Gloria.TV News on the 8th of February 2013
United States
George Marlin from the “The Catholic Thing” has commented on David Nasaw’s new book, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. Nasaw shows how the Kennedy family’s founding father treated the Church like one of his subsidiary companies to enhance his public image and political power. To grease the way for his son’s political career, J.P.K. gave millions to Catholic causes and institutions. Publicly, the Kennedys patronized the Church, but privately they helped create a shadow church with their own version of Catholicism. The Catholic pro-abortion movement, for instance, was hatched at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. In summer 1964, Robert and Edward Kennedy met at the Cape with some leading dissident priests – Robert Drinan, Richard McCormick, Joseph Fuchs, and Charles Curran – to figure out how Catholic politicians could pander to the growing abortion movement without upsetting their …More