Posted on 09/02/2009 7:01:01 PM PDT by cmj328
I had the opportunity to speak briefly with President Obama, to welcome him to the Basilica and to share with him that the bishops of the Catholic Church are anxious to support a plan for universal health care, but we will not support a plan that will include a provision for abortion or could open the way to abortions in the future. The President was gracious in the short time we spoke, he listened intently to what I was saying.
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What is your point?
It’s the Catholic Church’s position that everyone should have access to healthcare. However, Catholics are free to disagree on HOW to make healthcare accessible...wether it be government run or free market solutions.
Pathetic, sentimental rationalizations for sucking up to Power.
People call Sarah a “liar” because “death panels” are not in the bill. By that, they mean that the WORDS “death panels” are not in the bill.
It will be the same with “abortion.” It will be in the penumbras of emanations from parts of the bill.
Note the soft, euphemistic way O’Malley describes Kennedy’s support for abortion: Kennedy did not publically [sic] support the Church’s teaching...
Kennedy was a shrieking, screaming, devious, implacable advocate for killing everybody who couldn’t defend himself: the unborn, the partially-born, the newly-born, the comatose. Kennedy accepted an award from the very hands of abortionist Kenneth Edelin, the “Boston Strangler.” Kennedy slandered Robert Bork for weeks, primarily because Bork posed a danger to Roe v. Wade.
Then there’s O’Malley’s fulsome praise for Kennedy’s leftist, socialist agenda—which, as a bishop of the Catholic Church, O’Malley has NO RIGHT to be publicly supporting. Catholics are at liberty to reject EVERYTHING Kennedy did in his political life. They are NOT required to support the socialistic legislation Kennedy pushed for forty-seven years. A Catholic bishop should promote ONLY those things that Catholics MUST agree with him on.
Catholic Church = Islamic fundamentalism in your eyes. Interesting.
Several prelates have stated in recent news reports that the Catholic Church supports access to healthcare for all — it is a prudential judgment left up to society as a whole on dertermining how this can be done.
Considering the fact that the Catholic Church was the first to build hospitals and deliver health services to all has been totally forgotten.
Planned Parenthood is a recognized community healthcare deliverer by the federal government.
Need I say more?
Seeing they are in the business of terminating life from its beginning, no wonder they are building huge fortresses in some big cities on the chance that they may be given government contracts to terminate the lives of the elderly as well.
From distributing and cashing in on the morning after pill, it isn’t hard to imagine them creating your own personal evening of life pill!
“A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.”
Pope John Paul II
I think I made it
Thank you for your response SMCC1. However, I don't think you addressed my question. Let me re-post the supposed comment from the article:
... and to share with him that the bishops of the Catholic Church are anxious to support a plan for universal health care, ...
The ONLY plan that Obama is interested in is a government run, socialist controlled power-grab plan, that is intended to eliminate all public options.
If one is talking to Obama about being anxious to support a plan, and he has only one plan, (and the only apparent voiced concern is that the plan not include abortion), one might assume that there is support by the Roman Catholic Church for Obama's government only plan.
That is, of course, if the media isn't making this up and/or distorting the facts.
Considering the fact that the Catholic Church was the first to build hospitals and deliver health services to all has been totally forgotten.
Thank you for your response VS. See my response to SMCC1 at post #28.
Yes, society as a whole, can, and ultimately will of course, determine how the issue will be resolved.
I'm simply trying to determine if the supposed statement I referenced in the article is "true" in the sense that the Roman Catholic Church is "anxious to support a [read Obama's] plan for universal health care".
My hope is that it is not.
I would argue that while many have forgotten the Roman Catholic Church's hospitals and health services, not everyone has. Additionally, some evil-doers not only remember, they intend to ensure that these hospitals and health services fall under government control and that the workers there adhere to the death culture they envision for all of us to live under.
And without hope, people destroy the present instead of building the future.
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