the university into the role of the big rich bully enemy against his poor group.
As we get other examples, one of the experts briefly interviewed in the film says the organizing talk used was the language of peace and light, but all this was putting into place something different — a great evil coming in like a fog where people no longer see things distinctly. His idea to help the poor was good, but the means were evil.
These short, insightful commentaries come at critical moments from people including Allice von Hildebrand, Father Andrew Apostoli, Father Mitch Pacwa, and actors playing Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko (we think we’re seeing the priest himself), Leo XIII, Hildegard of Bingen, and St. John Paul II, and clips of Bishop Fulton Sheen.
The Paynes bring us some shattered news in the way we learn a number of Catholics thought Alinsky’s way was the way to go to help empower the poor. One was Msgr. John (Jack) Egan who became a close associate and prompted Alinsky to write what would be his last book, Rules for Radicals (which is linked to Marx).
We learn that Cardinal John Cody of Chicago shut down the priest’s office when he realized what was going on with the organizing. But Msgr. Egan was invited to the Notre Dame University where he stayed for several years, working with five priests — four were Alinsky supporters — to form the Campaign for Human Development, convinced Alinsky’s approach was the best.
Msgr. Egan was appointed co-chair of the first Call to Action conference where radicals took over. One recommendation was training Alinsky organizers. At a news conference Cardinal John Krol said that “rebels have taken over our conference.”
It should be no surprise that Msgr. Egan up to a month before he died called for ordinations of women and married priests.
In this fascinating film, the Paynes are cinematic investigative reporters showing us how after Alinsky died, the organization used its Marxist, socialist progress causes to influence every facet of American political power and culture. Alinsky organizing has vastly impacted our society’s culture, marriage, family life, morality and even spiritualty. Over 800 Alinsky organizations are spread throughout American communities today.
As one of his ardent followers stated, it’s guised under the name of liberalism instead of socialism. Alinsky was a major wolf, and there were others. The Paynes make the connection by detailing for us, with names and places and ideas all visualized, the three “hellfire movements of Marxism” that helped Alinsky and then affected Americans.
We’re shocked to learn about Frankfurt Socialism called Institute for Social Research in the USA, to change and bring down America by criticizing it, developing political correctness, the sexual revolution, and gender conflict and confusion; Gramsci Socialism targeting specifically the Catholic Church and transform America’s Judeo-Christian culture from the inside through law, media, entertainment, and family life, and limit religion only to private worship; Fabian Socialism to slowly break down the morals of the family in a stealthy, nearly imperceptible way.
Sound familiar when you look around?
The film helps us understand how these goals have affected our society, politics (some top politicians were Alinsky followers), media, entertainment, families, morality, culture and even, sadly, some inside our Church. We have to be aware of that. St. John Paul II called this culture of death.
We’re reminded the names of the devil are his tactics — liar, deceiver, divider, accuser, adversary, lawless one, destroyer. Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer. Sadly, and tragically, Alinsky said if there is a heaven or hell, he would choose to the latter where he could organize.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
LilyDarcey :
Excellent post on the Saul Alinsky documentary. It is must see history.
Cecilia Ellis says
LilyDarcy and Lion of Judah’s Cub, I agree with your comments. Having viewed the documentary, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” I consider it to be the best that I have ever seen on Saul Alinsky. Truly, it is a chilling, must-see presentation that gives new meaning to the term, “community organizer”. Additionally, the documentary equally assigns culpability to clergy for enabling and promoting this evil, an evil which we now must confront.
LilyDarcey says
I am so glad that there are charitable, open minded Christians who can get past the fact, that this was produced by EWTN, a Catholic Network. This is more a history of Saul Alinsky and how he has grievously impacted every aspect of society and our lives. And yes, it also does equally assigns culpability to clergy for enabling and promoting this evil, an evil which we now must confront, as you stated. I am not Catholic, but I and many of my Christian friends have watched this, and thought it was an outstanding documentary. This video should be shown in Christian institutions, and colleges, however I am sure to show this in colleges which have become so secular, or socialist in nature, it would be like throwing holy water on Satan..
Jean Terry says
I hope some of these people who object to this will remember that Obama did nothing to help Christians, Yazidi’s or the Coptic Church in Egypt. He helped Muslims and cozied up to them. It seems right to me that we give some special attention to the other groups as Mr. Trump has said. Another thing I don’t get is this pope, who I believe is a Communist at heart.
Mr. Alinsky may be behind all of the unrest. It is easy to brainwash people into believing the liberal line, by painting the other side with a black brush. People don’t think for themselves and believe the lies that are told them. It keeps building and then you have, like now, a generation and more of people with whom it is their reality.
Carolyne says
I have never understood why we need to honor and worship a person who says God has called him. I would prefer that God tell me personally that this person was called rather than hear it second hand. I feel that way about all clergy, not just the Pope, although he is the worst of the lot.
If God should tell me that I should do something, I’ll do it. But I will not give that authority to anyone else and I think I’ll have a long wait to hear anything from God.
Peggy says
Clergy know more about scriptures than the rest of us because they have studied them and it’s fine to ask for guidance according to the scriptures but I too, don’t put more worth on others no matter who they are then myself.
I believe that God values us all equally so I don’t see how going through a mediator makes any different and that’s why I don’t believe in confession. God knows what I’ve done and if I am sorry. I don’t need to go through a mediator to tell him or another human to tell me what my punishment is. There is no hotline to God for the clergy just like there is no hotline for me. .
As far as I know, Jesus preached and sent his followers to preach as well but he never said they had God’s ear and the others didn’t.
AnneM says
Good news! With Trump having been elected, concerned American s have started to take America back.
stan lee says
One U.S. President was the individual who ignored the suffering of Christians, Yazidis, Kurds ,other non-Muslims to cause the obvious disregard in favor of bringing in Muslim Syrian war refugees. Incidentally, Kurds are Muslims too, but received little to no assistance until recent, and they also suffered at ISIL hands.And what of the others who amounted to only .02 % of the entire refugee count who were not Muslim? They were persecuted, families broken,with men being executed as ISIL prisoners meant to be killed, women and female children sold to slave auctions, forced into prostitution, forced to Muslim conversion or tortured to death if refusing.
The very reason why President Trump selected those minorities for relief first!
These priests and ministers instead, took the path of Obama and cooperated as long as their agencies were part of the scheme to flood the USA with Muslims, which I still believe was Obama’s exclusive mission.
Christian people of the cloth worked at whatever Obama had allocated to be transported to the USA, and, carelessly vetted. All the minorities together amounted to .02 % of admissions resulting from the Syrian conflagration, and these Christian holy men appear to have lost interest in relieving their suffering, in favor of processing Muslim refugees who amount to 98% of those brought to America.
President Trump is correct IMHO, and I’m very disappointed in those clergy who did their work without regard for the most down-trodden. There is one issue which no one focuses upon, and that is the financial allocation from donating organizations per refugee. I hope the effort did not become a matter similar to selling cattle. In the interim, the corrupt Senator Schumer of NY leads his Democrats happily to churn the mud against President Trump. Does anyone believe the Democrats are really interested in the standards set by President Trump to help the qualified Syrian refugees and not only those who are Muslims?
David E Munson says
It is about time. Islam is using stealth Jihad to intimidate, coerce and silence our opposition to their goal of taking over our country. Start sending their Iman’s home.
gravenimage says
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounces Trump’s plan to favor refugees from persecuted religious minorities
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In what way are these creeps shepherds to their flocks?
Kay says
By comments here, you can see that they are not only negligent of the wider Body but also hurting the faithful at home.
gravenimage says
True, Kay.
Carolyne says
You know, I’ve always resented being taken for a sheep who needs some clergyman to be my shepherd. It is degrading and insulting. I will have none of it and haven’t for many years.
Kay says
Well that’s your choice Carolyn. The reference comes directly from the risen Jesus who told Peter, “Feed my sheep.”
Tommy says
Catholic priests should tell us how they vote. I want to know!
They will burn in HELL for what these priests are doing!
When did Jesus say I had to take care of people, work extra-hard to pay my taxes for people who REFUSE to work for themselves..
F U phoney priests!
Vew3456 says
These are the same despicable people that have stood by while 1500 years of Christianity disappeared in Mosul without a peep?
Carolyne says
And not only Christianity, but ancient monuments which are important to world history. Just like the Taliban with the Buddhist statues carved in a mountainside. These so-called people are animals. We do not want them here.
It seems that Hussein Obama has raised his egomaniac head to pronounce his opposition to President Trump. Of course he opposes the refugee ban. He’s a Muslim. Never fooled me.
Peggy says
I was listening to the news on the radio on my way to work this morning and they said how Obama has broken his silence to condemn Trump.
BROKEN HIS SILENCE!!!!!!
When did he stop talking?
Kay says
And sadly many will listen to him. He’s been so divisive and I’m so disheartened to hear that he’s continuing.
davej says
They spent the $80 million favoring Muslims 99-1 over Christians, now they’re complaining?
Charlatans!
somehistory says
I must call into question the first two words of the NYT story. I think they are not labeled correctly…to call them Christian and Leaders…
They are *misleading* and they are not working for *free* as Christ said, “You received free, give free.” Nearly $80 million…no wonder they are protesting.
Christian Leaders are shepherds who lead Christ’s sheep to spiritual pastures. Jesus never told them to focus on gaining huge amounts of money to endanger the sheep.
Martin says
Where was this argument from them when 98% of the people Obama brought in from Syria were Muslim? How else are we supposed to interpret their obvious double standard except to say that the Conference apparently thinks its ok to be biased as long as you’re biased in favor of Muslims. The Bishops do realize they are Catholics and not Muslims, right? For all the good they are doing their co-religionists, perhaps they should consider converting to Islam.
brane pilot says
A recent horrific video on the web shows ISIL terrorists forcing 250 young Iraqi Christian children to lie in a ditch, some barely old enough to walk, and methodically machine-gunning them all to death.
So what is to prevent the monsters who committed this atrocity from buying a Syrian passport on a street corner, bribing their way into a UN ‘refugee program’, and getting an all expenses paid relocation to the USA?
The answer is: Nothing. UN Refugee vetting is a farce and is doubtlessly corrupt. Letting the UN vett refugees, when countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia chair ‘human rights committees’ is a naked absurdity. Trump is acting like the first US President with a clue in 16 years.
Isabella says
If the Christians in the Middle East find out about this, they will really feel abandoned. Sad and incomprehensible
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Jesus says, “whatsoever you do to the least of these my brothers you do unto me.”(Matthew 25:40) And also: “… depart from me you wicked I never knew you.” (Matthew 7:23).
These are Jesus’ words to his followers (ie Christians).
By his brothers Jesus is referencing his own flock (his disciples/Christians) – not an alien flock that must be treated with kindness and aid (first).
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Who is more of a true Christian, following the words and commands of Jesus — these bishops or President Trump — who so many in positions of power excoriate and call every terrible name in the book (in a most unprofessional, disrespectful and slanderous manner!)?
Kay says
I was glad to hear the Beatitudes read at the inauguration.
Philip Adanu says
They should arrange for those migrants to be shipped to the Vatican city as a proof of their love for all
Eric Jones says
The Catholic Bishops are busy lining their purse rather than care for Christians.
I can assur you that the muslim refugees that the Bishops favor will not be residing any where near the residences of these Bishops. They the Bishops are safe while other Americans are exposed to danger.
Over the decades some of these same clergy organizations have asked for donations for overseas missions or to pay for part time staff. I can not bring myself to donate to an organiztion that brings in refugees that endanger the public. I have experience in working in the non-profit world. I cannot bring myself to work for such organizations no matter how good the money. Its very sad.
Eric
LilyDarcey says
You do know that it is not only Catholic charities that do this, but CBN, which is not Catholic.
Rita says
These Pope-Francis followers strike me as favouring Islam, because there are more boy-children to be had for free, paedophilia is HALAL according to sharia.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Communists and satanists have infiltrated the hierarchy of the Catholic Church over the last century – see my post re Bella Dodd above.
K. says
‘We believe in assisting all, regardless of their religious beliefs,’
So you believe in assisting the persecutors so they can continue to get at their victims while those are lured to believe they fled to a safe space. Excellent, Your Excellency.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Amnesty And Muslim Refugee Costs
From here:
https://vladdi.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/obama-lawless-amnesty-costs-exposed-86846-34-per-each-illegal-alien-child-for-only-four-months/
… and here:
https://vladdi.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/do-illegal-aliens-already-receive-welfare-in-america/
… and here:
http://capitalresearch.org/2015/07/refugee-resettlement-the-lucrative-business-of-serving-immigrants/
Mark A says
I’m Catholic and I cannot agree with the USCCB position on this.
I’ve read the Koran and it has many very clear statements about how Islam views Jews, Christians and all other non-Muslims. Suffice to say that everything Robert Spencer says is in the Koran is, in fact, in the Koran.
I’m afraid I cannot see the point of bringing in immigrants who want to make the rest of us convert to their religion, submit to them and pay them protection money or be killed. (See Sura 9:29)
I have no problem with bringing in Christian and other non-Muslim refugees from the Middle East and other places where Christians and non-Muslims are being persecuted by Muslims but, after reading the Koran, I see absolutely no point in bringing Muslims to our countries.
duh swami says
I trust these holier than thou cretins as much as I trust Hillary Clinton…
Les says
To the USCCB
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded like the USCCB.
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth. Things that are intolerable should not be tolerated. To tolerate the intolerable is to be a selfish coward. There’s nothing virtuous about it nor nothing virtuous about the USCCB condemning Trump protecting America from those who hate us and spread evil like Islam.
Islam is a totalitarian political system like Nazism, Communism etc. but it is disguised as a religion. Catholics especially should understand the pure evil that is Islam. And for the USCCB to advocate bringing people to the USA that adhere to Islam is to tolerate pure evil.
Vatican II and the new evangelization will be a failure unless evil like Islam is called what it is, pure evil. This also goes for your support of the Democrat Party. It’s fair to say that once a political party cites baby murder as a fundamental value, nothing else it stands for really matters.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Excellent post.
Kay says
I agree Les.
And Jesus is not “tolerant”; He is merciful.
Angemon says
Anyone with common sense should agree with Trump’s measure. Those who don’t are either fools, virtue-signalling or both. One needs only to read reports from, for example, Germany where Christian refugees are being tormented by muslim “refugees” because of their religion. No, Trump’s plan is right – asylum should be reserved for refugees, not to their persecutors.
Kay says
Yes
Michael Copeland says
“religious leaders have said the executive order pits one faith against another” (article).
The religious leaders object to pitting “one faith against another”?
These are the same leaders who, for payment as contractors, bring in and impose on unsuspecting communities in USA thousands who are instructed:
“If anyone desire a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him”
Koran 3:85, part of Islamic rules.
Kay says
That’s right. One doesn’t have to look too far to find out about the persecution of Christians (almost without exception by Mohammedens)–beyond MSM but not hard to find.
wisdom says
When Husein Obama was bringing in more Muslim refugees and very fewer christian refugees despite the fact these Christians suffered heavily in the hands of their muslim persecutors,this stupid priests were deafeningly quiet,they were not disturbed all was well.Now they must fight for all,ideots.
politicalqrm says
And the Pope is bemoaning the fact that we’re losing nuns and priests. Catholic population is dwindling also..
Why? Because of their policies which favor Muslims over Christians…. So much for the shepherd looking after their flock.. Many Catholics, (myself among them), have gotten disgusted over their preaching of looking after our Muslim brother and sisters…
What about our Jewish brothers and sisters?
Peggy says
Jewish brothers and sisters? Clearly other Christians are not considered our brothers and sisters so Jewish people have no hope. That’s according to these traitors.
Anonymous says
Whatever the nature of islam may be, one point is clear here. Catholics or those who represent them at the highest level, answer only to the call of money while muslims are willing to kill themselves (and others) in the path of their faith.
The west has been hollowed out by greed and corruption; this is why invaders get a foothold.
Andrew Halmay says
There is no end to the volume of lunacy by folks who represent religions. ALL religions. Sanity will not
reign in this world as long as “men of the cloth” are allowed to run free.
George Kadlec says
Maybe they should educate themselves and read what St. Thomas Aquinas said about refugees. That is, if they know who he is.
Jay L. Stern says
Two things:
1. Islam is a cult, not a religion.
2. With very few exceptions, “The ONLY good muslim is a apostate.”
IQ al Rassooli says
Pope Francis is only following in the footsteps of Hitler’s pope Pius XII who ‘saved his Vatican’ by grovelling to the Nazis
He did not submit to Hitler to save Catholics (millions of them were EXTERMINATED by the Nazis); Pius did it only to save the Vatican state and clergy especially since Hitler had NO respect for what he called “spineless Jewish based beliefs”.
Hitler had great respect for Muhammad & Islam because they are “manly and aggressive”
Francis thinks that the Vatican can be saved from Islam by submitting to it and by totally ignoring the suffering, death and destruction of entire Christian communities all over the Muslim world
Pope Francis: “Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence”
No decent and rational human being having read ONLY chapters 1 to 9 of Muhammad’s Quran would ever speak such utter nonsense and be allowed to stay in any meaningful position
He is most definitely leading 1.2 billion Catholics to self destruction just like the elites of Europe are doing
Under his watch, while hundreds of thousands of Christians have been slaughtered, plundered, raped and exiled, Francis and his Catholic Bishops kept their mouths SHUT
Francis is the worst possible dhimmi Pope at the most crucial point in history vis a vis aggressive Islam
It is obvious that the Catholic ‘clergy’ have more LOVE for Muslims than for Christians
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
MAHA & DTS!
Carolyne says
What they actually have is LOVE for money.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Stop slandering Pope Pius XII.
He publicly condemned Naziism before he became Pope when very few others would – before Hitler took over Germany. He ordered parishes and religious orders to hide and assist as many Jewish people as they could across Europe. He helped save the lives of tens of thousands of Jewish people in Rome particularly within the confines of the Vatican and spent all his private money (his inherited wealth) to feed and house Jewish refugees, including on his family properties. He had families living in his papal apartments while he slept in other quarters. He was recognized by Jewish organizations as one of the people most instrumental in helping Jewish people survive the Holocaust.
The lies you believe about Pope Pius XII were spread by communists through a false play and false history. Do your homework!
Lion of Judah's Cub says
I do however agree about Pope Francis.
eternal vigilance says
The Conference of Catholic Bishops are so arrogant that they feel uninhibited in foisting these refugees onto the backs of unknowing communities and cities. And the thing is that the Conference gets a tidy $1850 of taxpayer money for every refugee that they shove at midnight into our back yards.
Carolyne says
So they believe in assisting all—if the money’s good and the price is right. $80 million is a powerful incentive to be humane to all. Sort of throw it in the air and God keeps what he wants and they keep the rest.
I greatly resent my tax dollars going to Catholic charities–in fact any charity-which is assisting in the destruction of the United States by infiltrating our society with Muslims who want me dead.
TX says
“‘We believe in assisting all, regardless of their religious beliefs,’ said Bishop Joe S. Vásquez, the chairman of the committee on migration for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.” –Since when ? Since decades of open southern borders so tens of millions of Catholic Vasquez’ fellow latinos could enter the nation illegally ?
Barbara says
St Thomas Aquinas very clearly states that a country has the right to define their boarders. The nation has the obligation to determine what is safe and detrimental to the citizens of the country
In his remarkably nuanced commentary, Aquinas also distinguished among three types of immigrants in the Israel of the Old Testament.
First were “the foreigners who passed through their land as travelers,” much like modern day visitors with a travel visa.
Second were those who “came to dwell in their land as newcomers,” seemingly corresponding to resident aliens, perhaps with a green card, living in the land but not with the full benefits of citizenship.
A third case involved those foreigners who wished “to be admitted entirely to their fellowship and mode of worship.” Even here, dealing with those who wished to integrate fully into the life and worship of Israel required a certain order, Aquinas observed. “For they were not at once admitted to citizenship: just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations.”
It would be dangerous and unjust to place the future of a nation in the hands of recent arrivals who do not fully understand the needs and concerns of their adoptive home, We have how true this statement with former President Obama.
The good Samaritan helped the Israelite by taking to a neutral inn. He did not endanger himself or his family by taking him into his home / country.
I will adhere to St Thomas theology over any pope at any time, on any subject.
“In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.”
― Frederick Douglass
The Muslims do not want to have equal rights before the laws of the country. Unequal rights will destroy.
Kay says
from the archbishop of Iraq:
https://cruxnow.com/interviews/2017/02/02/iraq-prelate-backs-preference-minority-refugees-fleeing-genocide/