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National Catholic Reporter American Catholic leaders protest Novak visit to VaticanA letter signed by more than 60 American Catholics, including prominent laity and men and women religious, protests the decision of the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican to bring Michael Novak, a conservative Catholic intellectual, to Rome to argue for the morality of a “preventive war” in Iraq.
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PERSON PROFILEMichael NovakMichael Novak is an Olin Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, taking home some $88,000 per year (1998). He writes about religion and the voluntary sector. May 1, 1999 The Economic Religion of Michael Novak |
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Damon Linker How Jesus Endorsed Bush's Invasion of IraqIn the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush needed the approval of religious leaders to shore up his religious base and a group of Catholic theoconservatives were happy to help him do just that For much of the past 25 years, a small group of Catholic intellectuals has worked to inject its radical religious ideas into the nation's politics. The leader of this theoconservative movement is Father Richard John Neuhaus. In the pages of his monthly magazine First Things, Neuhaus and his ideological allies set the theocon agenda on a range of policies. Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the American founders were orthodox religious believers who thought of the United States as a Christian nation -- and that American-style capitalism perfectly conforms to Catholic social teaching. Robert P. George of Princeton University insists that abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage (and perhaps even contraception and masturbation) should be outlawed. And George Weigel of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center uses Catholic just-war reasoning to justify neoconservative foreign policy. As the U.S. began to prepare for war in Iraq in 2002, the theocons set out to provide theological justification for the coming conflagration.
Enduring Friedman AEI pawn plays a Bishop on PBS[bad link - blog seems to have gone away] From this bland [Newshour] description you wouldn’t guess that [Michael] Novak is so deeply embedded with the neocon wing of the Bush administration that he was dispatched along with Andrew Sullivan and William Bennett to sell the war with Iraq to the Pope. The NewsHour's over reliance on the American Enterprise Institute to provide subsidized talking heads posing as independent experts is dishonest and lazy...it qualifies as a form of corruption. I’d call it influence laundering.
Novak is also on the payroll of the Pfizer corporation - writing propaganda for them.
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