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Vatican Backs Obama's Global Agenda
ChristianWorldviewNetwork.com ^ | October 13, 2009 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 10/13/2009 12:56:05 PM PDT by editor-surveyor

Liberal and conservative Catholics alike would prefer not to discuss how the Catholic Church, here and abroad, functions like a liberal/left-wing political lobby.

Some pro-life Catholics are acting shocked that the Vatican warmly greeted the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, who is pro-abortion. They don't seem to understand that the Vatican and Obama agree on most major international issues.

This is the untold story-how Obama and the Vatican accept major ingredients of what has been called a New World Order.

Another untold story is how, despite a disagreement over abortion, the U.S. Catholic Bishops and the Obama Administration agree on major aspects of so-called health care reform.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldviewtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhovatican; bravosierra; catholic; globalism; newworldorder; nobelprize; obamacare; religiousleft; vatican; vaticanliberalism
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To: Alex Murphy
Apparently it does, for some Catholics.

Huh? The guy who praised Obama's Nobel was one official in the Vatican Press Office. This got turned into "the Vatican said" by the left-wing media, as though it were an ex cathedra Papal statement.

He ain't my husband.

41 posted on 10/13/2009 1:28:37 PM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Quix
Not a diagnosis. Just a statement of the obvious.

...if I were your supervisor...

Dream on.

42 posted on 10/13/2009 1:36:57 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Campion; editor-surveyor
The guy who praised Obama's Nobel was one official in the Vatican Press Office. This got turned into "the Vatican said" by the left-wing media, as though it were an ex cathedra Papal statement.

"The guy who praised" was Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi. The follow-up correction was written by author Lucetta Scaraffia, in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, which doesn't enjoy a good reputation among politically conservative Catholics already. I find it hilarious that FRCatholics are now praising the L'Osservatore Romano editorial as being more authoritative of the Vatican position than Fr. Lombardi's.

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L'Obsservatore Romano Needs a New Editor
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43 posted on 10/13/2009 1:38:38 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (...We never faced anything like this...we only fought humans.)
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To: Alex Murphy
You have to question the motives of the pinhead who wrote the editorial in the Worldview Times and the person who posted it here. With all of the evil loose in the world today these guys are attacking the Catholic Church which is and has been the greatest instrument of good and God's will in the history of the world. Sounds like a case of crosier envy to me.
44 posted on 10/13/2009 1:46:55 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Petronski

I’ve learned that with some

RC’s as well as some REPLACEMENTARIANS et al

the nose on their face is not obvious

and some fantasies tend to be construed as obvious fact.

Fascinating.

Poor reality testing to the max.


45 posted on 10/13/2009 1:48:52 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Alex Murphy

It’s

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TRADITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When the newspaper leaves the Pope sounding TOOOOO GLOABLIST in his priorities and values . . .

then it’s a horrid rag not worth mopping the floor with.

When the newspaper softens a more radical Vatican pontificator . . . then it’s a wonderful voice of reason.

DUPLICITY is !!!!!!!!!!!!!TRADITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in some quarters.


46 posted on 10/13/2009 1:50:30 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Natural Law

Uhhhhhhh no.

That would not be the Vatican/Roman Catholic Church

. . . particularly after subtracting out for their horrors . . .

That would be the

UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF JESUS THE CHRIST made up of every believer in Him as Savior in whatever group they were in all around the world.


47 posted on 10/13/2009 1:51:56 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
Poor reality testing to the max.

An excellent description of the rest of your post.

Most all of them, actually.

48 posted on 10/13/2009 1:52:59 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

THANKS.

It would be hard to get a better endorsement of my views than to have you hostile to them.


50 posted on 10/13/2009 1:54:43 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
"made up of every believer in Him as Savior"

You just defined the word Catholic.

51 posted on 10/13/2009 1:55:09 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Alex Murphy
"The guy who praised" was Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi.

His formal title is "Director of the Holy See Press Office," not "Vatican spokesman".

Wikipedia kindly states:

Upon assuming the directorate, Lombardi said he would not be a papal "spokesman" since he believes Benedict XVI does not need an interpreter, saying, "I don't think my role is to explain the Pope's thinking or explain the things that he already states in an extraordinarily clear and rich way."

I think it's pretty clear that Fr. Lombardi was expressing his personal opinion.

The follow-up correction was written by author Lucetta Scaraffia, in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, which doesn't enjoy a good reputation among politically conservative Catholics already.

LOR is a semi-official newspaper, which is a whole lot more official than a "Vatican spokesman said". That's just a fact.

Is everything LOR prints the ipsissima verbi Papae? Of course not. In fact, it usually isn't.

Neither are the statements of the Director of the Holy See's press office, Fr. Lombardi.

But I had no idea you were an authoritative spokesman for politically conservative Catholics! I'll just shut up now and let you tell me what to believe and whom to trust.

52 posted on 10/13/2009 1:55:48 PM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Natural Law

Which the Vatican/Roman church

does NOT hae exclusive right to

by a very wide margin.


53 posted on 10/13/2009 1:56:32 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix; Petronski; Alex Murphy
It would be hard to get a better endorsement of my views than to have you hostile to them.

This, BTW, is "making it personal".

54 posted on 10/13/2009 1:57:47 PM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Campion

Oh, Dear . . . let me reword it . . .

YEA! WONDERFUL CONFIRMATION STRIKES AGAIN!

the hostility of some RC’s and some REPLACEMENTARIANS et al to my posts . . .

is wonderful endorsement in the eyes of many.


55 posted on 10/13/2009 2:00:20 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Campion

It is also nice that so many

RC kettles are so acquainted with so many RC pots.


56 posted on 10/13/2009 2:01:08 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Alex Murphy
"Reading another FReeper's mind and attributing motives to him are forms of "making it personal."

I didn't have to read anyone's mind. I simply read their words. Unsubstantiated and untrue adhominem attacks on the Catholic Church and its Pope are making it pretty damned personal to many.

For future benefit of all posters why don't you attempt to make a clear delineation between the forbidden act of mind reading, begging a question, and the interpretation of words actually posted.

57 posted on 10/13/2009 2:01:30 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Petronski
Paranoid fantasy

Really?

Have you read the 144-page document?

Are you aware that the Vatican has stated it's pleasure that Obama has 'won' the Nobel Peace Prize?

Read the 'thing' and then comment instead of jumping on someone as being paranoid.

58 posted on 10/13/2009 2:01:59 PM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: Campion

Actually, I think, at worst, it’s borderline.

The subject was the endorsement of a written form of hostility.


59 posted on 10/13/2009 2:02:41 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
the hostility of some RC’s and some REPLACEMENTARIANS et al to my posts . . . is wonderful endorsement in the eyes of many.

The many who view ad hominem as a legitimate form of argumentation, that is.

60 posted on 10/13/2009 2:02:52 PM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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