The Pontiff is not going to address your every provincial concern. Oh please.
The Pope had no problem lecturing Israel, and yet he can't comment on the President of the United States lecturing as to what a good or bad Catholic is?
What was surprising, and ought to be disturbing to anyone who cares about religious freedom in these United States, was the president’s decision to insert himself into the ongoing Catholic debate over the boundaries of Catholic identity and the applicability of settled Catholic conviction in the public square. Obama did this by suggesting, not altogether subtly, who the real Catholics in America are. The real Catholics, you see, are those like the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who are “congenial and gentle” in persuasion, men and women who are “always trying to bring people together,” Catholics who are “always trying to find the common ground.” The fact that Cardinal Bernardin’s undoubted geniality and gentility in bringing people together to find the common ground invariably ended with a “consensus” that matched the liberal or progressive position of the moment went unremarked — because, for a good postmodern liberal like President Obama, that progressive “consensus” is so self-evidently true that one can afford to be generous in acknowledging that others, less enlightened but arguably sincere, have different views.
And doing it from the podium of a Catholic University on one of the most important issues to the church (according to the church itself?)
Now, we have the Vatican Newspaper rubbing salt in the wound?
I know you are running defense here, but is it too much to ask for a little leadership?
Or is it time to just completely fold and appoint Nancy Pelosi as a Vatican Canon Lawyer?
The Vatican newspaper does not speak for the Pope. Archbishop Burke spoke, 70 U.S> bishops spoke, and that's plenty enough. Otherwise it is a parochial matter, and not comparable to the human rights concerns whatever they might be in Palestine.
Otherwise, why don't we demand that the Pope speak on the habit of the Notre Dame football players, few if any of them Catholic, of swearing every week on the field, or the habit of female students there to interject their cell phone conversations every 30 seconds with "Oh, my God!"
The country is lost worshipping whoever was just elected POTUS, his semi-literate idiot wife and his Jewish Svengali. More of those students there (@ND) listen to Simon Cowell than to the Pope.
As I said before, traditional Catholicism is not particularly sympathetic to Jewish claims to the Holy Land.
As for the ND thing, yeah, big disappointment, though not really a surprise.