{"id":1948896,"date":"2023-06-16T08:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-catholic-hate-has-no-place-in-america-much-less-americas-national-pastime\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:23:34","slug":"anti-catholic-hate-has-no-place-in-america-much-less-americas-national-pastime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-catholic-hate-has-no-place-in-america-much-less-americas-national-pastime\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Catholic Hate Has No Place in America, Much Less America\u2019s National Pastime"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fanti-catholic-hate-has-no-place-in-america-much-less-americas-national-pastime%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=1948896&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>When we first learned of the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 plans to award the vile hate group known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesisters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence<\/a> (SPI) with a \u201cCommunity Hero Award,\u201d we were in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>How could a venerated American institution like the Dodgers \u2014 who play for 4 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone and count devout Catholics such as Vin Scully, Tommy Lasorda, and Gil Hodges among their beloved legends \u2014 celebrate such radically anti-Catholic bigots? Why would Dodgers owner Todd Boehly decide to taint baseball\u2019s beloved legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2023\/5\/rubio-to-mlb-dodgers-aren-t-inclusive-and-welcoming-to-christians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">patriotism,<\/a> faith, and family with a group that exists to defile religious values?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-324058418\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-54ba6e7fe7cd1698466c88238b4e3486 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-54ba6e7fe7cd1698466c88238b4e3486\"><\/div>\n<p>The SPI have gone to great lengths to show their hostility to Catholicism. Yet despite mountains of evidence condemning the so-called \u201csisters,\u201d the corporate media have \u2014 unsurprisingly \u2014 made enormous efforts to downplay the group with descriptions like \u201ccampy\u201d and \u201csatirical.\u201d Anyone who has ever set foot in a Catholic church or knows anything about Catholic teachings, however, understands that such euphemisms are wildly inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>We first pitched this op-ed to the Los Angeles Times. We pinged the paper four times over the course of three days but received no response. We take this as an indication that the pro-Dodgers Times does not wish its readers to hear the other side of the story.<\/p>\n<p>What Catholics hold most dear in life is their faith, the sacred symbols, traditions, and practices of which have been handed down over 2,000 years to the most diverse congregation on the planet. The SPI know this, and that\u2019s why they engage in the most grotesque parodies of those symbols, traditions, and practices that they can come up with.<\/p>\n<p>The organization consists of men dressing up as nuns who take on names such as \u201cSister Porn Again\u201d and adopt slogans like \u201cGo and sin some more\u201d to mock the words of Jesus, \u201cGo and sin no more,\u201d which call all of us to conversion. The \u201csisters\u201d also ridicule Jesus\u2019 saving passion, death, and resurrection by turning the crucifixion scene into a pole dance on Easter Sunday \u2014 for Christians, the most sacred day of the entire year. They are infamous for filling chalices with yogurt made to look like semen, as well as distributing condoms in a gross simulation of Holy Communion. We could go on with more sordid details, but you get the point.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-414bae16789ae61ff5390b92759fdcc6 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-414bae16789ae61ff5390b92759fdcc6\"><\/div>\n<p>Any Christian who witnesses such behavior understands that these offenses are intended to go far beyond \u201csatire.\u201d In fact, the SPI\u2019s track record is so perverse that many Catholics do not know how to respond other than expressing their shock with the very same words Jesus once said from the cross about those putting Him to death: \u201cFather forgive them, for they know not what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers will soon honor this group in the name of \u201cinclusivity\u201d and \u201ctolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would anyone tolerate a group that portrayed the prophet Muhammad as a drag queen? Or a striptease at the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Of course not. But now, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-hits-floridas-dangerous-pro-life-bill-team-desantis-bashes-back\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Hits Florida\u2019s \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Pro-Life Bill. Team DeSantis Bashes Back.\">pro-abortion extremists<\/a> are already unleashing <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/tracker-church-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a wave of violent attacks on Catholics around the country,<\/a> the Dodgers have made it clear that anti-Catholicism is not only an acceptable form of bigotry, but laudable.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the powerful LGBT lobby, we don\u2019t have the ear of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawley-introduces-bill-to-require-15-minimum-wage-for-billion-dollar-corporations\/\" title=\"Sen. Hawley introduces bill to require  minimum wage for billion-dollar corporations\">billion-dollar corporations<\/a> like the Dodgers. So we expressed our concerns the old-fashioned way: We wrote them a letter, and we called and filled up their voicemail. Our request was modest and reasonable. We didn\u2019t demand the Dodgers cancel their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/detroit-tigers-donating-money-for-trans-surgeries-during-pride-night\/\" title=\"Detroit Tigers Donating Money For Trans Surgeries During \u2018Pride Night\u2019\">pride night<\/a>\u201d altogether, even though we believe baseball teams should focus on baseball, not identity politics. We simply asked them not to give a platform to vicious anti-Catholic zealots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bc8a6c9ef61f5b79f79177b12f0c6824 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bc8a6c9ef61f5b79f79177b12f0c6824\"><\/div>\n<p>For a few days, the Dodgers looked as though they would change course and reconsider their grave mistake. But in the end, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-independent-journalist-tayler-hansen-a-riot-that-turned-deadly-what-i-witnessed-at-the-us-capitol-riot\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Independent Journalist Tayler Hansen: A Riot that Turned Deadly, What I Witnessed at the US Capitol Riot\">left-wing extremists<\/a> got their way and elicited not only a re-invitation to the SPI on pride night but an apology for ever having disinvited them.<\/p>\n<p>This should outrage the millions of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, whose voices and religious beliefs are clearly despised by the very team relying on their support. It should also concern the millions of non-Catholic Los Angeles residents, whose team decided to openly encourage and celebrate anti-Catholic discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>We will not stand for these attacks on our faith. Everyone in Southern California should understand that the Dodgers they knew and loved sacrificed their legacy and honor on the altar of anti-Catholic hate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-24d567dea1506a55042782b1c1a67990 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-24d567dea1506a55042782b1c1a67990\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first learned of the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 plans to award the vile hate group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) with a \u201cCommunity Hero Award,\u201d we were in disbelief. How could a venerated American institution like the Dodgers \u2014 who play for 4 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2126,"featured_media":1948897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5374,7378,25316,6208,4107,28820],"class_list":["post-1948896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-america","tag-americas","tag-anti-catholic","tag-hate","tag-national","tag-pastime"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948896","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\/2126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}