Rush Limbaugh: Drive-Bys Shocked to Learn Pope Francis is Catholic

Any Catholic who has been listening to the secular media's inane commentary  about the Conclave this past week and who heard Rush Limbaugh  discussing it today, must have broken out into a "Te Deum" and mid-Lent "Alleluia's."  Limbaugh, a non-Catholic, said clearly and persuasively what every faithful Catholic has been thinking.  He, unlike 99% of the media, understands that the Church cannot be explained with a left-right political paradigm.  He understands that the role of the Church is to be counter-cultural, to be, like the cross, a sign of contradiction, immutable in its proclamation of Truth.  It is a church which will never conform itself to the world, but rather seeks to convert the world to Christ.

As Limbaugh explains so well, the media, lacking faith, cannot understand that Pope after Pope continues to be, well, CATHOLIC!  After all, hasn't conforming a church to the feminist movement, the LGBT movement, the pro-abortion movement, to pantheistic environmentalism, to every passing fad, worked so well for The Episcopal Church?

Catholics and those fed-up with a godless media will find the following transcript from today's Rush Limbaugh Show to be a wonderful, refreshing dose of truth.

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RUSH: New pope. I am not Catholic. But I have endeavored, I have dug deep, I have attempted to find out from sources that I trust as much as I can, that I can understand, that I could then relay to you about this new pope. He's the first pope from the Americas. I realize some of you from Rio Linda say, "Wait a minute. Argentina? That's South America." He's the first one. And he didn't want to be pope. But there's some incredible things about this man. He is a classic Catholic theologian. There appears not to be one shred of moral relevance. In fact, I'll play the sound bites for you in just a minute.

The media, select members, they're out there. I watched some of it this morning, and it's kind of funny to watch. They're wringing their hands, "How can the church attract young people when it is opposed to contraception? Doesn't the church need to modernize? Doesn't the pope, don't these cardinals realize what they've gotta do if they want to attract young people to the church? If they want to spread their message they can't have this position that's anti-gay marriage and anti-contraception." And they treat the church as a political institution.

And of course there's politics clearly in the Curia throughout the Vatican, but in terms of church teaching, it's not a political institution. It's religious. I heard people, in fact, media people, "Is this new pope, is he a liberal? Is he a conservative?" He's a Catholic! It's no more complicated than that. Catholicism is what it is. You don't have to believe it. You don't have to follow it. But it's not up to them to modernize to you. It's not up to any religion, although some do this, 'cause they want the money. They want the membership. But the Catholic Church doesn't do it. It's not up to them to bend and shape and mold itself to accommodate the shrinking depravity of a worldwide culture. It's to provide the exact opposite. It's to provide a beacon out of depravity, among other things.

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Father Barron is one of the greatest evangelizers of our time.  He is also beginning to fill the huge void left by the passing of Father Richard Neuhaus in promoting an evangelical Catholicism and presenting the Church to an increasingly secular world.  We will post his thoughtful analyses as the Conclave progresses.

Could an American be the Next Pope?

Perhaps the archbishop of New York. Or that of Boston. In the footsteps of Benedict XVI, moreover with the lash against mismanagement in hand. But the curia is resisting and counterattacking, bringing forward a Brazilian cardinal in its trust

By Sandro Magister

Timothy Cardinal Dolan

ROME, March 7, 2013 – The easiest bet is that the next pope will not be Italian. But not European, African, or Asian ether. For the first time in the bimillennial history of the Church, the successor of Peter could come from the Americas. Or to hazard a more targeted prediction: from the Big Apple.

Timothy Michael Dolan, archbishop of New York, 63, is a larger-than-life man from the Midwest with a radiant smile and overflowing vigor, precisely that “vigor of both body and mind” which Joseph Ratzinger recognized he had lost and defined as necessary for his successor, for the sake of properly “governing the barque of Peter and proclaiming the Gospel.”

In Benedict XVI's act of resignation there was found already the title of the program of the future pope. And many cardinals were quickly reminded of the visionary vivacity with which Dolan developed precisely this theme, with his “primordial” Italian, his words, but scintillating, at the consistory one year ago, when he himself, the archbishop of New York, was preparing to receive the scarlet:

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