Posted on 07/10/2009 7:57:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
When President Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, there were no right-wing Catholic demonstrators upbraiding the pontiff, as they did Notre Dame earlier this year, for conferring the church's legitimacy upon this liberal politician.
In fact, whether he is the beneficiary of providence or merely of good luck, Obama had his audience with Benedict just three days after the release of a papal encyclical on social justice that places the pope well to Obama's left on economics.
What a delightful surprise it would be for a pope to tell our president that on some matters, he's just too conservative.
The disjunction between Vatican attitudes toward Obama and those of the most conservative forces inside the American Catholic Church has been obvious from the moment Obama won election.
The conservative minority among the bishops as well as political activists on the Catholic right have insisted on judging the president only on the basis of his support for legal abortion and stem cell research.
But the Vatican clearly views Obama through a broader prism. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papal nuncio in Washington, has privately warned American bishops that harsh attacks on Obama threaten to make the church look partisan.
The Vatican press has been largely sympathetic to Obama, and in a recent article, Cardinal Georges Cottier, who was the theologian of the papal household under Pope John Paul II, praised Obama's "humble realism" on abortion and went so far as to compare the president's approach to that of St. Thomas Aquinas. (Pray this won't go to Obama's head.)
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As I understand it, The Vatican is its own country. So I have a few questions for Pope Benedict: Does everybody who has any kind of job in the country of The Vatican belong to a Union?
Does every person who works in The Vatican have employer-paid health care?
What is the minimum wage in The Vatican? 100 Lira an hour?
“The Vatican press has been largely sympathetic to Obama...”
If they knew Obama was a muslim (”my muslim faith”). would they be so sympathetic?
I wish he would incwood his wisp in his articles.
How about immigration laws?
The list of unanswered (actually, unasked) questions continues to grow.
The Pope or the Vatican giving economic advice is like Ralph Nader running the Ford Motor Corp. It is the surest path to economic disaster.
Benedict XVI Offers Life Lessons to Obama (at Vatican meeting today)
When Pope Benedict was Cardinal Ratzinger, he forecast the current financial troubles in 1985. I do think he knows what he is talking about. (And remember he’s German!)
Are you going to actually read the encyclical or are you going to be just another stooge and believe the leftstream media spin of what they want you to think the encyclical says?
Just saw on another thread that you are a pastor so I know you are open minded in doing your job.
The information about the forecasting of the current financial woes was made in 1985 and was posted in one of the Caritas in Veritate threads. (Right now I have no idea which one — wish I had copied it off!)
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