False charges of ‘anti-Catholicism’ are anti-Catholic

By Nicholas P. Cafardi | 17 hours ago

(RNS) It seems that back in 2011, two Catholics who are now, five years later, working for the campaign of Hillary Clinton apparently exchanged private emails with another Catholic who does not work for the campaign.

In their exchange they were bold enough to openly criticize rich, conservative Catholics whose political views ignored the church’s rich heritage of social justice teachings — teachings based on the command to care for the least among us, as Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew.

I say “apparently” because these private emails — among Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, campaign spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri, and John Halpin of the Center for American Progress — come from WikiLeaks, which U.S. intelligence agencies say got them from “Russian state actors,” i.e., the Russian government. Now and in the past, the Russians have altered stolen documents before they released them.

Whatever the accuracy of the leaked remarks (Halpin says he did write the email with his name on it), the publication of this private email exchange has given way to ongoing eruptions in the right-wing Catholic blogosphere and from some hierarchs who should know better.

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