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jfxgillis picks apart National Review Online (and other right wing) attempts to rationalize away the decidedly left-wing aspects of the Pope’s new encyclical. The whole article is excellent and worth reading. Here is his reply to attempts to claim the encyclical is not meant to be political: Pope Benedict says himself it’s a political in [...]
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The Pope’s Left Wing Views And The American Right’s Cognitive Dissonance
July 13th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Christianity, News Discussion, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion 
Tags: jfxgillis, Roman Catholocism 
No Comments »The Pope Not Interested In “Perfect Ideological Conformity?”
July 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Russ Douthat has a strange column in The New York Times today arguing that because the pope’s views cross the standard political lines of America’s left and right wings (denouncing both environmental destruction and embryonic) that he shows “that truth may not be served by perfect ideological conformity.” The church is not a think tank, [...]
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