Enough of that there Catholic bashing - here's proof that we get the credit

[hedgehog]

for Obama's election:

A document of the US Catholic Bishops is partly to blame for the abandonment of pro-life teachings by voting Catholics and the election of the “most pro-abortion president” in US history, one of the Vatican’s highest officials said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com.
Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, named a document on the election produced by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that he said “led to confusion” among the faithful and led ultimately to massive support among Catholics for Barack Obama.



http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09012805.html


Actually, it serves more as proof that not even the bishops are in lock step, let alone the laity!

[anonymous171]

1. American Catholics have a long history of ignoring the Vatican.

In fact, we even have our very own heresy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy)

[hedgehog]

2. You say sensus fidelium, I say sensus fidei!

[grannie4peace]

3. that sounds so weird, obama is so much more,

how can they be so blind?:wtf:

[hedgehog]

4. well, the point is that the laity , at least, isn't blind and apparently

the American bishops as a group aren't meeting the standards of the extreme right wingers in the Vatican any more, either.

[HubertHeaver]

5. It is quite simple--Their heads are stuck squarely in the

fifteenth century. (three-story earth-centric universe, stars in fixed positions, world populated strictly by Christians or Heathens)

[AnnieBW]

6. God forbid that Catholics cared more about feeding their own kids

than worrying about someone else's fetus!