Anti-Catholicism on right wing radio

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Its not just the left media that is renewing anti-Catholic bias. Right-wing talk radio, which has muted its anti-Catholicsm in recent years, seems to have a renewed spate of it since the new Pope’s election.

Two separate local radio hosts hear in the past day have speculated on the Malachy prophecies and that the Pope could be the “anti-Chriat”. How the Pope was cozy with the UN and wants a one-world governemnt. Then Coast to Coast had a 2 hour special on it last night - though the anti-Catholic bias was muted it was definitely one of the sub-themes.

It didn’t help that some “traditional” Catholics called in saying the Church would apostocize and has started to already. .

Today on a show someoen mentioned the Church being against the war in Iraq and mentioned the suffering Catholics there and the host siad they are only Chriastan because of their family biut not really as they are not born again.

We could see a new rise of anti-Catholcism on the right too it seems.
 
Yup, batten down the hatches, it’s going to be a field day for the anti-Catholics and so it will go.

This Pope is going to make a lot of non-Catholics and possibly quite a few Catholics uncomfortable, which is all right by me. I think that while Pope Benedict is going to be personable, he is very forceful and direct. If it means we are going to have to go through more trial by fire, so be it. It will be a cleansing fire.
 
Why I listen to music instead of talk radio…

What a waste of time; almost as wasteful as TV…
 
A lot of Catholics gravitated to right wing radio because of the moral issues in the last election. They will find many, not most of course, talk show hosts are anti-Catholic. There is one in particular here in the Bay Area who usually tries to hide it but let slip the other day and got complaints. The next day he refused to answer those complaints. If you live here I think you know who I am talking about. He is the one who could give a fig about the suffering of Catholics in Iraq cause they aren’t really Christians - or born-again as he phrased it. He is also very anti-Palestinian. Any killing of a Palestinian he definds - even if it is kids.
 
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Randy2:
He is the one who could give a fig about the suffering of Catholics in Iraq cause they aren’t really Christians - or born-again as he phrased it. He is also very anti-Palestinian. Any killing of a Palestinian he definds - even if it is kids.
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It is amazing that he has any listeners with that take on the world. I think we are going to have to be ready to complain with the off button.
 
I’m not talking the liberal Bernie Ward here. This other Bay Area guy (on a right wing station) is more pernicious and quire subtle. He tries to hide it and slips in talk of “legalisitc”, priest who work of ecology in Brazil as being anti-private property. He held his tongue with the funeral but has slipped more than usual since.
 
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Randy2:
This other Bay Area guy
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Don’t tip-toe around his name. He may be syndicated and in my area. He’s a public broadcaster, he doesn’t deserve your confidentiality!
 
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Randy2:
Its not just the left media that is renewing anti-Catholic bias. Right-wing talk radio, which has muted its anti-Catholicsm in recent years, seems to have a renewed spate of it since the new Pope’s election.

Two separate local radio hosts hear in the past day have speculated on the Malachy prophecies and that the Pope could be the “anti-Chriat”. How the Pope was cozy with the UN and wants a one-world governemnt. Then Coast to Coast had a 2 hour special on it last night - though the anti-Catholic bias was muted it was definitely one of the sub-themes.

It didn’t help that some “traditional” Catholics called in saying the Church would apostocize and has started to already. .

Today on a show someoen mentioned the Church being against the war in Iraq and mentioned the suffering Catholics there and the host siad they are only Chriastan because of their family biut not really as they are not born again.

We could see a new rise of anti-Catholcism on the right too it seems.
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Who are you talking about? Rush? No. Laura Ingraham, she’s Catholic. Sean Hannity? He’s Catholic. There’s a lot of 2-bit talk radio hosts who are libertarians. They’re typically anti-religious as a whole, not just Catholicism…
 
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CatQuilt:
Who are you talking about? Rush? No. Laura Ingraham, she’s Catholic. Sean Hannity? He’s Catholic. There’s a lot of 2-bit talk radio hosts who are libertarians. They’re typically anti-religious as a whole, not just Catholicism…
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Here in Cincinnati we have Bill Cunningham. I think he has a nationally syndicated show in the evenings. He claims he is Catholic, but recently he commented that Pope Benedict is a “Nazi”. He has called our Archbishop a “homosexual and pediphile”. Last year his parish priest refused to give him communion (which I think it is about time) because of his comments about the Archbishop and the Catholic Church.
 
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CinciMom:
Here in Cincinnati we have Bill Cunningham. I think he has a nationally syndicated show in the evenings. He claims he is Catholic, but recently he commented that Pope Benedict is a “Nazi”. He has called our Archbishop a “homosexual and pediphile”. Last year his parish priest refused to give him communion (which I think it is about time) because of his comments about the Archbishop and the Catholic Church.
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Are you kidding? Wow. I used to live in Cinci and I know how anti-catholic things can get down there. The priest gave him a wake up call didn’t he? I wouldn’t pay attention to crack-pots like this.
 
The name of the anti-Catholic (and strongly anti-Palestinian) radio talk show host in the Bay Area is Brian Sussman of KSFO radio. A self-described born-again Christian, he basically defines Christianity as only real if one is “born again” - having recently called the Iranian Christians (Chaldean Eastern Rite Catholics) as not being really Chrisitan. Their complaints about US induced suffering caused to their community totally irrelevant. The guy gets away with a lot and few here seem to call him on it.
 
On a parallel level, as a Catholic, I find right wing talk radio as foul as left wing talk radio. I have about as much use for anti catholic christians as I do for anti christians.
 
Geez, I think the major right-wing talk show hosts have been stellar --Rush, Laura Ingraham, even Michael Savage. So who cares about the local yokels? I think JPII and the selection of Ratzinger garnered the Church respect we lost over the abuse scandals. At least the head of the Church is doing the right thing, even if the body goes its own way.

And yeah, these guys are public figures, no need to keep their names secret! Let us all know who the jerks are.
 
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Randy2:
The name of the anti-Catholic (and strongly anti-Palestinian) radio talk show host in the Bay Area is Brian Sussman of KSFO radio. A self-described born-again Christian, he basically defines Christianity as only real if one is “born again” - having recently called the Iranian Christians (Chaldean Eastern Rite Catholics) as not being really Chrisitan. Their complaints about US induced suffering caused to their community totally irrelevant. The guy gets away with a lot and few here seem to call him on it.
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How nice of him to judge the souls of people he doesn’t even know! Some people need to get over themselves!
 
For all of you concerned about the rising anti-Catholicism in America, I encourage those of you who are not already members to join the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. The president, Dr. Bill Donohue is a great warrior for the Catholic Faith. Membership only costs $30 a year and you will receive a monthly newsletter and an annual report on anti-Catholicism. You can also actively participate by bringing examples of anti-Catholic bigotry–the last acceptable prejudice–to the attention of the League. You can visit their website at **www.catholicleague.org **.
 
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Are you kidding? Wow. I used to live in Cinci and I know how anti-catholic things can get down there. The priest gave him a wake up call didn’t he? I wouldn’t pay attention to crack-pots like this.
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Yes “Willie” is sure a crack pot and is considering running for congress to take Rob Portman’s seat. Apparently Bill also found another parish who welcomed him in spite of his anti-Catholic comments. Sad 😦
 
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CatQuilt:
Who are you talking about? Rush? No. Laura Ingraham, she’s Catholic. Sean Hannity? He’s Catholic. There’s a lot of 2-bit talk radio hosts who are libertarians. They’re typically anti-religious as a whole, not just Catholicism…
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While Hannity once studied in seminary, I wouldn’t call him the best example of a Catholic on secular talk radio.

He’s got his own views that are far from being in communion with Mother Church.

Rush has been very friendly to the Church in the last few weeks. O’Reilly calls himself a Catholic, but he’s a lot like Hannity in that he bashes the Church on certain issues; even goes so far as to assign blame to the Church for aids in Africa because of teachings on contraception.

All of this is why I listen to Al Kresta on Ave Maria Radio.
 
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CinciMom:
Here in Cincinnati we have Bill Cunningham. I think he has a nationally syndicated show in the evenings. He claims he is Catholic, but recently he commented that Pope Benedict is a “Nazi”. He has called our Archbishop a “homosexual and pediphile”. Last year his parish priest refused to give him communion (which I think it is about time) because of his comments about the Archbishop and the Catholic Church.
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This is the post in you referred to Bill calling Pope Ratzi a Nazi.
 
I was listening to Michael Savage the night before John Paul II passed away. I hadn’t come back to the Church yet, but Savage literally brought me to tears with all of the kind things he said about the late Holy Father. He talked about how symbolic it was to see a man of God fighting so hard for the life of Terri Schiavo, while also fighting for his own life. He talked about how John Paul II would put life over politics and would never give in to the changing morals of the world. He said how awed he was by the fact that a man could love and respect life so much that he would dedicated every day of his own life to fighting for those that no one else will fight for. It was actually Michael Savage (a Jew, by the way) who sent me on the path back to the Catholic Church. I know there’s a lot of people out there who hate the man and sometimes he can be very harsh, but I believe he does a lot more good than bad.
 
Yes, I’m very concerned about a local (Worcester, Mass.)talk show host who is a “born-again” Christian but very hard-core anti-catholic. His name is Tom Crouse and he hosts a show entitled “Engaging your world”. A discussion about this is in the following thread:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=69920
 
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