Thursday, March 4, 2021

Communist Journo at NPR Decries Catholic Voices

Edit: as reported in Wiki, Sylvia Poggiolo of NPR has Communist parents who founded the Mazzini League, named after the evil Freemason and father of morern Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini. Therefore, it's really not shocking she's well sympathetic to Bergoglio's Communist inclinations, and hostile to actual Catholics and even fellow Masonic types like George Weigel, who pose as Catholics giving the media a tame opponent whose synthetic Catholic image they can contrast to their own beliefs. From the article:
JAMES ALTMAN: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat, period. Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches. Repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.

POGGIOLO: That's Father James Altman of La Crosse, Wis., in a video uploaded to YouTube last August and seen more than a million times. Not all conservative Catholics sound so apocalyptic about Democrats, but they're critical of Biden. In a podcast last month with a conservative think tank, George Weigel, who has written extensively about the Catholic Church, said the new president is a professed Catholic who, in his personal piety, seems quite sincere. But...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GEORGE WEIGEL: Mr. Biden is an incoherent Catholic. And incoherent Catholics should not be presenting themselves for Holy Communion as if they were living in full communion with the church.

POGGIOLO: As both Francis and Biden ignore their Catholic critics, presidential historian Timothy Naftali sees potential parallels with 60 years ago at the peak of the Cold War. Six months after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the precipice of nuclear annihilation, Pope John XXIII issued an encyclical. Addressed not just to Catholics but to all people of goodwill, it called for peacemaking through negotiation. A week later, citing the document in a major speech, President John Kennedy was able to win domestic support for a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. Naftali says both the Pope and Biden believe climate change is today's existential threat, and they can work together.

TIMOTHY NAFTALI: These are two leaders powerful in different realms. That's an opportunity. And it's not an opportunity that comes every generation.

POGGIOLO: Amidst so much disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic and on vaccines, Naftali says these two prominent Catholics could also help convince more people that science and faith are not mutually exclusive.

Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Rome. AMDG

12 comments:

JBQ said...

The final name used under the article is Poggioli----Throughout the article, it is Poggiolo. I presume that this was a typo. To clarify, she is the senior NPR correspondent for Europe. She appears to have had her start at NPR Kansas City.

Anonymous said...

^^Did you mean "NCR" in Kansas City? National Catholic Reporter is headquartered there.

Tancred said...

Sylvia’s name was misspelled in the article and she’s in fact an NPR correspondent in Italy, covering the Italian news for smug upper middle-class white people who listen to National Public Radio.

Incidentally, NPR was founded at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, the home of the rapidly fading, evil and modernist Saint John’s Abbey.

I suppose we can take some comfort in the fact that people of Gaybrielle’s generation are doing everyone a favor and dying.

Henk Botha said...

Back on the issue, Altman is a de facto schismatic with a deficient education just like his mentors and cheerleaders, Heilman and Zuhlsdorf. Their wiring upstairs is shot to hell. It's not surprising that these characters, like their Evangelical and political counterparts, are disintegrating before our eyes.

Anonymous said...

Henk Botha is one of many nu church trolls who have internalized the precepts of Catholic oppressors.

susan said...

"Henk Botha" is a testosterone deficient rainbow colored chasable wearing twink who can't tell his butt from a glory-hole in the wall. He also goes by Feybriel, Gaybrielle, Peggy, and Ima Vixen (on Saturday nights at the 'Red-Tailed Rooster'...drinks half price during boys' hour). He's an odious troll....keep your distance.

Anonymous said...

Well stated!
God bless -Andrew

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Peter said...

Tancred, where do lower class blacks catch the Italian news?

Anonymous said...

The get it easily by accessing this site. It's where the Jews get their news updates as well. Quite a service you provide.

Jim Altier said...

Democrats and masons suck

Tom Kirton said...

Why be so restrictive, Jim. My cynicism spreads a lot wider than that narrow field.