The following comes from an Apr. 1 story on Breitbart.com.
Following his visit with Pope Francis at the Vatican last week, President Obama gave a rosary that was blessed by the pontiff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-DA).
On Tuesday, Pelosi discussed Obama’s gift to her with reporters after a luncheon with the president at the White House.
As the Washington Times reports, Pelosi said, “I was happy to receive a rosary blessed by Pope Francis. It means a great deal to me.”
Though Pelosi claims to be Catholic, she is an avid supporter of abortion and same-sex marriage, both of which conflict with the teachings of the Church.
At a gala Planned Parenthood event on March 27th, Pelosi accepted the Margaret Sanger Award, named for the famous eugenicist, for her work defending abortion rights. As Politico reported, Pelosi rebuked the pro-life community and criticized “personhood” laws, stating that the struggle for reproductive rights will continue whatever the Supreme Court decides on the HHS mandate.
Speaking about pro-life individuals, Pelosi said, “…When you see how closed their minds are or oblivious or whatever it is – dumb – then you know what the fight is about.”
Last year, Cardinal Raymond Burke, chief justice of the Vatican’s highest court, said that Pelosi should not receive communion.
“Certainly this is a case when Canon 915 must be applied,” Burke explained. “This is a person who obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin – cooperating with the crime of procured abortion – and still professes to be a devout Catholic.”
Burke added that Pelosi is an example of a Catholic who separates her faith from day-to-day living.
“This is a prime example,” said the cardinal, “of what Blessed John Paul II referred to as the situation of Catholics who have divorced their faith from their public life and therefore are not serving their brothers and sisters in the way that they must – in safeguarding and promoting the life of the innocent and defenseless unborn, in safeguarding and promoting the integrity of marriage and the family.”
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Usually, when etiquette is followed, if one receives a gift he does not want or appreciate, he discretely gives it away, or keeps it for a while, and then passes it on to someone else. Obviously Obama knows nothing of this, so he gives the papal gift to a heretical Catholic. Another thing, oftentimes when gifts are presented to heads of state, the gift actually belongs to the government whom the individual is representing. If this is indeed the case, it proves that democrats always give away things that do not really belong to them.
Father Karl, do you not understand that it is sinful to make false statements about other people? When you say “it proves that democrats always give away things that do not really belong to them”, that is exactly what you are doing. Democrats don’t give away things that do not belong to them. Where do you get such nonsense?
There are many ways in which Democrats constantly give away things that do not belong to them. For one thing, the money that taxpayers are forced to pay that are wasted on boondoggles and giveaways that serve to promote the Democratic style of garnering votes by giving away the funds entrusted to them for more important things that are related to public safety and securing our borders, not providing mandatory health care. Next I will be forced to provide mandatory housing, and anyone caught not paying for other people’s housing will be fined. Then mandatory cars, jewelry and electronic devices? To take in the needy and deserving as a matter of principle is one thing, and I will contribute to that always and ever; but to be forced to spend my money in a certain way or be fined? Unconstitutional. Democratic.
What about the Democrats proclivity of supporting abortion and forcing the rest of us to pay for other people’s birth control, morning after abortion-promoting pills (murders of children, sir!) and . . . well, honestly, the list goes on. How can anyone who claims to be our fellow Catholic rise up against a faith-promoting Catholic priest and make sport of him over a statement that may sound extreme but on further examination is as true as God Himself?
Fellow Catholic: Chill.
St. Bernardette, as Uneducated by the system as she was, when interrogated about her visions simply stated, “It is not my business to convince, only to inform.” This is the tenant of California Catholic Daily. I would like to inform you, YFC, of another great inspirational quote:
“Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.” — Fulton J. Sheen, 1953
I stand corrected, “he did not stat this is ‘TRUE'”.
The Democratic platform seeks to redistribute (that is take away and give to others) the wealth of those they perceive to be wealthy, YFC. So in effect, that party in general seeks by different means – could be made legal depending on the way elections go – to take away the fruits of others labor.
If it isn’t your hard earned cash that’s being targeted, I can see where you might believe it to be ‘nonsense.’ But if you actually ‘built that’, something that business owners actually DO much like our immigrant ancestors had to and did, you may well have a different viewpoint.
Where do you get this nonsense Ann Malley. Point out the lines in the platform. This is just utter nonsense. You lie about other people. You make things up.
I am curious,YFC, what you call increasingly heavy tax burdens for the ‘rich’. How about onerous ‘affordable healthcare’ burdens on business owners? When you, that is you, YFC, get right down to it that is the government seeking to take away the fruits of another’s labor to give to someone else on demand. Or else you will not be allowed to do business.
That’s redistribution. And it is also an open invitation for businesses to take their business overseas, taking the money and any potential tax revenue. Much like those exhausted by Robin Hood’s supposedly good hearted raids might move out of England. Looks good on the face of a Disney cartoon, but it costs America jobs and income for even the poorest of her poor.
So while Robin Hood has been painted to be the hero of the picture, what happens when film stops rolling and there’s no more industry here? And you are more than welcome to hurl aspersions of liar out of love for Robin Hood.
God bless
There is no redistribution AM. There has never in the history of our country been such a great disparity between the wealth of the top few percent and those subsisting at poverty levels. If you really believe that Democrats support a redistribution of wealth, please point to ONE program in which I can line up and receive a check from Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. People receiving unemployment checks paid into an unemployment insurance pool when they were working. The amount of money that goes into other poverty programs is utterly a drop in the bucket compared to the tax breaks that Bush gave the wealthiest Americans.
If you are really interested in reducing the tax burden, you would be in favor of paying down the national debt so that we aren’t burdened with paying interest and principle on prior year’s budgets, and you would support a massive downsizing of our national defense, which we spend more on than all the other top countries COMBINED.
You might also be in favor of massive increases in research into energy technologies, carbon capture and sequestration, and preventative medicine. And you would certainly be in favor of regulating carbon emissions so that our coastlines and our tornado alleys do not become battle zones in the environmental war we are waging against our planet.
That sounds great, but the premise is false. Your “increasingly heavy tax burdens” on the rich peaked from 1945 to 65, and top marginal tax rates are now about half of what they were then. Moreover, the top income earners now make most of their income in the form of capital gains, thus paying much lower taxes per capita than those who earn a wage or salary.
And redistribution is not synonymous with communism. It’s present in every democratic economy, and is a necessary function of a productive society. The first progressive income tax in the US was signed into law by Lincoln. There is even truth in Obama’s awkward “built that” comment, as the business environment here contains many indirect subsidies, a publicly educated workforce, navigable roads, the absence of pirates and a kidnap-for-ransom trade, etc. Medicaid and food stamps allow for otherwise untenably low wages, and externalize business costs.
There are myriad causes of globalization. Taxes factor, but it would take US allowing conditions similar to the collapsed factory in Bangladesh, a minimum wage of $37 a month (also Bangladesh) child labor and carcinogenic workplace exposure without legal recourse (China), or some major change in the cost of transcontinental shipping to make the US competitive for manufacturing, for instance, or a top tax rate similar to France’s 75% to see the rich flee here. Right now, we’re at the very low end of tax/GDP for industrialized countries.
This obsession with looking to Bush has got to stop much like the belief that more ‘programs’ are a mere drop in the bucket. The national debt has done nothing but ramp way UP under Obama. And nobody has implied that unemployment benefits are not earned. Don’t know where you got that idea.
The issue was redistribution of wealth and whereas you may not be able to sign up for a get Zuckerberg bucks, you surely can at some level if he is leveled with an ever increasing tax burden and you are not. But even so, there’s a lot of middle ground business between the poorest of the poor and those deemed rich, YFC. THOSE are the poor saps who will get hit the hardest, because they’re not quite that rich, but neither are they so called poor. That kills the middle class.
So saying, I’d opt to drill for energy sources that we know exist right here at home, take best advantage of the natural gas we’ve got here. Refine it. Ship it. Get our people WORKING and prospering right here, right now, and then explore alternative energy when there’s money to be spent, not nothing but bills to be paid, YFC.
Environmental war…HAH… another fable created by the Left,,, in the end all leftist want control over people, they failed with communism so now you are trying with green movement….nothing new under the sun
Hugh,
We can be competitive in manufacturing without being China or Bangladesh. Look at Germany. German manufacturers pay higher per hour wages than in the US, and German workers get more vacation time.
One big difference is health care costs. US companies pay health care for their employees, and this is a cost businesses cannot reliably project due to the massive rise in health care prices here. We also have the some of the highest headline corporate tax rates among developed nations, though the effective rate is considerably less for blue chips who use political muscle and know how to exploit tax breaks.
We should create a significantly lower corporate “flat tax” which gets rid of a lot of deductions and makes special tax abatement for individual businesses unconstitutional under the equal protection clause.
Ann Malley, I’m not obsessed with Bush. But unlike you, I do know the facts. Please familiarize yourself with them before accusing Obama of increasing taxes, debts, etc etc, and certainly of being a socialist or favoring a redistribution of wealth.
No need to take offense, YFC. It is not you precisely who is blaming Bush. But you have my apologies for offending you.
Please do, however, familiarize yourself with life beyond the Obama administration’s self narrative. Regarding debt and national problems, Obama inherited issues much like Bush inherited the issues that came down from previous leadership. It’s what they DO with those variables and how they either improve or degrade the position of the country that is the issue. As such, increasing the national debt will go down in history at this president’s library. As for claims of being a socialist – one can say I’m not a socialist all they’d like, but if their actions lean toward socialism, then that is what they’re about.
Much like a Catholic can claim they are Catholic all they’d like, but if their words and actions are those of an anti-Christ, that’s what they’re about. Why there is so much abject fear about owning what one is truly about amazes me – for all the self actualization and so-called pride and sophistication too many are filled with self loathing and fear of what they want to be.
God bless
AM I actually had a life before Barack Obama. I know the truth about which administrations and parties create deficits, and which ones create bull markets. Long before Obama came on the scene, going back decades, DATA confirms that republicans prevail in years of increasing debt and bear markets, and Dems in lowered debt and higher markets. It’s just an unavoidable fact. And if you want to claim, as so many do, that there is an after affect from prior adminsitrations, DO take a very close look at the 8 year Reagan years followed by the 4 year Bush years. Proving conclusively that there is no “halo affect” over one administration to the next, but that repbulican admins can’t manage the economy or the government. AND if you want to claim that current administrations inherit the issues/problems of their former administrations (the common retort to the data), then why oh WHY do you deny the fact that the Obama deficits are the result of the late-in-the-administration attempt by Bush to keep the economy from collapsing ENTIRELY!??
There is so much bad grammar in your post AM, it is unbecoming of you. It has taken me days and many reads to get your meaning. You are usually much more articulate :)
“The issue was redistribution of wealth and whereas you may not be able to sign up for a get Zuckerberg bucks, you surely can at some level if he is leveled with an ever increasing tax burden and you are not.” What does that even mean? What is a Zuckerberg buck? And “can at some level if he is leveled…” Um really, what???
But even so, there’s a lot of middle ground business between the poorest of the poor and those deemed rich, YFC. … That kills the middle class. This is why Obama lowered middle class tax rates !!!
So saying, I’d opt to drill for energy sources that we know exist right here at home, take best advantage of the natural gas we’ve got here. Refine it. Ship it. Get our people WORKING and prospering right here, right now, and then explore alternative energy when there’s money to be spent, not nothing but bills to be paid, YFC. yes, why not promote alternative energy??? Why when Obama has taken risks promoting alternative energy technologies, he has gotten so PUMMELED by those on the right? Drilling more only competes us against those with bigger reserves. We can’t win that war, sorry. We need our own NEW GAME, which is new technology and new energy.
Finally, some one with etiquette. How refreshing. Obama has just given another reason America will not be invited to any foreign event. Not to the royal wedding, the christening, etc. Shame on Obama. He gave the rosary to Polesi just because he knows how the Church thinks about her. He did it to insult the Pope.
Just terrible! How come those in high places get the blessing to meet the Pope. Then something as holy as a blessed rosary from our Pope gets in the hands of Nancy. Yet still she has a heartened heart towards church teachings. The sacramental did not change the hardened of hearts. Obama is still the same person and so is Pelosi. Free will still plays a big role in peoples rejection to holy truths.
How many people who support abortion issues pray the rosary? The answer? You would be surprised.
Abeca, I think you meant a “hardened heart” — yes? And do you have a count on how many pro=-aborts say the Rosary?
Thank you Barbara I appreciate the correction, I was careless and did not go back to correct or do some spell check. And to answer you question, I don’t have a count but I know personally of a few who voted for Obama etc and they pray the rosary.
Abeca, here’s some injustice for you to consider as well from Cardinal Pell. Church sex-abuse victims compared with Nazis.Cardinal Pell told the inquiry that victims of child sex abuse were once viewed as enemies of the Catholic Church, much like the Nazis and the communists, Cardinal George Pell said today. He said that in the mid-1990s, the Vatican’s attitude towards what he called the “scandal, the crimes” was inadequate. In Australia, a committee had been set up in 1988 to look at child sex abuse. It was called a “special issues committee”. “Sexual abuse is an ugly term and this was a euphemism,” Cardinal Pell.
When I was out of the church and about to commit a sin, someone gave me a rosary. I laid it in a trash can to be cute but then I showed someone who was just slightly more Catholic than I and they chastised me and took the rosary out. Years later, I heard the story of Fatima and believed. Shortly thereafter, a relative passed away and I decided to pray the 54 day Rosary Novena for his soul. He had been a good Catholic and it just seemed an appropriate way to honor him and to grieve him. It wasn’t long that I experience an instant and profound conversion, was reconciled with the Church through confession and was attending Mass, even daily Mass. It was from praying the Spiritual Communion at the end of that Novena that I learned of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
That is nice Anony. Glad that you were open to those graces.
It will take a miracle for some of those in power and high places to have a conversion. Take for instance the Clinton’s and the Kennedy’s, they have not converted and even some have already passed away.
What an egotist Pelosi is. Doesn’t she also sound so…. Valley Girl California, too? “Like, whatever man, everyone is so, so dumb – except me.”
What is wrong with the archbishops of SF and DC? One of you need to off the dime and do your job and implement Canon 915.
She has the blood of millions of butchered babies on her hands. Her holding a rosary is like Satan holding Christ.
Thank you jeurgesen, you are so right !
You’re welcome!
What a terrible comment. Is even Nancy Pelosi un-redeemable?
“let me but put the Rosary around the neck of a sinner and he shall not escape me”
St. Dominic
Who will be the voice of the dead unborn? They can not return, they are gone. Can we undue what was done to them? Will they return and have life again?
Let us not forget that there are still consequences to what actions people take, promote or do. Nancy Pelosi will have to answer to God and all her supporters who placed her in such a high position to decide laws that allow the murder of unborn children. Rosary or not….no one can hide.
Of course she will have to answer to God for her actions as will all of us. Including those who make outrageous and inflammatory judgements. My comment was directed at brother or sister Jurgensen.
Take the example of our Blessed Mother who prayed at the foot of the Cross. Use THIS as an opportunity for prayer and mortification rather than condemnation.
Be an example to others….
“And pray ye without ceasing, in behalf of other men. For there is in them hope of repentance that they may attain to God. See then, that they be instructed by your works if in no other way. Be ye meek in response to their wrath, humble in opposition to their boasting. To their blasphemies, return your prayers, in contrast to their error, be ye steadfast in the faith, and for their cruelty, manifest your gentleness. ”
-St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians.
God gave each of us a free will (including Pelosi) which he will not take from us.
IF she asks for forgiveness, does her best not to commit those mortal sins again, and makes reparation for her sins she will be forgiven.
Everyone chooses whether they will do God’s will or their own will.
By their own actions while on earth, they choose Heaven or Hell for eternity.
CCC: ” 2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary.
To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.”
@ keithP:
Of course Pelosi is “redeemable”. However, she hasn’t changed her support for baby-butchering one iota. Until she does – and she has given no indication ever that she might – “she has the blood of millions of butchered babies on her hands. Her holding a rosary is like Satan holding Christ.”
As an aside, it speaks volumes of you that you call my comment “terrible”, but don’t use that term to describe Pelosi, a woman who has devoted her life to legislating and funding the butchering of millions of babies,
We just keep praying, everyone has a chance, even at the moment of death! However, her statements and actions speak loud and clear! Please continue to pray for our government! PRAY HARD, CHURCH!
All4him the deeper one is in sin, the harder their heart is and the bigger their pride. The more glamor for them in this secular life.
We include them and us in our daily prayers for the conversion of all sinners. While we are praying, there are still those helping others butcher their unborn. But those in high places, in powerful positions……they will need not only our prayers but also a much needed admonishment. This is not JUST about praying for all sinners but its also about denying them(those committing grave sins, those in high places such as politicians who encourage the murder of the unborn etc) to receive communion, it is for the sake of their salvation and to also respect our Lord. It is a moral duty of our priests, bishops etc.
Pelosi needs (to pray) this rosary more than Obama does. Hopefully she puts it to use and has a change of heart–and soul.
PJB they say that those who never repent of their sins and continue receiving holy communion are usually the ones who are hardened of heart. Why do you suppose that there are priests who are in defiance? Or lay persons who promote same sex marriage? They feel entitled to the same things as those who love and defend what is holy. But they will do what they can to change what they consider unjust even if it means to go against God. Do you not think that they have infiltrated the church? Of course all is not lost and there is still hope for some but only time will tell but there is always justice too and consequences even for the repentant.
If people have bibles in their homes and yet still defy God, just imagine there are those who have rosary’s as a prize position yet still have more pride and hardened hearts than those who feel unworthy of such gifts.
I have a feeling Nancy won’t be praying that rosary anytime soon…
YFC—Every time the debt is increased and money spent on nonsense, my kids and their kids are being robbed . And by the way, I agree that it is sinful to make false statements about other people. Just the other day I attended a Catholic funeral and heard eulogy after eulogy praising the deceased extoling him for virtues he never had. Lie after lie. Father Karl—you must hear such dribble all the time. False statements before the Lords Altar ! But then, “Who am I to judge?”
OK Tom, on your point about the debt, I actually agree with you. Which is why it is such a crying shame that the balanced budgets and surplusses achieved under President Clinton were squandered and we were sent headlong into massive debt by the tax cuts for the rich that President Bush pushed through. Not one tax cuts, but several. Then, he engaged us in decades worth of war, at least one arena of war was without any merit whatsoever, but added immensely to our debt. Fortunately, President Obama is making good headway at reducing our national debt, and we are headed back towards balanced budgets. Hopefully, we won’t make the mistake of hiring another spend and not-tax Republican to replace him.
YFC, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL….only a progressive would make claims that Pharoh Obama is making good headway at reducing the debt. (17 Trillion in debt, $100 Trillion in unfunded liabilities) Praying for a conservative take over of government, the slashing of government spending, the mass reduction of the bureaucracy, closing of entire departments, term limits, repeal of the income tax, return to a gold standard, an audit of the Federal Reserve, a roll back of almost 100 years of progressive policies. Either its done this way, or will be done by the markets, and they have no mercy
Well, obviously Canisius, by even suggesting a return to a gold standard you confine growth in our country to anemic levels. Fortunately for our people, their personal wealth is not tied to an arbitrary metal. But I would just ask you, if you repeal the income tax, how will you pay for national defense? How would you fund the service on the debt that we’ve already accumulated? Would you just have us default on the debt and have an all-volunteer army where citizens bring their own weapons (and airplanes, signal intel, satellites, drones)?
YFC I would replace the income tax (I should have said the current income tax code) with a flat tax or consumption taxes, either way the IRS would be greatly reduced in size and scope. YFC our wealth is now tied to a fiat currency which in history has proven that all of them fail and eventually fall to a zero value, what people who love big government don’t like about the gold standard is that they no longer have control Anemic growth?, nonsense the post war ERA before the abolishing of the Bretton woods system was some of the prosperous years in this countrys history. It was not too long after the abolishing of the Bretton woods system this country was hit with inflation rates near 20 percent., accompanied by double digist interest rates, there is nothing wrong with a partial gold standard. F
YFC, the democrat crime syndicate has created a system and cycles of dependency hooking the poor on the government checks like an addict to heroin. You party’s policies have stripped the poor of any dignity and any notion of self reliance. In end what really matter is the democrats have large and reliable voting block.
“Which is why it is such a crying shame that the balanced budgets and surplusses achieved under President Clinton” ….
Are you for real? It was the Republican Congress which made Slick Willy come kicking and screaming into a balanced budget and surplusses. What a joke….
“Fortunately, President Obama is making good headway at reducing our national debt, and we are headed back towards balanced budgets”. ..
Why are you distorting the truth? Reducing the debt? Either you are clueless or you are deliberately lying.
The Democrat party is the ‘party of death’. The Democrat party lords it over the poor to keep them down so they can have control over their lives.
The Republican party, which I disagree with on some issues, at least wants people to take responsiblity for their life and advance in life. And it is the only party which is pro-life and against the radical homofascist moverment….
Find the facts, dear Ronnie, they will set you free!
What do you know of Nanci Pelosi’s private prayer life?
Knowing how perverse Nancy Pelosi is, she could possibly treat the Rosary in the same fashion Madonna did. And, YFC, the Democrat party believes in Marxist ideas: take from the rich (the conservative ones at least), and give to the poor. It is redistribution. Obama himself has advocated for this, and it can be proven by reading it in the press. NONE of the statements I have made are sinful, or heretical; I have studied theology for over 10 years, and know what I am talking about. Almost everything I have stated in Calcatholic is public knowledge , and can be found in other sources as well. So I am not committing the sin of scandal, nor am I guilty of detraction.
Father Karl, I see that you certainly do not lack self confidence, one might even call it a lack of humility. I don’t care how many years you studied theology, you obviously didn’t study the democratic party. You are saying untrue things, and knowingly saying untrue things about other individuals is indeed a sin. I know what I am talking about too!
Fr., you are right to say what you did, even when it is difficult for someone like “your fellow catholic”. I have run into many ill informed small c catholics who put politics before Mother Church. There is no way someone who claims the true faith would promote a politician who continually trashes the Church of Christ by his promotion of abortion, homosexuality, socialism, deceit -as in Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and more-, and demise a system of health coverage so it can mandate such extremes as cloistered nuns paying for birth control. She/he is ill informed also of claiming the Clinton surplus. He was a president that reaped tax reduction from Reagan, and budget cuts that Gingrich led Congress in. And clinton being fortunate at that time being president, has the claim of a budget surplus, but it did not have anything to do with his leadership. His character was one of malice, as obama’s. We need to pray for all leaders as Christ has requested.
Anonymous, your grasp on truth, history, and reality are tenuous. As a bit of homework, I encourage you to look at graphs of federal government debt levels year by year going back to, say, the Nixon years. And while you are at it, go back and look at graphs of the stock markets during those same years. You will find that Republicans are great at increasing the debt, and prevail during times of declining markets. Democrats on the other hand, have more consistently than not prevailed during times of decreased debt, increased economic growth, and capital markets that reward this success.
Fr., you are right to say what you did, even when it is difficult for someone like “your fellow catholic”. I have run into many ill informed small c catholics who put politics before Mother Church. There is no way someone who claims the true faith would promote a politician who continually trashes the Church of Christ by his promotion of abortion, homosexuality, socialism, deceit -as in Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and more-, and demise a system of health coverage so it can mandate such extremes as cloistered nuns paying for birth control. She/he is ill informed also of claiming the Clinton surplus. He was a president that reaped tax reduction from Reagan, and budget cuts that Gingrich led Congress in. And clinton being fortunate at that time being president, has the claim of a budget surplus, but it did not have anything to do with his leadership. His character was one of malice, as obama’s. We need to pray for all leaders as Christ has requested.
Obama’s re-gift to Pelosi is unspeakable. The imagery provided by “juergensen” is most apt. Pope Francis, though, would undoubtedly bless Pelosi, probably hoping that some grace would impart to her. Most assuredly, Obama would not give away a basketball signed by an NBA player. He, and all the Democrats — you hear that “Your Fellow Catholic”? — are execrable in their disdain for Faith, for the supernatural grace of God. No logic can ever explain how someone can say that they are a “practicing Catholic” and yet support, nay, demand, pubilc funding for abortions, or homosexual marriage. Democrats lack shame at any level. That Party’s leadership thinks/worships/prays only about power, which raises interesting issues of idolatory. Obama lusts after the photo-op with Pope Francis; certainly the President holds no respect for Catholicism, except as a forum for votes (which, God forbid, were freely provided thanks to our fearless USCCB and many, many clergy and Catholic laity that embrace the “seemless garment” of the late Cardinal Bernardin). Yet, and notwithstanding head-of-state coridalities, the Holy Father seemed to bring a sense of moral certainty and direction, so sadly lacking in the Al Smith dinner with Cardinal Yuck-It-Up and the Abortionist in Chief acting like BFF. Still, Saul was knocked off of his donkey by God, so anything can happen, if it is His will. Pray for Pelosi’s conversion.
Yes St. Christopher I hear you. I hear you making ridiculous and completely unsubstantiated accusations against “all catholics”.
How is what St. Christopher said a disparagement against “all Catholics?”
Sorry my bad, I meant “all democrats”. I wish CCD had the ability to edit posts.
Me too!
Considering that the democrat party is owned entirely by the abortion lobby St Christopher is very close to the mark
Not to cast personal aspersions against certain individuals who shall remain nameless but as an overall blanket assessment of a party whose platform includes such heinous sins as legal and unrestricted abortion, same-sex so-called marriage and unfettered genetic engineering to name but a few of their more passionate beliefs, it is my contention, St. Christopher, that as a whole this political party is over-the-top, certifiably, unequivocally and using the history and ethics of mankind in general as a measure of my comparison, not quite sane and that you, by trying to reason with or in anyway use intelligent and sound arguments meant to open their eyes to truth is like trying to convince Hitler that all men are equal in the eyes of God and under the law. Whadyathink? It’s my contention that only the Holy Spirit can reach them now. There but for the Grace of God go I ! Lent is a time of reflection and repentence. Let’s hope those dwelling in such darkness will be open to God’s mercy and healing. Mary, pray for us!
Obama is the most anti-Catholic, pro-abortion President in the history of the United States of America!
Yes he is John. They say not to cast thy pearls unto swine. Our Pope is humble and kind that he didn’t consider that. But our holy Pope’s efforts will not go in vein, someone else who is open to those pearls will receive. Obama just passed up an opportunity to be open to salvation, but yet again has been led by his political pride. At least he didn’t throw away the rosary. I’m grateful for that! Hopefully Pelosi has someone close to her that might inherit the rosary sometime in the future.
I have a feeling this won’t be last story we’ll hear about this rosary.
Pope Francis gave the greatest gift to President B.H. Obama with the photograph shown in this article. Like Cardinal Dolan helped out with his reelection with a single photo, Pope Francis image now helps retain the Senate for pro-abortion Commies, so they can appoint more abortion And pro-Homosexual Federal Judges.
Giving the rosary to Pelosi serves to indicate that the Democratic house has support in the Vatican. Obama, a Freemason (Google it), understands symbols very well.
You have missed the positive aspect of this gift! Nancy may start praying the Holy Rosary, now that’s a plus!!
It was seemingly disingenuous of Pope Francis to give a rosary to Obama. The Pope had to know that Obama is anti-Catholic and would not appreciate not really want a rosary and would not know what to do with it.
A rosary is not a fashion accessory nor a good luck charm nor a souvenir!
For Obama to announce that he gave the rosary to the rabidly pro-abort Pelosi was a way of slapping the Pope and publicly insulting the Catholic Faith.
So what would you all have expected Obama to do with the Rosary? He is not Catholic. It would sit in a drawer somewhere collecting dust; or maybe his kids would have played with it as costume jewelry until the dog got a hold of it. The pope blessed it – great. But that doesn’t make it a holy relic. Maybe it has some intrinsic value – what’s it made of? Would you rather he sold it on e-Bay? Maybe he should have given it to Putin in exchange for Crimea? No . . . he gave it to a Catholic he knows well and probably sees every day. I’m sure it never crossed his mind to consider if she was a good enough Catholic to be worthy of such a great and precious gift. Please. She is his friend and he thought she would appreciate it; I think it was a very nice gesture – a very Christian thing to do, in my opinion. Rant and rave about nothing.
Presidents aren’t allowed to keep gifts beyond nominal monetary value ($375), so most likely, it would have eventually ended up in his presidential library, or in storage at the National Archives, and taken out for an exhibit now and then.
The rosary itself probably isn’t valuable enough to warrant accounting by the General Services Administration, but the Pope’s blessing might actually translate to a quantitative value that would.
So re-gifting it accomplishes two objectives:
1. Giving it to someone who is Catholic and might appreciate it. (You can hardly expect Obama to consult Cardinal Burke about who is Catholic enough, given that the Cardinal said voting for Obama was a sin).
2. It avoids the hazard of appraising the Pope’s blessing of religious objects using in the same manner used for sports memorabilia.
Does anyone know why Francis would give a rosary to B.H. Obama? Did he give it to him with the message that he deliver it to Nancy Pelosi? Lots of unanswered questions. GRATIAS surely hit the nail on the head when she comments on Cardinal Dolan putting his stamp of approval on Barack Obama at the Al Smith dinner. Catholics took that message/photos and ran with it to the voting booth. And now we have Barack Obama, once again, getting the stamp of approval from Francis. Doesn’t anyone get it? This pro abortion president (and proud of it) does everything in his power to mock the Catholic Church and all it stands for -and the Pope and Cardinal Dolan play into his hands. Jesus, Mary and Joseph and good St. Anne help us. Barack Obama does not understand niceness. He is a community organizer from Chicago – schooled by Bill Ayers – and these are the rules he plays by.
Pelosi will pray the rosary when pigs fly, Obama will repent of his destruction of this nation when God strikes him down and brainwashed Democrats and RINOS wake up and smell the coffee. CINOS like YFC are responsible for this train wreck of a so-called “Government”. If you had voted your brains instead of your “hopes” the second time that this deeply flawed man had run for office, an office that he is incompetent to hold, we would not be in the fix that we are in. We are the laughing-stock of the world because of his ineptness. Our enemies thumb their noses at us. I and many others have shed our blood for this country and these fools are throwing it all away.
And Nancy said WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS?
Margaret Sanger supported birth control but opposed abortion….now Peolsi gets an award named for Sanger for supporting abortion at the same time she gets a rosary blessed by Pope Francis so she can…….I have to stop, I’m too confused!
Margaret Sanger supported and furthered the cause of abortion, contraception, and also eugenics.
(Some people are trying to change her evil history.)
She has been credited with the founding of Planned Parenthood.
These are innocents – that she has helped to kill.
“ENDOWMENT for HUMAN DEVELOPMENT”
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=44
Charity to Democrats is giving our money to their causes. Charity to Conservatives is giving our money to causes we care about.
Ummm, no. Giving to democrats is a political action, not a charitable one. Giving to republicans is also a political action, not a charitable one. And, by the way, if you think that giving money to conservative candidates is the same as giving to causes you care about, you might not want to see sausage making in action. None of your money goes to causes you care about, whether you give to republicans or democrats. That’s just not how it rolls.
And, by the way, if you are deducting these political donations as charitable donations on your taxes, you are violating the law, regardless of which party you are donating to.
YFC, no human organization is perfect. No human society is perfect.
We must do our best in voting, – – – even if it means voting for the lessor of the evils. If you expect human perfection, you are mistaken.
Let us not forget that the Democratic National Platform includes support for Abortion, and same-sex marriage. (And this denotes their goals.)
We must review the public voting records of all incumbents, and their public words and actions, and the public words and actions of all new candidates.
wrong. The Democratic platform does not support abortion. It supports the right of the mother to CHOOSE whether or not to abort. There is an enormous difference between the two. Please do not confuse them. With greater choice and greater freedom, greater responsibility ensues. Please refer yourself to the garden of eden, in which God himself offered the choice of fruits.
He did not offer a choice of fruits. They were forbidden to eat of the tree in the middle of the garden. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad. God did not render it impossible to them to defy His command. God does not offer people the choice of abortion. He forbids it. Making abortion illegal does not remove a person’s ability to choose abortion. It might make it more difficult and it might make the consequences for those who choose it even more unpleasant. The hope is that it will dissuade people from committing this horrendous wrong. (Killing someone is a great burden that some people have to live with-police officers, soldiers. Killing one’s own child is a crushing burden and has severe physical, mental, emotional and spiritual consequences.)
The DEMOCRATIC Platform clearly supports the ability to MURDER an unborn child. This is clearly abortion.
There is no difference.
It supports murdering one INNOCENT person for the convenience of another.
It supports the MURDER and TORTURE of the most innocent.
TORTURE because babies are dismembered or chemically burned in the process. At 8 weeks and 2 days the baby can feel pain; responds to reflexive movement. Touching the embryo elicits squinting, jaw movement, grasping motions, and toe pointing.
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=47
At 9 weeks and 3 days – ” The fetus can also grasp an object, move the head forward and back, open and close the jaw, move the tongue, sigh, and stretch.
Nerve receptors in the face, the palms of the hands, and the soles of the feet can sense light touch.
In response to a light touch on the sole of the foot, the fetus will bend the hip and knee and may curl the toes. ”
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=53
This is non-religious scientific information.
The DEMOCRATIC PARTY is the PARTY of DEATH, and is barbarian. It supports the biggest civil rights violation known to man. – Over 54 MILLION innocents murdered in the USA alone.
YFC don’t try and lie to us,…but your words betray,,, your political party supports the right for a woman to murder her child and no such right exists if you are Catholic… which you have proven you are not…just by that statement alone
A Rosary is holy. it is a sacramental of our Church! A Rosary blessed by a Pope is especially holy! A gift to the President of the United States should not be given away, even if it is from a leader of a great world religion that he does not believe in. All gifts to our President should be kept in a special place, with special regard for them! Obviously, President Obama did not have much regard for this holy gift of Pope Francis! Does he not have a special place in the White House, for all of these special gifts given to him, as President? Does he just thoughtlessly dispose of them all?
Obama does not care about anything Catholic or even Christian. He had merely hoped to use the Pope to boost his sagging popularity polls.
In fact, Obama does not care about the Bible either.
He has twisted and made fun of the Old & New Testament, especially JESUS’s words on the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5:2-11).
In Obama’s own words: – – – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnmS_vULPxw
Linda Maria you are correct it is a sacramental and hopefully one that will keep evil spirits away from Pelozi so God’s graces will be embraced to move her heart in the right direction. Hopefully she will be open to God’s graces. Only time will tell.
“Dana” and “Your Fellow Catholic”: No practicing Catholic, or morally upright person, can be a member of the Democratic Party. As you said, Dana, that Party is drenched in blood, and exists not for the good of American people, but for power alone. Certainly, there are many, many “Catholic” apologists saying this and that about the “good things” that the D Party does, but, in truth, this is only snow over manure (using the polite term here). Professor Kmiec and Cardinal Dolan (and his ilk) are closely aligned in their delights over the continued election of Obama, the Democratically-controlled Senate, and all Liberals. Instead of calling out the sin of the D Party, many of our good bishops are focused on immigration, as if this is the holy grail of salvation. Look at how that coward, Bishop Jugis, threw good Sister Jane Dominic Laurel for accurately teaching about homosexuality as a speaker at a “Catholic” high school in NC, falling all over himself (in abstentia from a hot meeting with pro-homosexual parents) to apologize; the bishop will be loved by the D Party. Compare this to the brave Bishop Paprocki, who directed that Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) not be given communion, per Canon 915. Too bad that Washington, DC continues to suffer under Cardinal Wuerl, who refuses to withhold communion for anybody (except, perhaps, for anyone that says that they are Traditionalist, or that kneel before receiving). A chief benefactor of the Democratic Party is Planned Parenthood, and many pro-homosexual sexual rights groups. The Holy Ghost, indeed, or our Blessed Mother, may be the only way to shift America away from the steep moral erosion caused by the behavior of today’s Democratic Party.
I wonder what Obama’s gift to Pope Francis was.
Just looked it up from the Parade, March 27th:
After their discussion, the two exchanged gifts. “I bring greetings from my family. The last time I came here to meet your predecessor I was able to bring my wife and children,” President Obama said as he presented a custom-made seed chest made of leather and reclaimed wood from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore with a medley of fruit and vegetable seeds that are also used in the White House garden.
“Each one has a different seed in it,” Obama said, describing the seeds. “The box is made from timber from the first cathedral to open in the United States, in Baltimore.”
In return, Pope Francis gave the president two medallion and a copy of his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel, “for when you are bored.”
“You know, I actually will probably read this when I’m in the Oval Office,” Obama replied, “when I am deeply frustrated and I am sure it will give me strength and will calm me down.” To which the pope responded, “I hope.”
Don’t believe a word that Obama says.
He does not even adhere to his Oath of Office – regarding upholding the US Constitution.
YFC’s name should be Your FORMER Catholic, as most of his points are very liberal, uncharitable, and basically ad hominum attacks on those with whom he disagrees.
Pilar, I just point out facts. If you can’t handle the facts, then don’t read my comments. I know it is difficult to realize that sometimes, and in a few areas, your fellow catholics are not in agreement about certain things. I know that some people believe that all people catholic should believe all things exactly the same, including whether the President is a good one or a bad one. But we don’t. We have different opinions, as is apparent when you look at who voted for him. I just find it amazing that certain catholic, well represented on this website, think that it is ok to mangle facts to substantiate their opinions. If you think it is ok to mangle facts, then you belong to a different catholic church than do I.
YFC – your facts are not Catholic. If you are a Catholic at all you are a heretic and schismatic – per Church definition (CCC 2089).
Your support of MORTAL SIN – homosexual ACTS – is an abomination.
YFC, I would like to know why you want to send those with same sex attraction to Hell by supporting the MORTAL SIN of SODOMY ?
The rest of us want those with SSA to go to Heaven.
Pilar you are correct.