Vatican senior official, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, says that the “road to disappointment [with the Obama administration]” will be short. Read about it below.
Archbishop Rino Risichella
President, Pontifical Academy for Life
Angered that President Obama, on the third day of his term, overturned an eight-year-old ban on funding abortions and family planning overseas, the Archbishop said:
What is important is to know how to listen… without locking oneself into ideological visions with the arrogance of a person who, having the power, thinks they can decide on life and death
While many of us here in the U.S. watched with dismay the adoration and willingness of voters to follow Barack Obama just about anywhere, for just about any reason, and the same for those throughout the world who desperately wanted him to be President of the World, the chickens are coming home to roost - morning is dawning.
What can be more important than granting a President the power over life or death? Fisichella laments:
I do not believe that those who voted for him took into consideration ethical themes, which were astutely left aside during the election debate. The majority of the American population does not take the same position as the president and his team
Just before the November election, Gallup polled Catholic Hispanics in America supporting Barack Obama by 65 percent to McCain’s 26 percent support.
Obviously, the Vatican is not getting the message through to their own, and probably, today’s Catholics living in America view the Holy See’s influence as a sideline to their faith.
Known as the “Mexico City Policy,” or the “Global Gag Rule,” much of the world is viewing abortion, and specifically funding abortion with American dollars, as a Human Rights issue which will abolish the “deaths and injuries of countless women and girls.”
Obama affects the sanctity of life around the globe - Video
Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the video
January 25th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Well…the RC gave up all moral authority to say anything when they coddled, hid, and protected pervert priest who committed adultery, fornication and sodomy and to this day still pay off victims with hush money. The Lord will continue to clean out His own house of all hypocrisy and sin and to expose all apostasy (beginning with the false church of pervert Rome)
January 25th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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January 25th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
PANTS ON FIRE:
US AID can not fund abortions. Period. It can NOW fund agencies that use other money to fund abortions.
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(f)(1)), prohibits nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive Federal funds from using those funds “to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning, or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions.” The August 1984 announcement by President Reagan of what has become known as the “Mexico City Policy” directed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand this limitation and withhold USAID funds from NGOs that use non-USAID funds to engage in a wide range of activities, including providing advice, counseling, or information regarding abortion, or lobbying a foreign government to legalize or make abortion available.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/MexicoCityPolicy-VoluntaryPopulationPlanning/
January 25th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
So the Vatican has a problem? The Vatican has no problem with shielding pedophile priests, restoring other priests, whom are anti-Semitic, then condemns other individuals for “locking oneself into ideological visions with the arrogance of a person who, having the power, thinks they can decide on life and death�. The leader of every nation on earth has the power of life over death. The Vatican should correct their own organization, before making judgments upon others. Talk about arrogance!
January 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Killing babies, over all things in the name of convenience, is WRONG, be it said by a pedophile or a saint.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@ L Rivera, Amen to that.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
So our tax dollars are going to fund abortion in the United States AND overseas? Is that for American citizens overseas or are we now just funding abortions for the world?
January 26th, 2009 at 7:24 am
I can not understand how people can justify the murder of an unborn child. Would these same supporters of murder tell a Farmer to go plow up his recent planted field because he can not yet see the plant. That old Farmer knows that from the moment he plants that seed and waters it, it is alive. This is the point that Barack Obama does not get. Obama said that he does not know when life actually begins, this is the only way he can ease his tormented soul. Think about it, all these well trained College folks can not even understand the basic principles of how a seed produces its’ fruit etc. You would think that these people of higher learning could understand that a seed can not grow unless it is alive.
January 26th, 2009 at 8:33 am
This is a typical attack by liberals, and they use it on conservatives all the time. They point out some other irrelevant issue that seems to make the person appear hypocritical, thus weakening their original point. However, it is a total strawman argument and should be called out for what it is.
In this case, the libs want to claim that just because the Vatican’s reaction to the pedophile scandal was pretty weak, that they should no longer have any voice when it comes to moral issues. Never mind the fact that the Catholic Church is the largest religious institution in the world, and abortion is an entirely different subject and issue then priest pedophilia, we should ignore them because they didn’t have a perfect response to some other unrelated issue.
There might be plenty to criticize the Catholic church for, but not when it comes to abortion. They have been a staunch defender of the lives of babies forever and public opinion has not wavered that support at all.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Is it surprising that people use this article as a forum for spreading hatred towards the Catholic Church? Of course not. Instead of thinking with their passions, they should try thinking with their head. Then they will see that there is absolutely no argument that can be used to justify the moral atrocity that is being perpetrated in the name of “choice”. The “choice” to kill is not choice; it is legalized murder, plain and simple.
The Obama administration’s first few days have already given the world a prophetic glimpse into what we can expect from that president — and it is not the defence of the most vulnerable members of society.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
All we are going to see is the liberal agenda being set forth for the next several years.