Obama, pope share ideals, DeLauro says (CT Congress Critter)

Today’s meeting between President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI will bring together two leaders who share a vision for helping the needy of the world and working toward peace, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, said Thursday.

Obama’s first meeting with the leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics follows the release of the encyclical “Charity in Truth” on Wednesday, in which Benedict stated that love of neighbor and justice require the wealthy and powerful nations of the world to help the poor, seek peace and protect the Earth.

“He presents a challenge to all political leaders,” DeLauro said of the pope, during a conference call sponsored by the group Catholic Democrats. She quoted the pope’s statement in his encyclical: “Thus every economic decision has a moral consequence.”

“I believe that President Obama believes strongly” in the same principles, said DeLauro, who was joined in the conference call by U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., and Patrick Whalen, president of Catholic Democrats.

DeLauro also noted Obama is willing to speak out on difficult issues, and has done so in speeches about race, abortion and relations with the Muslim world.

“I think he’s a man with a mission,” McGovern said of Obama. “I believe that he really wants to change things and I think this pope, with the encyclical that he has issued, has put forth a framework not only for the United States to follow but for the world to follow.”

McGovern said the summit will “provide, quite frankly, the political cover in some cases” to deal with difficult issues such as the Middle East, hunger and poverty.

“What the meeting is about in my view is about building relationships,” DeLauro said.

But the real rub regarding this letter from 50 U.S. Catholic Congressmen is the fact that the ring-leader of this aliance of the concerned is none other than Rosa DeLauro, Democrat from Connecticut. Don't remember her? Oh, she's an old hand at writting letters to the Pope. She was the one who, back in 2006, got the same group of concerned Catholic congressmen to write to Pope Benedict in protest to his statement that public officials who support abortion should not receive Holy Communion.

So, let's recap and see if we have this straight: the Pope has no right to tell Catholic politicians who funnel millions of dollars of tax-payer money into the slaughter of innocent, unborn children that they're wrong; but they have every right to tell the Pope that he's wrong because he hasn't condemned Nazism again this week. Yeahsureright!

I don't know about you, but this business of telling the Pope how to do his job is getting a bit worn on me. Ms. DeLauro and her aliance of the concerned would probably tell me that the Pope shouldn't tell her how to do her job, either. The problem is, he's not. He's telling her how to be a good Catholic—something in which she has, obviously, never been interested.

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The above is a political statement.
A staement of fact is the Pope has shown leadership in over seeing the Catholic Religion. Obamais an elected official who has shown ZERO leadership ability up to this point. Nothing in Obamashistroy shows any regard for helping the needy including needy familymembers.

I think he’s a man with a mission,” McGovern said of Obama.

Yes Mr.McGovern he is. But the mission of turning the United States into a 3rd world Nation destroying the US Constitution and the American way of life are not a good mission to most of us........

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