Posted on 05/19/2009 6:36:40 PM PDT by Hilda
Vatican newspaper says Obama sought 'common ground' at Notre Dame
By John Thavis Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican newspaper said U.S. President Barack Obama sought common ground on the divisive issue of abortion in his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.
The newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said the president also confirmed that pushing for a more liberal abortion law would not be a priority of his administration. The comments came in a L'Osservatore report May 18, the day after Obama spoke at the university in Indiana.
"The search for a common ground: This seems to be the path chosen by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, in facing the delicate question of abortion," the newspaper said.
It said Obama had set aside the "strident tone" of the 2008 political campaign on the abortion issue.
"Yesterday Obama confirmed what he expressed at his 100-day press conference at the White House, when he said that enacting a new law on abortion was not a priority of his administration," it said.
The newspaper, which was reporting on the Notre Dame commencement for the first time, acknowledged the controversy caused by the president's appearance at what it called "the most prestigious Catholic university in the United States."
"Yesterday, too, as could have been predicted, there were protests. But from the podium set up in the basketball arena, the president invited Americans of every faith and ideological conviction to 'work in common effort' to reduce the number of abortions," it said.
The newspaper noted that Obama had called for reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies, facilitating adoption and supporting women who want to carry their babies to term, and that he had also spoken of drafting a "conscience clause" for medical personnel who are morally opposed to participating in abortions.
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If Hitler sought common ground on the Jewish issue...”I mean, we all want to see less Jews killed right? I’m sure we can respect each other and debate Jew killing in a civil manner.”
puke
Third misleading post of this nonsense in 24 hours.
I tend not to trust things with apostrophes in the first two syllables.
The Catholic hierarchy and much of the flock has just caved. Dead babies just don’t get the attention of this religion like it used to. Obama gets a medal the unborn get ignored.
Common ground? That’s a bunch of BS. How can there be “common ground” with murder?
Shaking head.
Are you one of those suckers who believes everything they read in a newspaper?
The idea always is to "find the areas we agree on and concentrate on those" as if pro-lifers would be willing to concede the abortion battle if they could be "led" to engage around other issues instead. Sadly, some have.
It is possible the Vatican is sufficiently ill-advised by screwed up American prelates that they do not know they are endorsing a fraudulent gambit.
It’s a newspaper, not Pope Benedict XVI.
Besides, according to Obama’s ACTUAL stated words, the article is accurate.
Don’t over react. Pope Benedict is a classic pope in that he will try to accomplish things quietly. Only liberals assume he will do fireworks kind of stuff in the glaring light of public scrutiny. Nope. He will work quietly.
As far as I can see, this is not in response to the Notre Dame appearance.
Also, I think the effort, misguided as it is, is to encourage Obama to go softly and not push more abortion laws.
Finally, Osservatore Romano regretably does not always speak for the Pope, or even for the Church.
I agree that they couldn’t have picked a worse time to come out with this.
What a joke. Common ground on killing babies. Common ground on letting more illegals flood in for the liberal American Catholic Church’s pals in La Raza and ACORN?
Benedict is a major disappointment and Notre Dame is a disgrace. If you think i hate the Church - I do not not. I defended the church when it was too lazy and inept to remove homosexual pedophle infiltrators who almost destroyed the church and they was their intent.
Archbishop Burke Slams Obama's Appearance at Notre Dame
Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to Catholic University Educators, April 17, 2008
More importantly, there are a bunch of articles out about this. But I looked and have not seen the actual L'Osservatore Romano article for myself.
Curious, that.
to quote Rush’s phrase, all he did was practice the “low art of political seduction”.
And he’s very good at it.
Benedict could have resolved the quietly and told Notre Dame where this was headed. The people at Notre Dame should be “re-employed” asking people if they want fries with their Happy Meal.
The Baptists who run ChickFil-A would never hire the pro-abortion Notre Dame vermin.
Benedict is turning into the Dr. Rowan Williams of Rome.
You wrote:
“Benedict is a major disappointment and Notre Dame is a disgrace.”
You’re half right. Notre Dame is a disgrace. But to call Benedict a major disappointment only highlights your unrealistic expectations and not any failure on his part. He’s the pope, not God. Notre Dame is in OUR country and is the problem of OUR hierarchy and Church. And OUR hierarchy failed. Only about 75 or so bishops spoke up. That’s nothing!!!
But this isn’t over yet. The Church moves SLOWLY.
70% of the students there were FOR! What could have Benedict done about that? He got the message, and so should we.
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