What will Benedict say to Barack?

Deacon's Bench ^ | 06-2009 | New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan

[Salvation]

What will Benedict say to Barack?

"When we preach, we say you're supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. We believe in what you call the via media, the middle way. We would always condemn unbridled cutthroat capitalism as well as socialism. So we think, as Aristotle said, in the middle you find virtue.

"So, with President Obama, I think Pope Benedict will say, 'Thank you for trying to see that health care will be expanded. Thank you for the overtures you are making for peace and justice, particularly the bridges you are building with the Islamic world.'

"He would say, never forget the needs of the poor. But while you're at it, let's not forget the virtues of private capital.

"Economic freedom, the freedom that comes from a man or woman's opportunity to make his or her own living, to take care of their families and others.

"It's tough to achieve, the balance. It's a tightrope. But you'll always hear the Pope calling us back to the middle, to virtue."

-- New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, 

offering his idea of what the Pope might say to the President 

when they meet in July.

PHOTO:   Archbishop Timothy Dolan at JFK Airport, before his trip to Rome to receive the palium.  From The New York Daily News.

[Salvation]

** But you'll always hear the Pope calling us back to the middle, to virtue."**

Will Obortion Obama even understand 'virture?'

[Salvation]

Your thoughts on what Pope Benedict might say to Barack-—

Ping!

[ETL]

I wonder if he will ask Obama about the 20+ years he spent in Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Theology church. Benedict himself denounced it a couple of decades ago.

Excerpt from The American Thinker
Article: Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx
May 28, 2008

Just one nugget from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Instruction on Certain Aspects of the ‘Theology of Liberation': "...it would be illusory and dangerous to ignore the intimate bond which radically unites them (liberation theologies), and to accept elements of the marxist analysis without recognizing its connections with the (Marxist) ideology, or to enter into the practice of the class-struggle and of its marxist interpretation while failing to see the kind of totalitarian society to which this process slowly leads."--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect, now Pope Benedict XVI; written in 1984

Understanding that black liberation theology is Marxism dressed up to look like Christianity helps explain why there is no conflict between Cone's "Christianity" [i.e. 'reverend Wright's thing] and Farrakhan's "Nation of Islam." They are two prophets in the same philosophical (Marxist) pod, merely using different religions as backdrops for their black-power aims.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html

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The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

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"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From HumanEvents.com...
April 29, 2008

"Obama did not address the [Rev Wright] issue squarely until forced to justify his relationship with Wright, his pastor at Trinity United Church in Chicago, for over 20 years. In a speech several weeks ago, Obama denounced Wright’s comments but justified them by saying that America didn’t really know Wright. Obama’s connection to the pastor runs deep, as he titled his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” after a sermon Wright gave. Wright also baptized Obama and his children as well as performing the marriage ceremony of Michelle and Barack Obama."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26261
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

I thought this was going to be a piece speculation on what Benedict Arnold will say to Obortion when they meet in Hell.

[buccaneer81]

Well, he certainly won't bow or kiss the Pope's ring. That's reserved for his Muslim overlords.

Is Michelle going with him? I can't imagine what she'll say or do.

[workerbee]

“May God have mercy on your soul.”

[workerbee]

Bet she wears something, oh I don’t know.... fuschia?

[SampleMan]

Perhaps, “Get behind me Satan!”

[mckenzie7]

I pray for Pope Benedict, facing the evil O. When it comes to O, I have a hard time remaining Christian.

I do need to pray for him, if for no other reason, than to soften my own heart!

[netmilsmom]

Read my tagline.

I actually went to confession with the same problem as yours. The Priest told me to pray for his enlightenment and that my anger is justified. I can be angry with 0’s actions as long as I don’t let it get the best of me or wish him personal harm. So every prayer for him should be followed by a prayer that my anger be kept in check.

And that in all things, The Lord knows what He is doing.

As for what the Pope will say to the Big 0?
Nothing. I would like to see B16 throw Holy Water on him then giggle while he sizzles and hisses.

[SnakeDoctor]

Let my people go ...

SnakeDoc

[workerbee]

ROFL

(sorry, can’t help it!)

[Venturer]

I only know what I wish he would say.

[redhead]

"Bet she wears something, oh I don’t know.... fuschia?j"

With horizontal ruffles on the too short skird, and a tank top covered by a too-small cardigan. I'll bet she tries to lay the Stink-eye on BXVI.

[redhead]

"skird"

How the heck should I know?? I never heard of one before, either. I MEANT "skirt." Jeeze.

[dforest]

Get thee behind me Satan.

[Mr Rogers]

“I would like to see B16 throw Holy Water on him then giggle while he sizzles and hisses.”

Very Good! My hope (and I’m a Baptist, so I doubt I have much pull with the Pope):

He slugs Obama, ties him up, and then starts sharpening a couple of large knives.

“Tell me again, Barry, why it isn’t evil to cut a helpless human to pieces...”

[RichInOC]

“Mr. President, I know Jesus. Jesus is a good friend of mine. And my son...you are no Jesus.”

[Mr Rogers]

” We believe in what you call the via media, the middle way...So we think, as Aristotle said, in the middle you find virtue.”

I guess he has a copy of that book Rush keeps mentioning, “100 Great Moderates Who Changed History”.

In the middle, you find compromise.

[Mr. Lucky]

Welcome to Hell

Oh, wait. I thought the article was about Benedict Arnold, not the Holy Father.