A Foundation for Evil

I spent 20 years looking for a government that I could overthrow without being thrown in jail. I finally found one in the Catholic Church.

It would be difficult to find a statement that better encapsulates blithe evil than that one. Folded in with the ideal of destruction for destruction's sake is utter cowardice. That a woman would rattle off this rehearsed repartee in an interview for publication illustrates volumes about the disturbing world she believes herself to inhabit. (It may be that such women once served as evidence for Freud's phallic philosophy.)

The speaker is Frances Kissling, head of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), the funding of which Joseph D'Hippolito traces back, in large part, to the Ford Foundation. According to Joseph, it's a voice created specifically to deliver a message:

CFFC, therefore, provides a useful counterweight to the Vatican's position in public debate. Joseph O'Rourke, a former Jesuit and president of CFFC, told the conservative National Catholic Register in 1984, "CFFC really was just kept alive for years because the mainline pro-choice movement wanted a Catholic vote."

"Catholic," in this usage, is a term entirely of self-definition — a usage akin to the Devil himself claiming to be a Christian. (Who is more likely to believe in Christ's divinity?) This inversion of terms, this purposeful nihilism, is a form of rhetoric mastered by Kissling and her ilk. Here's a question that she asked Kate Michelman, of NARAL, in an interview:

Isn't part of our problem as a movement that people don't know the complexity of decisions that a prochoice person goes through in relation to the question of life? Don't you want sometimes to scream from the rooftops, "I am a pro-life person"?

Scream it as loudly as you like, Ms. Kissling; only fools will be fooled.