Posted on 05/20/2009 8:29:45 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Rome, Italy, May 20, 2009 / 06:24 pm (CNA).- The Editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano explained today to Paulo Rodari, a Vatican analyst for the daily “Il Riformista,” that President Barack Obama’s speech to graduates of Notre Dame was very respectful and that he “is not a pro-abortion president.”
In the interview with Rodari, Editor-in-chief Gian Maria Vian discussed his thoughts on President Obama at the University of Notre Dame. “Obama has not upset the world,” he said. “His speech at Notre Dame has been respectful toward every position. He tried to engage the debate stepping out from every ideological position and outside every ‘confrontational mentality.’ To this extent his speech is to be appreciated.”
Vian continued, “Let me be clear, L’Osservatore stands where the American bishops are: we consider abortion a disaster. We must promote, always and at every level a ‘culture of life’.”
“What I want to stress is that yesterday, on this precise and very delicate issue, the President said that the approval of the new law on abortion is not a priority of his administration. The fact that he said that is very reassuring to me. It also underlines my own clear belief: Obama is not a pro-abortion president,” he told Rodari.
Continuing the interview, Rodari stressed that L' Osservatore Romano ran two different stories on the same issue, one positive about Obama's speech at Notre Dame, the other extremely critical about his embryonic stem cell research position which quoted the concerns of the USCCB.
Vian answered: “This is our policy, the way we inform. If a national bishops’ conference says something, we report it.” However, she continued, it is “appropriate to present other perspectives” to the readers so they can accurately judge "international information.”
According to Rodari, "the words of Vian are important. Because they speak about a confrontation between Obama and the Catholic Church which for now seems to be limited mainly among part of the American episcopate. A confrontation that the Holy See neither approves nor disapproves. Simply observes."
maybe he will qualify for pro-abortion when the SOTUS nominee is announced this week. Judge Woods anyone?
(Usually a partial-birth abortion procedure and the baby slipped all the way out before the doctor could get to the bruesome parts of the procedure, in case you were wondering how the baby can "somehow" escape the womb.)
I hope it’s the one whose on the board at Notre Dame. That way we’ll get the whole corrupt ND board of trustee’s on the map. They need to be outed.
Vian is new to this position ... maybe he needs a new job.
Good grief, that idiot should be replaced forthwith.
1) The Church leadership (diocesan, national and papal) gets about 10% from the regular parochial collection. The rest goes to the parish.
2) If your parish doesn’t collect enough, it will close. If all good Catholics — those who seek out the best parishes — stop tithing, the best parishes will close while the worst ones will remain standing.
3) Religious orders do not, I believe, tithe up, except to the rest of their congregation. There are plenty (at least hundreds) of faithful religious orders/groups worldwide, like Priests for Life, the Fraternity of St. Peter, the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT).
Sounds like something a DEMOCRAT would say.
What is this guy smoking? This is a disaster. If there weren’t already enough Catholics voting Democrat, now they’ve just had reinforced in their tiny little brains that Democrats are pro-life and it’s ok to vote for them.
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