Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right with Mary Jo McConahay

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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For anyone interested in understanding why religious extremism has such a large influence in America, this fascinating interview focuses on an elite group of Catholic Bishops who oppose the current Pope and his policies of wishing to move the Church away from its abusive authoritarian past. Want to understand more about our current Supreme Court and why they demonstrated that they lied during their confirmation hearings when they said that Roe v. Wade was established law after fifty years. As soon as they had the majority, they showed their true allegiance, and it wasn't to the law and the majority of the American people. Mary Jo McConahay is a Catholic journalist who takes the position of supporting the changes in Vatican 2, which included allowing the mass to be given in languages other than Latin. Vatican 2 stated categorically that Jews were not Christ-killers but affirmed God is Almighty and that His promise to Abraham was eternal. We discuss the Manhattan Declaration which was signed by Catholics and Protestants to work together to undermine gay rights, and women’s right to choose and to promote the freedom to religious impose their version of religion on all others. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:09.9	I have a very special guest today, a journalist, Mary Jo McConaughey, who's one of the most
0:16.6	prominent Catholic journalists in America.
0:20.1	In the 80s, she's written several books about,
0:25.0	and I should say, you were a legendary war correspondent
0:28.7	covering the Central American insurgencies.
0:32.0	You've written the Tango War,
0:33.5	the struggle for the hearts, minds, and riches
0:35.8	of Latin America during World War II,
0:38.8	and also Maya Rhodes, one woman's journey among the people of the rainforest, which you
0:46.0	won multiple book awards for, so congratulations. But I'm very interested in your most recent book,
0:54.0	playing God, American Catholic bishops, and the but I'm very interested in your most recent book,
0:59.2	playing God, American Catholic bishops, and the far right.
1:07.1	And all I can say is there's a lot of very valuable, important information,
1:10.0	I believe the public needs to understand,
1:14.5	including in this current moment of ethics of the Supreme Court justices, a majority of which are Catholics. And I think a lot of my listeners
1:21.6	don't understand the nature of the schism that seems to have cropped up with the far right and our current
1:29.8	hope, who is a moderate force trying to reform things.
1:36.4	So with that introduction, Mary Jo, how did you decide to do this book, Playing God,
1:43.9	American Catholic Bishops and the far right, please?
1:48.0	Well, thank you, Steve, for featuring the book and for having me on for this conversation.
1:55.8	How did I come to write it, January 6th?
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