“... the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which is marked on May 11.
Not that it isn’t always good to pray for vocations ... but wouldn’t it make more sense to issue this message in May?”
This Pope is like our President. He’s on stage just about every other day. Always in the headlines. No offense, but he needs to just learn his new job and stay off the podium for a while. Way too much face time, indeed. Neither Benedict nor even John Paul II sought the limelight quite as much as this Pope seems to want to do. He needs to give it a rest for a while and relax. He’ll make less verbal gaffes that way.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. One may reasonably assume that all the Popes during this 50-year period have issued a document to remind the Church of this. Issuing a document is neither being “on the podium” nor “face time” nor “on stage.” It is the kind of thing Popes do, telling the Church about this or that.
I think comparing any decent person to Infanticide Obama is offensive, no matter how many “no offense” disclaimers are claimed.