{"id":1129846,"date":"2021-12-17T23:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129846"},"modified":"2021-12-17T23:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:28:42","slug":"left-wing-catholics-trash-l-a-archbishop-as-failed-culture-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-catholics-trash-l-a-archbishop-as-failed-culture-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Catholics Trash L.A. Archbishop as \u2018Failed Culture Warrior\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-wing-catholics-trash-l-a-archbishop-as-failed-culture-warrior%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME, Italy \u2014 The ultra-progressive <em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em> has named Los Angeles Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez \u201cnewsmaker of 2021\u201d as a backhanded compliment meant to highlight the prelate\u2019s failure to worship at the altar of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration day,\u201d the newspaper observes in a December 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/opinion\/ncrs-newsmaker-2021-archbishop-gomez-failed-culture-warrior\">editorial<\/a>, Archbishop Gomez \u201cissued a 1,200-word statement outlining disagreements about policies that \u2018would advance moral evils,\u2019 though also offering his prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was just the beginning of what would become a yearlong divisive, pointless campaign to smear the nation\u2019s second Catholic president, a campaign led by Gomez,\u201d laments the <em>Reporter,<\/em> a longtime shill of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18544618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"42\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AP21302450225275.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18544618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AP21302450225275.png\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden, left, talks to Pope Francis as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the world\u2019s two most notable Roman Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. (Vatican Media via AP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden, left, talks to Pope Francis as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the world\u2019s two most notable Roman Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. (Vatican Media via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the past two years, Gomez has squandered his presidency fighting dead-end culture wars,\u201d the editorial states. \u201cThe year was bookended by Gomez\u2019s moves to attack Biden and a year-end speech denigrating social and racial justice movements that do the work of the Gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn an organization whose history is peppered with failed leaders, it is hard to find one less accomplished,\u201d the paper declares. \u201cFor this, we name Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez as NCR\u2019s Newsmaker of 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What seemed to really get under the <em>Reporter<\/em>\u2019s collective skin is Archbishop Gomez\u2019s unwillingness to recite from the leftist script that all Latinos are expected to embrace uncritically \u2014 something akin to Biden\u2019s demeaning and bigoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/05\/22\/joe-biden-you-aint-black-if-you-dont-back-me-over-trump\/\">comment<\/a> that if you fail to support him \u201cyou ain\u2019t black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGomez\u2019s actions have been particularly disappointing given the excitement among Latino Catholics when the Mexican-born prelate was elected in 2019 as the first Latino to hold the post of president of the U.S. bishops\u2019 conference,\u201d the <em>Reporter<\/em> bemoans.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of fighting for the lives of unborn children, supporting the family, or defending religious freedom, the archbishop should have used his presidency to do things like \u201cmake the church an active leader in the racial reckoning happening in our country,\u201d the editorial states, and \u201clead the fight against climate change to save our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18625042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"42\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_20123030533106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18625042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_20123030533106.jpg\" alt=\"Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, of Los Angeles, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), kneels in prayer before a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, &quot;Mother of the Church,&quot; as he leads a special liturgy in renewing the consecration of the United States to the care of our Blessed Mother amidst the COVID-19 pandemic at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Friday, May 1, 2020. As the world continues to face the ongoing effects of the global pandemic of the coronavirus, Archbishop Gomez with the U.S. bishops joined the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday in renewing the consecrations of the two nations to the care of our Blessed Mother. Without the ability to have public Mass and visitors due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels live-streams its services online on YouTube, Facebook and the web at lacatholics.org. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes, Pool)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, of Los Angeles, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), kneels in prayer before a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as he leads a special liturgy in renewing the consecration of the United States to the care of our Blessed Mother amidst the COVID-19 pandemic at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Friday, May 1, 2020. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes, Pool)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Commenting on the <em>Reporter<\/em>\u2019s \u201caward\u201d and the catty editorial accompanying it, Catholic League President Bill Donohue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/archbishop-gomezs-finest-hour\/\">suggests<\/a> that the dissident paper\u2019s disfavor is truly a badge of honor that Gomez can wear with pride.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop\u2019s November 4 speech that so riled up the <em>Reporter<\/em>\u2019s editors was \u201cone of the most brilliant addresses given in Catholic circles in recent memory,\u201d Donohue asserts.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2021\/11\/05\/l-a-archbishop-decries-rise-of-globalism-anti-christian-elite-leadership-class\/\">address<\/a> that an \u201celite leadership class has risen in our countries that has little interest in religion and no real attachments to the nations they live in or to local traditions or cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group, which is in charge in corporations, governments, universities, the media, and in the cultural and professional establishments, wants to establish what we might call a global civilization,\u201d the archbishop warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this elite worldview, there is no need for old-fashioned belief systems and religions,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn fact, as they see it, religion, especially Christianity, only gets in the way of the society they hope to build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his critique of \u201ccancel culture\u201d and \u201cpolitical correctness,\u201d Gomez said that \u201coften what is being canceled and corrected are perspectives rooted in Christian beliefs \u2014 about human life and the human person, about marriage, the family, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the <em>Reporter<\/em>\u2019s editors found the archbishop\u2019s words particularly troubling because they realize they are aimed at them.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 The ultra-progressive National Catholic Reporter has named Los Angeles Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez \u201cnewsmaker of 2021\u201d as a backhanded compliment meant to highlight the prelate\u2019s failure to worship &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}