As incredible as it seems, the comments below the article are worse than original oped.
As incredible as it seems, the comments below the article are worse than original oped.
They're too stupid to know that this is exactly what they got in the Zero.
This article is bs.
If Obama was so moved by Bernadin, I wonder why he did not become a Catholic?
Thomas J. Reese, S.J.
A disgrace to the Catholic Church
And why? Why make such an effort to beguile Catholics?
Because a) our vote really matters and b) he's attempting things as president that no real Catholic would countenance for an instant. He's on the offensive.
Their functional premise is that the media will never, ever portray the true doctrine to anyone, and therefore that lax Catholics can be fooled into thinking that anyone and everyone who "protests" what happened at Notre Dame is a "right wing extremist," and God knows nobody wants to be one of those.
However, this is a faulty strategy, because the Church ain't General Motors, and Obama can't change the law of the Church like he did the laws affecting credit and commerce. The Church will speak the truth, Catholics will get it, and will respond with a conviction that will make the head of this presumptuous liar spin.
Obama, you've f&*ked up.
Jesuits.......Despicable anymore.
“demands strict loyalty and demonizes opponents,”
He must be talking about liberals.
1. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a mortal sin in any and all circumstances.
2. To be a Catholic, one must unreservedly hold as truth all that the Catholic Church teaches.
3. Therefore, any person who does not believe that that abortion is a mortal sin in any and all circumstances is not a Catholic, but a heretic.
It really is just that simple.
Yo, Fr. Sorin! Pray for us!
This is really extraordinary. How can there be compromise on a topic where no compromise can exist?
One either allows the child in its mother’s womb be born; or the child’s life is ended in the womb.
It is as simple as that.
The pro-choice folk who have you believe otherwise.
They also favor saving whales, and penguins and seals and polar bears before human children. I like all of those animals, but they are not as important as children.
Sadly, Reese is right - in the headline at least. Bambi effectively nationalized the Catholic Church yesterday, taking it over just the way he has taken over every other industry.
With the help of traitors on the inside, such as Jenkins and the herd of dumbos chanting “yes we can” at the graduation, he stripped it away from its legitimate directors, the bishops and Rome, and essentially made himself its central figure.
Poor dumb bishops. Even the good ones were too weak and too late in their protests, and the only one who could actually have done anything, Bp D’Arcy, said all the right things but never followed through with any action. And now they’ve lost their authority and lost their church.
The only way they can get it back is if they act right now to strip ND of its Catholic status and suspend Jenkins. But they won’t. The USCCB is forming a committee to “examine” it, something that normally takes at least a year and often several years.
By that time, we’ll probably see the Abomination of Desolation sitting in the Holy Place.
Major projectile vomit!!!! Fr. Reese can stick it.
Who amongst us doesn't fight to reduce the number of abortions?
This so-called priest's rationalization for supporting a pro abortion President is breath taking. There is no need to waste 45,000 per year to send your student to a Catholic University because the University more than likely doesn't teach or support Catholicism.
I'm certain these very same "priests" were properly distraught at the sex abuses of their fellow "priests'; yet abortion is an issue upon which we must find common ground. What worse abuse might there be than abortion?
You look at people's actions, policies and track record, not what they say. Obama's history as an extreme anti-life politician is objective fact, while his nice sounding moderate general platitudes are just designed to lure pro-lifers into complacency while he's implementing his agenda. Whether Reese is a fool for buying this or an unscrupulous person who actually wants to combat Catholic teaching on abortion, I don't know.
Won’t read anything by Thomas Reese. He’s a puke.
In other words, That One was respectful of all those views held by liberal Catholics in the last 30 years who have been hell bent on changing the Church to suit their own personally held beliefs.
Those are NOT the views of the Catholic Church, herself, nor of the millions of FAITHFUL Catholics in the United States.
Graduates want Good Jobs.....Obama has none.