Anti-Catholicism, as has often
been observed, is the
anti-Semitism of the in
intelligentsia.
Thus, when word leaked that
the Vatican, in seeking out allies at
the U.N. population conference in
Cairo, had contacted the Islamic
states, including Libya and Iran,
one knew the scribbling class
would not let slip such an opening
for some good old Catholic- baiting.
"Against all odds", intoned
Washington Post columnist Jim
Hoagland, "the Vatican has topped
its recent act of awarding Kurt
Waldheim a papal knighthood....
The Vatican now finds a moral nadir below even the feting of the
Austrian ex-president and Nazi
trooper.... Throughout history
the Vatican has had to sup with the
devil."
Speaking of supping with devils,
in Desert Storm, did not we
warmly welcome the services of
one Hafez Assad? And if it is morally
permissible to enlist the
Butcher of Hama to help
recapture a few oil wells, why is it a
"moral nadir" for the Holy Father
to seek votes where he can to prevent a holocaust of Third World
children?
And was not Mr. Hoagland lead drummer boy in Desert Storm?
To defeat Adolf Hitler, Franklin
D. Roosevelt embraced the greatest killer of Christians in all his
history, Josef Stalin. To maneuver in
the Cold War, President Nixon
went to China and toasted Mao.
Now, a columnist who praised Mr.
Nixon for dealing with his adversaries abroad with "practical idealism and enlightened realism" is
more than just a hypocrite when
he assaults the pope for making
diplomatic contact with Tripoli
and Tehran.
John Paul II had better
consider the "political consequences
of a jihad on abortion", warns Mr.
Hoagland. Well, Bill Clinton had
better consider the consequences
of what his crowd is up to in Cairo.
Notes Reuters, Islamic groups
"have worked themselves into a
frenzy over the conference, warning that a draft version of its final
declaration violates Islamic morals and encourages promiscuity
and homosexuality. Look for big
trouble in Cairo in September.
after all, we asked for it.
There, America's moral authority is being put behind abortion on
demand, sterilization, homosexuality. While this may be a bold
agenda at D.C. dinner parties, to
traditional societies in Latin
America, Africa and the Islamic
world, it is the essence of decadent, godless Western materialism. The new face Bill Clinton's
America is presenting the world is
causing millions who once looked
to us with affection and admiration
to recoil in contempt and disgust.
No, friends, it is not the American Right that is "isolating'
America.
In the early years of the Cold
War, we had no more formidable an
ally than Pius XII. In the final
years of that struggle, Ronald Reagan had no more resourceful and
powerful a friend than John Paul
II. Whose fault is it that the pope
is against us in Cairo?
Nor is he alone. Here at home,
Catholic cardinals normally sympathetic to Democrats have turned
bitterly against the Clintons on
moral issues. Evangelical Christians who had kept aloof from politics are going down into the arena, drawn there by revulsion over the
causes embraced by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
In Cairo, says Mr. Hoagland, the
U.N., "strongly supported by the the
Clinton Administration, has produced a pro-feminist agenda devoted to 'empowering' women to
exercise control on family planning and reproductive rights." .
That's one way of putting it.
Reality: In 1983, the United Nations gave its first Family Planning Award jointly to Indira Gandhi, overthrown in 1977 for forced
sterilization of Indian men--and
to Beijing's "family planning minister."
This was four years after China
adopted its one-child policy that
has produced forced sterilizations,
abortions running to 10 million a
year, infanticide, a family planning gestapo agent in every village,
floggings for men whose wives refused to abort, and "missing" girls.
A free-lance writer in Hong
Kong wrote in the LA. Times in
1992: "The Government-run China
News Service reported last year
the drowning of baby girls had revived to such an extent in Guangxi
Province that at least 1 million
boys will be unable to find wives in
20 years. And partly because of
the gender imbalance, the feudalist practice of selling women has
been revived."
Is drowning baby girls "empowering" women?
Because Pope Paul II is willing
to use all the weapons of moral
suasion at his command to combat
such evil, he is savaged.
Once America stood for freedom, liberty and a Judeo-Christian
moral order. Next month in Cairo,
the U.S. delegation will offer the
world's poor lUDs, suction pumps,
condoms and Norplant.
Why should they listen? "While
birthrates among Western women
are declining to an average of 1.7
children born per woman", writes
staffer Paul Likoudis in the Wanderer, "Moslem women have an
average of six children each."
Why should the black, brown
and yellow peoples who look to inherit the Earth follow the example
of self-indulgent Westerners who
are committing racial suicide?
Promiscuity, contraception, 1.6
million abortions a year have given
us new epidemics of VD, AIDS,
soaring divorce rates, 80 percent
illegitimacy in our cities, family
collapse and falling birth rates--
all leading to levels of violence we
have never known before.
Why should any nation follow
such an example?
Mr. Hoagland quotes an Iranian
diplomat after his visit from a
Vatican envoy: "The future war is
between the religious and the materialists." What is astonishing is
not that the Holy Father is seeking
allies where he can in his fight for
life, it is that America, at Cairo
will be lined up beside regimes
whose "family planning" programs one formerly thought were
exclusive to the Third Reich.
