Fatima Perspectives, Christopher Ferrara: Every year since it was first held in 1945, the Archdiocese of New York has sponsored and organized the “Al Smith Memorial Benefit Dinner,” named after America’s first Catholic presidential candidate. Hosted by the Archbishop of New York, the original purpose of the dinner was to raise funds for needy children of the Archdiocese. Over the ensuing decades, however, this charity event has morphed into an American grotesquerie of diabolical proportions at which Presidential candidates are honored before the whole world regardless of their opposition to the Church’s most fundamental teachings on faith and morals. More here.
