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The Pope already displeased with President Obama
By April MacIntyre Jan 24, 2009, 23:42 GMT
Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican has voiced their displeasure with President Obama\'s decision to lift the ban on funding abortions for international groups.EPA/DANILO SCHIAVELLA
The Vatican has voiced their displeasure with President Obama's decision to lift the ban on funding abortions for international groups.
Rome officials released statements expressing Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic church's disappointment with President Barack Obama's decision.
Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who heads the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life, urged Obama to listen to all voices in America without "the arrogance of those who, being in power, believe they can decide of life and death."
Fisichella told Italian news Corriere della Sera that "if this is one of President Obama's first acts, I have to say, in all due respect, that we're heading quickly toward disappointment."
Obama reversed the previous policy of the Bush administration.
"This deals a harsh blow not only to us Catholics but to all the people across the world who fight against the slaughter of innocents that is carried out with the abortion," another top official with the Academy for Life, Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, told the ANSA news agency.
"Among the many good things that he could have done, Barack Obama instead chose the worst," he was quoted as saying Saturday.
Another contentious issue for the Vatican is with Jewish groups who are deeply upset at Pope Benedict XVI's decision to re-establish a British bishop who claimed no Jews died in gas chambers during the second world war.
The Guardian reports that Pope Benedict welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church Richard Williamson and three other men who were excommunicated in 1988 after being ordained without Vatican permission by French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
According to the Guardian, Jewish groups "warned the Pope that the decision could damage Catholic-Jewish relations after Williamson claimed in an interview, broadcast last week, that historical evidence 'is hugely against six million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler ... I believe there were no gas chambers'."
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The time to exercise a woman's choice is before she gets pregnant. Once she has created a life, murder is not a choice.
Nothing could delight me more than knowing the Vatican is displeased with Obama over this issue. It shows he is on the right lines
...but, no matter what you think of the Pope, or Catholics, their Papel stance on life is unassailable: They are against abortion, capital punishment, Euthenasia, religous and supernational terrorism, and religous persecution against ANY religion, and stand for fundimental human rights. They have an utterly liberal position on human welfare. They have rasied billions in charitable contributions, giving hope to literally billions of people.
..go read Roe V. Wade and then ask yourself where the opinion says anything about abortion on demand. There is a court challenge coming...and it's gonna be a Deusie.
There is way too much blood dripping from the hand´s of the Roman catholic church to seriously put themselves in the position of playing the life saviour.
Major hypocrites.
Religion itself and all theological denominations have come a long way since the year ONE. Catholics used to dismember and burn heretics in public and punish those who refused to bend to the will of GOD.
That was a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago. These days people are civilized and rational and those long ago days of Torquemada are gone.
So please...stop using the Blood on the hands bit...it's a bit old.
The Catholics are against abortion , OK ? Something wrong w/that?
I myself believe in FREE WILL , I am pro choice...but I understand and.... empathize with the ' utopian ideals the Church wants to maintain ' But I know it's not realistic. The nation of Islam still has factions running loose killing bombing and beheading innocent people in the name of Allah to this day , right now , as I write this epistle. Here you are concerning yourself with the blood on the hands thing.
Hey I have news for you...things have changed BIG TIME...America elected a black man for President...Oh one more thing...it's 2009. Do you have a clue yet?
Give up your prehistoric notions and beliefs and learn to roll with the changes and go with the flow....in fact...I bet you voted for OBAMA. Who would be a hypocrite now....hmm?
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cutiepieJan 25th, 2009 - 00:58:14
Personally, I feel that the church does not have the right to tell someone not to have an abortion as it's a woman's right to do it or not, totally her feelings in this regard. I do not like the Catholic church being so powerful to run a person's life, God gives us a brain to use as we see best and at a time of pregnancy wanted or not it is a hard decision to make but again up the the woman, her doctor and man if she chooses to have his opinion also. It is a killing of another being and I do not agree to that but the church stays out of it, they have too much to say, that's why I do not like Catholism.
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