Obama just wants a common ground decision on where to bury the unborn children that are being slaughtered. The common ground is the cemetery to him!
Posted on 05/18/2009 1:48:22 PM PDT by Zakeet
The Vatican said Monday that President Barack Obama was clearly looking for some common ground with his speech at the University of Notre Dame about abortion.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Obama's speech at the leading Catholic university on Sunday confirmed what he had said at a recent news conference — that signing the so-called Freedom of Choice Act in the U.S. Congress wasn't his highest legislative priority. The bill would protect a woman's right to have a child or end a pregnancy.
Obama's stance on the issue is that he supports abortion rights but says the procedure should be rare.
The article didn't mention the protest by dozens of U.S. Catholic bishops who denounced Notre Dame for honoring Obama because his abortion rights record clashes with fundamental church teaching.
[Snip]
The Vatican has been open to Obama ever since his election, despite his record on abortion and support for embryonic stem-cell research, which the Vatican also opposes.
Pope Benedict XVI broke Vatican protocol the day after Obama was elected, sending a personal note of congratulations rather than wait to send an official telegram on inauguration day.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The rest is an AP paraphrasing.
Perhaps it would be better to obtain the actual L'Osservatore Romano text, rather than simply trusting AP to do it right.
Obama just wants a common ground decision on where to bury the unborn children that are being slaughtered. The common ground is the cemetery to him!
Yeah - this one has a big stench about it; smells like a demo’rat.
It’s ridiculous that the “question of abortion” is a “delicate” one.
If there is any squeemishness, why?
If there is any moral question, why?
If there is a moral question, then there must be question as to whether an innocent human is being killed.
And if there is a question about this, the side to err on is unquestionable.
“There are many toilets in Vatican City. They all need to be cleaned. I’m quite sure that’s not above Zero’s ‘pay grade’.”
Agreed!
The Vatican said Monday that President Barack Obama was clearly looking for some common ground with his speech at the University of Notre Dame about abortion.
Once again something being claimed as being from the “Vatican”.
It is from the Vatican’s newspaper.
The “Vatican” is not a person - several people live in the “Vatican” and have their own struggles with each other.
What really matters is what the Pope says, or the Pope’s spokesperson.
Then we can say it is from the top of the chain of command.
this is very troubling. They are sending signals that they are about to choose “social justice” over human life.
All aborted children share the “common ground” of death. That is the only “common ground” that matters here.
Obama truly is an “obanination”.
Suddenly, AP becomes a reliable source on Free Republic.
That is so my question, only worded slightly differently!
Obama said at Notre Dame, that it is a MORAL decision. How can that be if it is not a human life? I mean, its not like we worry about removing a parasitic cancer tumor from the body, there is no moral or ethical issue there, unless you don’t believe in doctoring or medicine at all, in which case they would not get an abortion or any other procedure. If, in the case of someone who would doctor for a tumor, how can one be equated with another? For petes sake, does a tumor have a heart beat? Does the tumor have a different blood type? If you leave the tumor alone, after 9 months will it expel from the body and breathe on its own? Sorry, not all “blobs of tissue” are created equally, and they should NOT be treated the same.......
This is part of the further attempt by the Democrats and their media allies (AP) to wedge Catholics on this issue.
The editorial in L’Osservatore Romano is from the April 29th edition. In other words, AP has dug out an old editorial (the same basis, in some ways, for Time’s similar take on No Shame U)and make it headline news the day after the NSU debacle but without disclosing the time lag.
The OR editorial was a review of Obama’s first 100 days in office. OR does not official speak for either the pope or the curia.
In the interim, since this editorial appeared, Archbishop Burke made his speech in Washington. I imagine that to some degree his speech was a response, a correction, to this clueless OR editorial. But of course, the AP writers are clueless about all of that.
Here’s John Allen’s take:
http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/vaticans-moderate-line-obama-has-deep-roots
But now, since AP and Time have tried to use the OR editorial to wipe the floor with pro-life Catholics, the ball is in Burkes and Benedict’s court. They need to come out with a blistering attack on Obama.
But of course, even should they do that, it will be ignored by AP and Time and the rest of the Obama-worshipping press.
But they need to do it anyway.
If FOCA fails to pass, nothing would change. So its purpose is not to “protect a woman’s right to choose”. It’s purpose is to take choice away from Catholic Hospitals.
How many do you need?
All the article says to me is that Obama seeks common ground on abortion, not that the Vatican thinks a compromise is possible.
And I believe the article is another MSM attempt to screw with Catholics.
Remember confusion is the Devils Realm.
Hitler seeks common ground on concentration camps and Zyklon B.
The editorial in L’Osservatore Romano is from the April 29th edition.
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Thanks for posting!!!
If I ever met Obama I would ask him if he could find common ground with Frederick Douglass.
Douglass wrote and lectured for a lifetime on the Fact that a Human Being cannot be the property of another Human Being.
This is exactly the pro-Life argument. The new human being in the womb is NOT the Property of its mother. A person is not a thing.
I give up!!!!!!!!!!!Make nice with this loser as he strokes on the masses with words.What about his actions his action speak way louder than his words.How can anyone in the church not see this man for who he is. Lord open their eyes and let them see.
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