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Memo From: Joshua Kutjok, SJ [Pope@vatican.va] To: Msgr. Xavier O'Brien, SJ RE: The Media. Are these people illiterate or just stupid? Ready the press releases.
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However, many opponents of Pius XIII's stated policies claim that the election was unfair, that the announcement was made not in the news media, but in the churches themselves. One priest, who wishes anonymity, replies to those charges, saying that Since the enemies of Pius XIII havent gone to church since 1965, they never knew the elections happened; tough luck. If you don't show up, you don't count. The 45% of Catholics who regularly go to church were the ones who voted. By the time the critics had appreciated the significance of the elections, they were over, leaving them without an argumentthey had gotten their elections, but they had failed to show up, and so failed to get the outcome they wanted. And now they can't complain because Pius has given them what they had been demanding for decades. This, some have claimed, have made the Bishops far more political, and more right-wing than ever. The move to canonize Dr. Thomas A. Dooley also gave the more radical Left something to chew on, and provoke heartburn. He had been an anti-Communist spy, a CIA fellow-traveler in Vietnam in the 1950s, but he was also rumored to have been actively homosexual...on the other hand, he seemed to be celibate for most, if not all, his life. In a move seemingly designed to scare New York City, the Bishop of Brooklyn and the Archbishop of New York had all their Catholic school principals have their students register for Public Schools. They discussed the idea that Catholic citizenry should not be double taxed for educationpaying for Catholic school, as well as paying taxes for public schools they wouldnt send their child near. The Private School Voucher Relief Bill was passed in thirty days through the NY legislature. Repeated nationwide to similar effect, vouchers made Lutheran, Torah, and Home Schools solid supporters of the Papacy overnight. All of that had been dumped on the press one Monday morning, and the press had been reeling from the information overload ever since.