If it becomes accepted that Catholic public officials must follow the dictates of the Vatican wrt their public office (not just their personal lives), a notion that JFK had dispelled at one point, then non-Catholics will not vote for any Catholics to be in public office, and righty so. Public officials must serve the whole populace, not just Catholics. It saddens me that Catholic bishops insist on telling US government what to do by ordering Catholic public officials ho they must conduct their public office, undoing what JFK ran on.
Keep it up, if you don't any non-Catholc votes.
One more thing: The Catholic Church is against the death penalty, yet Catholic bishop do NOT deny communion to Catholic Republican public officials that favor and carry out the death penalty. That is total hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is one of the worst sins that there is, according to Jesus's teachings.
Pepeof WA4:56AM March 30, 2009
The appointment of Sebelius is one more slap in the face orchestrated by the Obama administration and directed at the Catholic church, orthodox monotheists and those opposed to a platform that constitutes an abysmal failure of human compassion towards the most innocent members of society. The appointment is consistent with this administration's disregard for human life, further demonstrated by the dissolution of the Mexico City policy and subsequent funding for embryonic stem cell research. The late pope John Paul II courageously and clearly articulated this downwardly spiraling morass of evil, calling our culture a "Culture of Death" which indeed it is.
The American people, particularly those affiliated with an exponentially expanding federal government along with a gaggle of social engineers, refuse to recognize that America's problems are not simply economic or political. In fact, they are symptomatic of a much greater crisis. We are a morally bankrupt nation and most certainly will collapse beneath the weight of our reprehensible misdeeds.
Much maligned and often ridiculed, fundamentalist Christians have one particular charism in their court. They call sin sin and adamantly pronounce that the only remedy for America is a radical repentance or complete departure from repugnant acts that systematically destroy the most innocent of human life. They are correct.
God may be ignored or portrayed as mythological, refuted to be mere whimsy; a teddy bear in the sky or perhaps a doting granddaddy. God may be crafted as an anachronism to be largely ignored by the illuminati, or God may be defined as whatever it is that makes people comfortable. God will be mimicked by imposters, maligned by the blasphemous and mocked by the arrogant. Ultimately God will prevail.
As regards this administration, its actions thus far and its intentions, the hope and change rhetoric espoused prior to the election illustrate an amazing propensity to influence voters while the works themselves resemble something more akin to smoke and mirrors, a grand delusion.
Prudent Americans would do well to pray for America, not that America will be delivered from the impending dissolution of a once great nation. Rather that those who pray may express their confidence in the One who alone deserves their adoration. Our current executive branch hardly deserves our accolades.
J.M. Palvadoof AL11:13PM March 12, 2009
Sebelius is not pro-abortion. A few weeks ago you had an article about people not wanting to be call the religious right. She is pro-choice or a realist.
16 yrs Reagan + Bush 2, plus a Republian Congress.
Time to face reality - Republicans are all talk and very successful at fooling people about the abortion issue.
Julieof CO10:02AM March 12, 2009
I noticed the Public Opinion Poll on President Obama opening many of his public events with prayers from local community leaders-- sounds good on the surface, but I fail to see the sincerity of his efforts at invoking All Mighty God when Mr. Obama lifted the ban on Human Embryonic Research- the least able to protect themselves. These children,(though tiny) Embryonic Humans would have at long last a great champion in President Obama for their civil rights. Please President Obama, help save these Embryonic Humans. Gloria
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