{"id":1614,"date":"2016-08-24T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2016-08-24T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:09:23","slug":"leaked-e-mails-show-george-soros-paid-650k-to-influence-bishops-during-popes-us-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Leaked E-Mails Show George Soros Paid $650K to Influence Bishops During Pope\u2019s US Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 Leaked emails through <i>WikiLeaks<\/i> reveal that billionaire globalist George Soros &#8211; one of Hilary Clinton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/07\/27\/george-soros-returns-to-politics-with-25-million-splash-report.html\">top donors<\/a> &#8211; paid $650,000 to influence Pope Francis\u2019 September 2015 visit to the USA with a view to &#8220;shift[ing] national paradigms and priorities in the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign.&#8221; The funds were allocated in April 2015 and <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lifesite\/opportunities-fund-memo.pdf\">the report<\/a> on their effectiveness suggests that successful achievements included, \u201cBuy-in of individual bishops to more publicly voice support of economic and racial justice messages in order to begin to create a critical mass of bishops who are aligned with the Pope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The monies were granted to two US entities that have been engaged in a long-term project, according to the report, of shifting \u201cthe priorities of the US Catholic church.\u201d Grantees were PICO, a faith-based community organizing group, and <i>Faith in Public Life<\/i> (FPL), a progressive group working in media to promote left-leaning \u2018social justice\u2019 causes. Soros has funded left-wing causes the world over and was just found to have been funding an effort to eliminate pro-life laws around the globe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lifesite\/opportunities-fund-memo.pdf\">Board Minutes<\/a> from the May 2015 meeting of Soros\u2019 <i>Open Society Foundation<\/i> in New York reveal that in the planning stages of the papal visit initiative, the group planned to work through one of the Pope\u2019s key advisors, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, naming him specifically in the report. In order to seize on the opportunity provided by the Pope\u2019s visit to the US, says the report, \u201cwe will support PICO\u2019s organizing activities to engage the Pope on economic and racial justice issues, including using the influence of Cardinal Rodriguez, the Pope\u2019s senior advisor, and sending a delegation to visit the Vatican in the spring or summer to allow him to hear directly from low-income Catholics&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-religion\/3462658\/posts\">http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-religion\/3462658\/posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 Leaked emails through WikiLeaks reveal that billionaire globalist George Soros &#8211; one of Hilary Clinton&#8217;s top donors &#8211; paid $650,000 to influence Pope Francis\u2019 September 2015 visit to the USA with a view to &#8220;shift[ing] national paradigms and priorities in the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign.&#8221; The funds were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaked E-Mails Show George Soros Paid $650K to Influence Bishops During Pope\u2019s US Visit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}