Last week Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash wrote about the Conservative party's allies in the European Parliament.
He referred to a Polish politician. His thesis was that the he believed the man stood for little. At present he was aligned with conservative policy. He also pointed out that he has also been associated with hard right wing groups and been close to being anti Semitic in his views.
It was an interesting article and TGA did admit that the only sure thing that he could say about the Polish politician was that he was good at pushing his own image and liked fine wines.
Reading the article it did occur to this reader that he could very well have been writing about many Catholic priests who espouse right wing views.
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John O’Rourke was born in Newry on November 14, 1939. He joined the Dominican Order in September 1958 and was ordained a priest in July 1965...
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Or Catholic priests who espouse left wing views...telling the rest of us to pay higher taxes, and stop global warming while they live safe, recession-proof middle class existences, and guzzle as much gas flying around the world to "conferences" and "retreats"...give me a break.
The left is as bad as the right.
That is a real and interesting question. Is the 'left' as bad as the 'right'.
Do 'left wing' people do anonymity?
I'm inlcined to think they don't. Maybe I am wrong.
Your point re recession-proof lives is accurate I imagine. But is it not true to say that the 'right wingers' in the priestly class are the big spenders and have no idea what it means to do a day's serious work, being on the job for five days a week?
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