Leading Vatican Official Cites ND Honor for Obama as 'Greatest Scandal'

[Joanne98]

WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Vatican's highest court, the Apostolic Signatura, called on Catholics to "give an uncompromising witness" to the dignity of life and sharply criticized the University of Notre Dame for its planned honor for pro-abortion President Barack Obama during an address this morning to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

The archbishop began his address by noting that he has "the deepest concern for our nation," and later implored Catholics to be aware of the "godless secularism and relativism" that underlie the Culture of Death. He noted that "we would be right to be discouraged if this were just up to us," and talked about the importance of Eucharistic Adoration and praying the Rosary.

Commenting on the ongoing scandal of Notre Dame's planned honor for President Obama, Archbishop Burke received a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 1,200 when he called it "rightly the source of the greatest scandal." He said that Catholic universities and schools "must be beacons of truth and right conduct."

He went on to note that if our Catholic universities are not willing to accept the suffering that is necessary to the witness of the faith "then they are not worthy of the name Catholic."

Patrick J. Reilly, president of The Cardinal Newman Society, which has been spearheading a petition effort against Notre Dame's decision, commented on Burke's remarks, saying, "The faithful in the Church and especially Catholics in America are blessed to have a shepherd such as Archbishop Burke reminding us of our responsibilities as disciples of Christ to always and everywhere proclaim the Truth."

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09050804.html

The HERETICS can't talk about MONEY since they sold their souls to Wall Street so they continue to bash Obama over the phoney life WEDGE ISSUE. The truth is that the pro-life groups are responsible for abortions because they keep voting to give ALL THE MONEY TO THEIR MASTERS AT THE TOP. When people can't afford children THEY DON'T HAVE THEM DUH! That's why abortions AND divorce rates always GO UP during Republican presidencies.

[Critters2]

1. Greatest scandal? Seriously? Worse than the sex abuse thing?

Someone needs to get a grip.

[Blue_Tires]

31. worse than the Crusades? The Inquisition? Nazi alliances in WWII?

centuries of under-the-table interference with global politics?

[BonnieJW]

32. Worse than the Spanish Inquisition?

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[Bill McBlueState]

4. Your caps lock key is stuck. n/t

[STOP_BS]

7. your caps lock key is stuck.n/t

sorry.

[ejpoeta]

5. the taxpayers have also had to pay for the deaths of innocent iraqis. innocents all over the middle

east. give me a break!

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[ejpoeta]

16. sure isn't helping the situation. i think we would fare better by HELPING the people

to rebuild their country, their schools.... not do it for them, but help THEM to do it for themselves. we can't expect them to be us, to transplant our country and its model over there. helping them to build their country i think would be the best way to help them want to create a better country for themselves.

[Joanne98]

18. GOOD quit waging a war against the poor by whining about your TAXES!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

20. Enjoy the Pizza...

[ShortnFiery]

8. What the ..... FOX! nt

[rubberducky]

9. Damn! Now you did it!!

Making me think of pizza long before dinnertime!

[Joanne98]

10. BECAUSE if they didn't have abortions you would WHINE about WELFARE.

KEEP KILLING THE BABIES BY CRYING ABOUT YOUR TAXES!

[sharp_stick]

14. Man I'm getting hungry here?

Anybody else, I'm looking for delivery?

[Mrs. Overall]

21. IS DU GOING TO PAY FOR YOUR PIZZA?

THIS IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF DU.

I DON'T WANT MY DONATION TO FINANCE YOUR PIZZA ON DU.

WHY DO WE DUERS HAVE TO PAY $22.95 FOR YOUR PIZZA? WHY CAN'T YOU PAY FOR YOUR OWN PIZZA?

[Joanne98]

24. LOL

[sharp_stick]

28. Subsidies are socialism

aren't we all supposed to be socialists now? I keep hearing that.

;-)

[Earth Bound Misfit]

25. Should be here in 5...4...3...2...

[RaleighNCDUer]

34. So YOUR taxes are not paying for abortions. YOUR taxes are

paying for AIDS relief in Africa.

Just like for the past 8 years, MY taxes were not paying for Bush's wars - they were paying for the National Endowment for the Arts.

[ejpoeta]

3. really? the greatest scandal? far more of a scandal than all those child molestors that the

vatican protected and allowed to continue preying on children for decades? really?

[ShortnFiery]

6. I look forward to continued "shrinkage" of the Catholic Church.

I attended Mass up until six months ago. Instead I volunteer at our local shelter.

We can all do what's right in our hearts to serve God independently of "The Church."

I do love the core religion of Catholicism. It saddens me that it's turned into a right wing patriarchy. :(

[spanone]

11. yea, i guess porking altar boys is in the bible somewhere...

[Metta]

12. The Pope has nothing better to waste his time on than to ignore his own back yard.

shmuck. Happy karma, Pope.

[Joanne98]

19. I know Italy has the lowest birthrate in the world. Must be a lot of abortions there.

But the Pope is too busy sticking his nose in OUR business all the time he probably hasn't noticed!

[Sultana]

27. WORD!

[Metta]

36. and condoms. nt

[Turbineguy]

15. Pro- Abortion?

I didn't know anybody was pro-abortion. I thought it was a bad choice rather than a worse choice.

[truebrit71]

17. Time for this cult of child-molesters to lose their tax exempt status..

..I am thoroughly sick and tired of being spoken to about "morality" and "Godliness" by a bunch of child-raping cover-up artists led by a former Hitler Youth member..

[Joanne98]

22. Amen to that! I'm sick of the Vatican!

[FiveGoodMen]

35. SO well put!

:toast:

[madmom]

23. "must be beacons of thruth.." yeah how about that?

[11 Bravo]

26. Oh yeah, this is much worse than A BUNCH OF KIDDY-DIDDLING PRIESTS!

Fucking idiot.

[asjr]

29. God is going to get him for saying that.

[Joanne98]

30. STOP-BS moved to this thread to whine about taxes some more..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3868509&mesg_id=3868553

[Earth Bound Misfit]

33. The Pizza has arrived...

R.I.P AZZHOLE...