John Hagee, the controversial evangelical pastor who endorsed John McCain, will issue a letter of apology to Catholics today for inflammatory remarks he has made, including accusing the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolf Hitler and calling it “The Great Whore.†(See a copy of the letter PDF.)
“Out of a desire to advance greater unity among Catholics and Evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful,†Hagee wrote, according to an advanced copy of the letter reviewed by Washington Wire. “After engaging in constructive dialogue with Catholic friends and leaders, I now have an improved understanding of the Catholic Church, its relation to the Jewish faith, and the history of anti-Catholicism.â€Â
In the letter, addressed to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League and one of Hagee’s biggest critics, Hagee pledges “a greater level of compassion and respect for my Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.â€Â
If I cared more about what Hagee said, I guess I’d be more excited about this, but I guess it’s gratifying to see someone getting a clue. Even griefer Donohue comes off rather well here:
Mr. Donohue said in an interview on Tuesday that he was surprised by Mr. Hagee’s letter of regret: “Well, miracles do happen. If I wasn’t a believer before, I sure am now.â€Â
Mr. Hagee has recently held meetings with other Catholic leaders. But his chief opponent, Mr. Donohue, said that he had refused to meet with Mr. Hagee until Mr. Hagee issued an apology. The two men are now scheduled to meet on Thursday.
“Republican activists have been working with him over the last several weeks, giving him books and articles and getting him up to speed and away from the black legends about the Catholic church,†Mr. Donohue said.
“I have to assume he’s acting sincerely, and now understands†that he’s been accepting a lot of conspiracy theories, Mr. Donohue said.
Which may come as something of a disappointment to the NYT.
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I can’t get this “Gelasius George” joke to work.
I’ve never cared for the “I’m sorry I said things that offended you” non-apology, but I’m not the audience for this one.
Well, Christianity has commonality in that both evangelicals and Catholics are instructed to forgive and forget. Judge not et al.
We’ll see…the crux of the biscuit? Got hypostrophe?
That sound you heard was nishi’s peanut head exploding.
Who would Wright apologize to?
Wright should apologize to all of us.
Do quantum particles make a sound?
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/13 @ 6:42 pm #
Who would Wright apologize to?
I would like to personally apologize to everyone here. I’m so sorry.
Do quantum particles make a sound?
Or does the sound get them instead?
OK he wasn’t far off with the “RC supports Hitler” line, the German church was hardly opposed to him, and certain leaders of the church were friendly, to say the least. But it’s good to see Mr Hagee recognize that it’s all the Christian church and it serves no good to attack others that way. Even if by some chance the Roman Catholic church deserved such rhetoric, it’s not very Christlike to put it that way in any case.
Well it was sort of an untenably contradictory position from the get-go to be calling the Catholic church “The Great Whore” while endorsing McCain I think.
The recent rapprochement between evangelicals and Catholics is very good news for the Church, and this is just one more step. Excellent.
Damn his eyes for deflating one of my few arguments against McCain (and it was a flimsy and suppostitious argument indeed – but it was something. Now I can only hope that he loses his temper and punches someone in the face or something interesting. Maybe he will go on the View and slap-a-bunch-a-hos. That might make his numbers go up though. Shit.
Now I can only hope that he loses his temper and punches someone in the face or something interesting.
Yeah, like Woody Hayes.
Of course, the problem lay in the fact, that he based his premise on John Cornwell; Le Carre’s distaff Catholic brother, who misrepresented
a good deal of both Pius’s background
and James Carroll (it’s kind of surprising that this moonbat was the
son of the Army General founder of the DIA; and a career FBI agent)who
declared the Iraq war a ‘crusade’ and not in a good way, and of course a firm
believer we had lost said war. Of course, slimy Commie-anarchist weasel
Matt Taibi, hasn’t hesitated in opening up another meme; in his
‘undercover account’ of his time at Hagee’s CornerStone Church.
Andy will be beside himself tomorrow. He likes it when the Evangelicals and Catholics are at one another’s throats. He gets more gay marriages that way.
“including accusing the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolf Hitler” – somebody remind me, was it catholic church that helped nazis to escape to south america after WWII?
no? yes? so why the apology?
Hagee?
What a pussy! If you don’t mean it, don’t say it.
This shot is at Hagee for being a jerk, and not at the Catholic church.
Each to his own…
If only he would call UCC “The Great Ass Bandit”…
NO. The Catholic Church did not help Nazis escape to South America. Now, get out and read something besides hatre literature. Facts help.
Do quantum particles make a sound?
geez do we really have to go thru this again?
quantum mechanics is the study of the relationship between quanta and elementary particles.
there are no “quantum particles”.
there are elementary particles, superparticles, and exotic particles.
so far.
Quantum particles don’t exist, Nishi? I always suspected that of your brain, but thanks for the admission. ;-)
what is “hatre literature”, thegeezer? israeli newspapers?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=670245
Considering my original reaction was “Cranky Evangelical forgets the Thirty Years War is over. Huh. What’s for dinner?” This is actually kind of nice to see. Normally when you slice n’ dice another’s faith, you’re not going to be moved by arguments to check your premises. Good for him.
“Maybe he will go on the View and slap-a-bunch-a-hos. That might make his numbers go up though. Shit.”
Oh, you’d better believe it. Shit, I’d vote for Obama if he’d just slap…uh…wow, I don’t ever watch…is Bawa Wawa still on the show? Rosie? Star? Fill a brother in here.
Cranky Evangelical forgets the Thirty Years War is over That is exquisitely funny.