Calling out evil

the Jesuit magazine wrote an article defending communism. Sure, why not: the various communist governments have only killed off about 100 million folks in the last century, but hey, their hearts were in the right place.

The Jesuits pushed communism under the guise of "liberation theology" for the last 40 years: And this is why there is a huge exodus of Catholic Christians to Protestant churches in both South America and the Philippines.

But why stop at  whitewashing communism? Eccles is saved (a satire blog) writes:

The Catholic case for Nero
From America Magazine, edited by James Martin LGBTSJ.
Following our very popular article The Catholic Case for Communism, we have commissioned Dean Dettloff to write The Catholic Case for Nazism and The Catholic Case for the Rwandan Genocide, which are also bound to go down well with our readers. Today's piece explains why the Emperor Nero was not the villain that is usually claimed, and should certainly be canonized.Nero has had a bad press for his lack of ecumenicalism towards Christians, but we should not hold that against him.
His execution of St Peter and St Paul might be interpreted as showing a certain hostility to Catholicism, but modern studies have shown that these Church fathers were greatly over-rated compared with more distinguished theologians such as Hans Küng, Massimo Faggioli, Cardinal Marx, and of course the Holy Father himself. We can be sure that when Nero went to the Pearly Gates, and found St Peter there waiting for him, the two greeted each other as old friends!

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Eccles is not the only one who is being snarky:

from the NYPost Sabo strikes again: 

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Note that these not only show Epstein but also names NXIVM

the NIXVM scandal, the problem was known years ago ( in 2010 Vanity Fair described the cult, and a 2012 article in local Albany paper had an expose on it) included a lot of VIP's and was pretty well ignored in the MSM.

finally convicted, Hollywood is lining up to make TV shows and movies about this cult.

what's wrong with this picture?

uh, maybe it is the tip of an iceberg of corruption?

They'll make a big fuss about a couple of scapegoats, and of course ignore the rest.

Or maybe they will eventually dig at getting to the climate of corruption and try to name names.

we saw this when, after years of the Johnstown papers covering the scandals in Altoona, that finally a headline hungry DA did an expose (over did it some say) which reopened the floodgates on corrupt bishops that had almost been closed after a similar scandal in Boston years earlier.

The Johnstown paper covered it in 2002, the DA report was a couple years ago, but McCarrick was only "outed" last year, and even then, the web of corruption around him still exists.

Sigh.

 Michael Voris continues to push against the corrupt among the Catholic bishops, 

but now the Epstein scandals are pushing them off the front page.

GetReligionblog, which covers how the press covers religion notes in an earlier article,  how the Miami Herald series covered the Epstein scandal in details, and now has links to an article about many of the leading secular/ anti religion types were his friends.

Don't look for God in Epstein selfies: It's all about who had prestige in elite New York circles

lots of links including this New York Magazine article that discusses how the "beautiful people" of NYC attended his dinners. And not just celebrities:

What seems new, in flipping through the reams of society photos of perhaps the world’s most prolific sexual predator that have been circulating over the past few weeks, is not the powerful and the beautiful who surrounded Epstein, but the intellectuals — the Richard Dawkinses, the Daniel Dennetts, the Steven Pinkers. All men, of course.

A lot of these scandals were covered in detail by local papers long before the prosecutors got off their duffs to investigate them. 

This shows one of the tragedies of the modern MSM: That local papers with honest reporters are going bankrupt and shutting down.

sigh