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The Catholic blogosphere and Catholic Twitter are abuzz with the clicking and tapping of comments on Father James Martin, S.J.,’s August 20 benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.

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Some have complained that Father Martin’s inclusion on the last night of the DNC is a hypocritical and inconsistent contrast to the treatment of Priests for Life National Director Father Frank Pavone, who was asked by unnamed Church authorities to withdraw himself from an advisory position on President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. While Father Martin’s benediction is not an explicit endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden, it at least suggests Father Martin’s benediction of the progressive Catholic politician seeking the Democratic nomination.

Choosing Father Martin to offer a benediction at the DNC convention was, however, an act of genius on behalf of both the Democratic National Committee as well as the wider progressive Catholic establishment in America of which Father Martin is one of if not the most prominent members.

While constantly derided and challenged by right-of-center Catholics as a progressive or dissident Catholic potentially leading millions of Catholics into scandal and spiritual ruin, Father Martin is, in fact, much like former President Bill Clinton (who also has appeared at the DNC convention). He’s a tactful and skilled politician who knows just what to say and when. One might even call Father Martin—again, like former President Bill Clinton—a rhetorical genius.

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While President Clinton represents, at least apparently, a more moderate and level-headed Democratic Party of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Father Martin is representative of a new breed of liberal Catholics who are much smarter than their predecessors.

The earlier generation of liberal Catholics in America and throughout the wider West attempted to do too much too fast and positioned themselves as intellectual adversaries of the Church’s traditional teaching. European theologians like Fathers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hans Kung, and Edward Schillebeeckx were intellectuals whose works came under examination by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Holy Office, and which at least appeared to challenge key Catholic doctrinal issues. By doing so they, and American writers like Fathers Charles Curran and Matthew Fox, put themselves at odds vis-à-vis the Church.

During the heady days of the 1960s and 1970s, such rebelliousness was attractive to young, liberal Baby Boomers mesmerized by the belief that they were living in the emergent Age of Aquarius.

However, following the conservative Catholic American renaissance inaugurated by Pope John Paul II’s 1993 World Youth Day, direct opposition to the Church has fallen out of fashion and, for the most part, earlier generations of Gen-Xers and Millennials have simply left the Church, as opposed to practicing the left-wing version of “recognize and resist.”

Although there has been a tremendous renaissance of traditional Catholicism among young Catholics, there are many Catholics who find themselves caught between two worlds. These younger Catholics, the children or the grandchildren of Baby Boomers, have (along with their “post-Evangelical” counterparts) combined progressive politics with elements of Catholic piety and have earned the tweetable moniker of “Left Caths.”

Unlike the earlier generation of post–Vatican II radicals, the Left Caths focus on the presentation of their ideas rather than intellectual content. They claim (perhaps sincerely) not to be combating the Church’s teaching, but rather to be presenting it in a more compassionate and inclusive manner.

The Left Cath method of form over function has been deeply attractive to many American Catholics who find themselves caught up in the recent resurgence of progressive politics that itself is more about branding than content.

America, despite our sincere and strong tradition of the belles lettres, has never been about the intellectual life. It has been much more about business—and show business, in particular—than it has been about heady theological and philosophical issues.

Father James Martin is a member of the off-Broadway production company Labyrinth Theatre, making him the perfect face of the Left Caths to present at the 2020 convention. He can make it seem as though one can still be a pious, pro-life Catholic and vote for a political party that is fundamentally at odds with traditional Catholic teaching on life issues, gender ideology, marriage, the liberty of the Church, and a whole laundry list of political and moral errors.

In the end, it is difficult to gauge what Father Martin really believes. Tempting as it may be to do otherwise, charity demands that we give him the benefit of the doubt.

Nonetheless, Father Martin and the other Left Caths, by creating the impression that faithful Catholics can support politicians many of whose policies radically diverge from Church teaching, have proven themselves to be a tremendous boon for the Democratic Party and the radical left writ large. If we want to win at politics, conservative and traditionalist Catholics must follow the method of the Left Caths and get a lot smarter.

Editor’s note: The title of this article has been amended.

[Photo credit: James Martin, SJ/Twitter.com]

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By Fr. Paul John Kalchik

This past weekend, a friend forwarded me Fr. Martin's recent diatribe in which he went off on LifeSiteNews and Church Militant.

Father Martin makes a lot of hay from 'demonizing' absolutely everyone who disagrees with his cause of making the world 'gay-friendly!' God forbid anyone challenges Fr. Martin in the promotion of his cause célèbre. Eight months ago, I was one of these 'demons' Fr. Martin took on, and he did so without making any contact with me whatsoever and without even checking out any of the actions for which he hung me out to dry.

By the by, Fr. Martin, the banner over which prayers of deliverance were said and which was destroyed was not a generic Walmart gay flag. The banner that was burned by Resurrection parishioners was one of the last bits of Fr. Montalbano's gay paraphernalia which he used as a piece of not-so-subtle propaganda to proclaim his lifestyle rather than to proclaim the Gospel and the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Dear friends at @Church_Militant@LifeSite and Tradition Family and Property, who write articles, start online petitions and organize protests whenever I speak. Let me save you some time and effort. Because, lately, here's what usually happens when you do this. (Thread.)

There was a lot of paraphernalia, and it cost a lot of money. To quote one of the parishioners who participated in the destruction of this last bit of Fr. Montalbano's paraphernalia this past Sept. 14, the solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 'Fr. Montalbano may not have raped young boys, but he certainly raped this parish financially.'

Resurrection parish has a beautiful bell tower, but it is sadly empty. Thanks to Fr. Montalbano, it no longer has the 32 bell carillon for which it was built. The parish's Deagan chimes now are housed in a tower on the Sanfilippo (Fisher Nut Company) Estate in the suburbs, and who knows what Fr. Montalbano did with the money from their sale?

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But, back to the topic at hand, Fr. Martin, which is your diatribe of this past Sunday against the few remaining independent Catholic news sources. You make repeated references in this diatribe about how a person's sexual orientation is somehow a major part of what constitutes and makes up a human being. I beg to differ!

A person's sexual orientation is not a major part of who a man or a woman is, made in the image and likeness Almighty God. In fact, being male and female is just the result of how the parent's genes combine to make a new human being with his or her distinct DNA, and I have yet to read about a gene that determines one's sexual orientation.

A lot of people tell me I have eyes of an unusually beautiful blue color. My eyes and their rare blue color are no importance to who I am as a man, made in God's image and likeness.

13) But except for that one angry person, they are people who are grateful that someone is talking about LGBT Catholics in a positive way, or they are parents of LGBT children who have felt excluded from their church, or they are LGBT Catholics themselves who hug me and thank me.

What is of importance to me as a man, made in His image, is how rational I am and how I welcome God the Holy Spirit to guide my mind. Father Martin, in a profoundly disturbing and demonic way you use an 'off' human anthropology to promote sin — nowhere in Sacred Scripture, and nowhere in the writings of the Church Fathers, do you find any justification for your skewed human anthropology that raises a person's sexual orientation to a cause célèbre.

How do I know what I write is true and what you promote is just dead wrong? It is from my experience as the victim of 'homosexual' sexual abuse, not once, but twice in my young life — once as a child and then as a young seminarian!

Let me explain. Often, one of the casualties of being sexually abused is that the abuse makes the abused turned off to all sex, and of all things sexual. For myself, after I was raped by Fr. Cozzi, I went a six-year period without even having a sexual thought whatsoever! No thoughts of intimacy, no thoughts of even touching another person. In fact, to this day, I remain tactilely defensive; when someone attempts to hug me, I offer a fist bump.

Not wanting to bring back the absolute horror of being attacked, I now orient myself to no sex. It is my experiences that have shaped me; it is not how I was born. Long story short, after therapy and time, 36 years now has elapsed.

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I am able to function, but I am a changed man for good or for bad. But, sex, and having it, or orientation for that matter, is not really anything in my life. And I find your promotion of everything gay and your 'sexualization' of what constitutes a human person made in God's image and likeness absolutely repulsive.

But, back to the point of this message, eight months late on my part. Your hyped promotion of everything gay is, simply put, demonic. The 'sexualization' of the human person is nothing more than a new 'enlightened' version of idolatry.

Just like Arron and crew at the foot of Mount Sinai, fallen human beings are easily misled into one form of idolatry or another! And what you have in the hyped celebration of a person's orientation is simply a new form of idolatry.

So today I make a challenge to you, Fr. Martin, along the lines of Elijah on Mount Carmel. How is it that your new anthropology is better than that given to us by the Fathers of the Church? Why should we brush aside absolutely all of Sacred Scripture to make room for this 'new' understanding of how a person is made?

I for one do not believe what you are saying, which boils down to rewriting Genesis to say, 'God made them, male and female he made them, some heterosexual and some homosexual he made them, in the divine image he made them.'

I found your personal attack on me unsettling, but your attempt at supplanting the true faith with a funhouse mirror version of it makes me sick. And by the by, before you 'demonize' me, or LifeSiteNews or Church Militant, check out your facts. Come judgment day, there will no longer be a leftist press corps to sing your praises.

Father Paul John, in hiding from the homosexuals who hate me.

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