Posted on 10/09/2009 4:08:25 PM PDT by wagglebee
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Lombardi is a Jesuit, which explains much, although not how he got his current job.
From Wikipedia:
On 11 July 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him director of the Vatican Press Office, replacing Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, who had held the post for 22 years.[2] Lombardi’s appointment to the Press Office of the Holy See merged with it the leadership of Vatican Radio and Vatican Television Center as well, as he continues to hold those directorships.[1]
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.”[3] He is considered to be taking a more low-key approach than his predecessor.[3]
Why would anyone say (especially a Catholic say) that Obama should have this prize.
Let’s ask all the babies in heaven who were aborted because of Obama’s mindset what they think.
And I’m sure that God would send Obama straight to the netherworld/Gehenna. (But I really can’t make this judgment, only God can.)
Shameful for Obortion Obama to get a peace prize at all.
Please do not use The LORD’s Name in vain. Thank you.
The Catholic Church is exceedingly wrong. This is beyond words. I cannot begin to express my disdain for any “Church” that would condone someone as evil as this abortion and postborn baby murder promoter receiving a peace prize. PURE EVIL.
I see you have misunderstood me. I meant the statement literally: he is, for the sake of Christ, in touch with reality. Abp Chaput is defending the Gospel of Life and opposing Obama in the name of the Lord.
With reference to your later post: the "Catholic Church" is not praising Obama. These various Curial personages are exposing themselves as --- at best --- sillies on stilts, and ---at worst --- corrupt men deceived by the glamor of evil. (To use a familiar phrase.)
Abt Chaput, on the other hand, opposes Obama and defends the doctrines of the Church. We pray for him -- and the Church ---to prevail.
VATICAN SPOKESMAN Fr. Federico Lombardi has reacted to the Nobel Peace prize being awarded to President Barack Obama saying that the news "WAS GREETED WITH APPRECIATION AT THE VATICAN in light of the president's demonstrated commitment to promoting peace on an international level and, in particular, in recently promoting nuclear disarmament."
According to the First Vatican Council The Catholic Church established that clearly The Pope is responsible for discipline at all levels of the Catholic Church. They have not carried out their necessary responsibilities. This cannot be denied. The First Vatican Council clearly states:
If anyone thus speaks, that the Roman Pontiff has only the office of inspection or direction, but not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which pertain to faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government of the Church spread over the whole world; or, that he possesses only the more important parts, but not the whole plenitude of this supreme power; or that this power of his is not ordinary and immediate, or over the churches altogether and individually, and over the pastors and the faithful altogether and individually: let him be anathema.
I understand that the Vatican is taking the initial steps to beatify Obama and place him on the road to sainthood.
What you “know” about the Vatican could fill an adult diaper.
Simple minds like yours confuse the idiotic statement of one person with the Church.
My traditional priest will make some kind of sardonic statement about this in his sermon, I guarantee it.
not surprise here as most clergy are registered democrats and if they aren’t here in America, they follow the same philosophy.
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Power corrupts.
And absolute power corrupts absolutely!
And nauseating to non-Catholics as well! I honor (practicing!) Catholics as a valuable bulwark against evil and immorality.
Nothing but a bottomless excuse for all the lack of discipline being executed by The Catholic Church. Sounds a bit like ACORN saying that the many perverted and criminally libel ACORN workers have nothing to do with ACORN on the whole but are just a few bad employees.
This "one person", Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi is the official director of the Vatican Press Office. He is also the general director of Vatican Radio and general director of the Vatican Television Center. To put it mildly he is the Robert Gibbs of The Vatican. He is the official spokesperson of The Vatican. I do not think he is just "one person". The Pope certainly is completely aware of him and needs to reign him in and do so publicly if what he said ....." the Nobel Peace prize being awarded to President Barack Obama saying that the news "was greeted with appreciation at the Vatican".... does not reflect The Vatican.
To say the news was greeted with appreciation at the Vatican is to say that The Pope greeted it with appreciation. Either Fr. Lombardi misunderstood The Pope or the Pope is wrong. If Fr. Lombardi misunderstood The Pope the issue must be clarified for justice, truth and decency. There is no possible that an abortion zealot and an avid promoter of children after birth be left to die miserably be deserving of any peace prize, ever!
This guy ought to start reading more than Il Progresso or whatever he is wasting his time on.
Painfully ironic to see the reputation the Church gets in the eyes of the world: simultaneously "too authoritarian" and "too damned slack."
Please pray for me and mine, as I will for you and yours.
Actually the church has always been pro affirmative action. They are praising Obama’s race - the first American black president; not who he is under his skin or the content of his character. It is a shame they have not grown beyond the tribal thing but they have not.
Thank you for your pray and I pray for you and yours also. God bless!
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