Crossroads for Catholics

It is perhaps safe to say what Obama and company would like to happen to religion is the following. In their strategy, birth control is just the first skirmish in their greater campaign to officially establish, "secular fundamentalism," as our national "faith." If he's reelected, abortion will be the next "reproductive right" to be added to the mandatory "coverage" menu. Planned Parenthood will become the neighborhood, "worship centers." This also means, according to Obama's plan that the Catholic "dominoes begin to fall."

As weak and capricious as its U.S. Bishops have been, the Roman Catholic Church still stands as the greatest remaining obstacle to this diabolical, "evangelizing." For Obama to achieve his goal then, the Church will have to be dismembered. The weapon? The theological "independence" with which Bishops and clerical academics have dangerously flirted with for years.

The Obama policies would, by definition, mean the the end of most Catholic health care, academic and social services. But would it? Or would it cause a staged schism between the factions, which the Obama policies have cynically created? Would the "social justice" clergy (Marxist), academics, government, and Kumbaya "cafeteria Catholics" organize, a "reformed" Catholicism, a sect not unlike the U.S. Episcopalian Church? This "Catholic" sect would follow the gospel according to Obama. Their willingness to accept abortion mandates and the rest, would make them the natural "heirs" to the "Catholic" social services and health care entities in question.

The other side of the Catholic divide would remain traditional Roman Catholics, under the spiritual and episcopal authority of the Pope and Church in Rome. The goal then will be to marginalize these Roman Catholics as the radicals and oddballs. Parishes would choose whether they wished to belong to a "reformed" congregation, or one subject to Rome. Those choosing allegiance to Rome could soon expect their "tax exempt" status to be withdrawn.

If you do not believe this is what Obama and his "Catholic" Democrat cohort in DC as well as the leaders of much of "Catholic" academia have in mind...well, you just haven't been paying attention.

On the other hand, as a very, very good friend who happens not to be Catholic said recently to me given the assault by the Obama regime on Catholics, "We're all Catholics now."

Last night in NYC at yet another fund raiser Obama eclipsed even the Pope when he compared himself to Gandhi and Mandela. Whatta guy.