The following comes from an Apr. 15 story on Breitbart.com.
The White House has announced that John Podesta, President Obama’s current Counselor, will lead his delegation to the Holy See for the canonization Mass of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on April 27.
Podesta will head the delegation which will also include Rep. Xavier Becerra, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and Katie Beirne Fallon, Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs.
Podesta is the founder and chairman of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank funded by wealthy liberal supporters such as George Soros, Peter B. Lewis, Steve Bing, and Herb and Marion Sandler. Podesta eventually turned CAP into the Democrat Party’s policy and politics center.
Podesta served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff from 1998 to 2001 and chaired Obama’s transition team in 2008, ensuring that approximately one-third of CAP staff became members of the Obama administration.
Barack Obama has actively campaigned for Planned Parenthood, even to the extent of asking God to bless the abortion industry giant at its annual gala last year.
As Breitbart News reported in December, a panel discussion sponsored by CAP came to the conclusion that Christian conservatives use religion as a justification for discriminatory behavior, particularly in the area of abortion rights and same-sex marriage.
Sally Steenland, director of CAP’s Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative, said, “It sets up a false equation of ‘my religious liberty versus same-sex marriage, reproductive rights’–as if those two are inherently opposed and you’ve got to choose one versus the other. And we, as we’ll talk about later in the panel, know that’s not the case.”
Becerra is rated 100% by pro-abortion rights organization NARAL, and voted against a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in 2004. He is rated 100% by the Human Rights Campaign, an LBGT agenda organization, for his pro-gay stance.
According to Vogue, Fallon was a leading strategist in the effort to gather political support for the HHS mandate, the rule in ObamaCare that requires most employers to provide free contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs to their employees through health insurance plans.
Fallon said in 2012 that she knew the Republicans would “overplay their hand” on birth control. As staff director of the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center, she told her boss at the time, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), “We shouldn’t overcomplicate things. We should just put out the simple message that the Republicans are trying to take away birth control….”
To read the entire story, click here.
Just a thought:
As the Obama administration has just signed a bill (which I support) to refuse to allow an Iranian delegate to the UN to enter US territory because he participated in the raid on our embassy in the 1970s, maybe the Vatican could refuse to admit US delegates who abet the murder of infants and the destruction of marriage? Obama’s people have killed more American citizens than Iran has (yet).
Excellent thought Tom Byrne, that is a very good point. I wonder if these individuals who have aided and abetted in the murder of infants and the destruction of marriage realize that when they enter as delegates to the Holy See without the sorrow and repentance of prodigal sons or daughters that they are in essence arriving as modern day Judases to once again betray Jesus with a kiss. Without a true conversion perhaps it would be better had they never been selected as delegates and even better had they not ever betrayed Jesus to begin with. Let us pray that these individuals become infused with a holy and enlightening wisdom that is given by the Holy Spirit in order to gain a much deeper understanding and contrite sorrow for ever having offended God. Like Paul on the road to Damascus with a cooperation from the grace of God there can be the greatest conversions of the most hardened hearts who are still choosing to persecute Christ.
Acts 22: 6 And it came to pass, as I was going, and drawing nigh to Damascus at midday, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light: [7] And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [8] And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. [9] And they that were with me, saw indeed the light, but they heard not the voice of him that spoke with me. [10] And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me: Arise, and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things that thou must do.” Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
Catherine,
Saul for all his intentions was trying to serve God, when God told him to change his ways. It is very doubtful that those Demoncrats are at all interestested in serving God unless God agreed to become a Demoncrat!
They, with the aid of some in the Vatican, are making a mockery of the Church’s position on abortion, and this should NOT be allowed to happen!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerikca!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Kenneth M. Fisher,
I understand what you are trying to communicate. Also, who is teaching the teachers of today as well as these political leaders? Take for an example, I often wondered about the encouragement and spiritual direction that a Ted Kennedy received during his life on earth when he felt so bolstered to assault the teachings of the Catholic Church. Yet Ted Kennedy and those who assisted him by their silence or perhaps by their bad counsel still somehow have convinced themselves that they too were and are truly serving God. Also, due to a lack of proper catechesis many have been unknowingly misled and some in authority have knowingly and deliberately rejected Church teaching in order to accommodate their own compromised consciences. You are right Kenneth, promoting sin and evil by the denial of the truth is never serving God, it is mocking God. While it is true and may God have mercy on his departed soul, Ted Kennedy used his free will to make many political and personal choices that offended God during his life but how many in authority were spiritually negligent by politically affirming Ted’s choices and many of the same destructive political forces that have diabolically disoriented our nation? Today we see that what is evil is called a good and what is good is now called an evil. Couldn’t these deniers of God’s Laws be called the modern day thieves of God’s revealed truth? As you well know, no one gets away with anything while living on this earth. God sees everything we do.
continued from April 21, 2014 at 9:14 am
“In August of 1917 Our Lady of Fatima told the children, “pray much and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell because there is no one to make sacrifices for them.” As to the kinds of sacrifices Our Lady was asking, she revealed to Sr. Lucia on one occasion: “The good Lord is allowing Himself to be appeased . . . but He Himself complains most bitterly and sorrowfully about the small number of souls in His grace who are willing to renounce whatever the observance of His laws requires of them.”
“Many persons,” Sr. Lucia explained, “feeling that the word penance implies great austerities, and not feeling that they have the strength for great sacrifices, become discouraged and continue a life of lukewarmness and sin.” Then she said Our Lord explained to her: “The sacrifice required of every person is the fulfillment of his duties in life and the observance of My law. This is the penance that I now seek and require.”
Ray,
The president just said yesterday that even though he signed the bill he doesn’t have to obey it.
Elizabeth M.
Sorry,, nor Ray but Tom!!
Elizabeth M.
Yes, and I think Obama was aware of the possibility of the delegation not being admitted by the Vatican. That could be why he didn’t send Biden and Pelosi. If he wanted to deliver the most blatant insult possible, I mean the father of all insults, to faithful Catholics, he should have chosen them. But the outrage among Catholics would have been such that the Vatican just might have reacted by not admitting them – terrible press for Obama. Posada and the others he sent, while dissenters, are not nearly as high profile dissenters as the two I mentioned. Too few people know enough about their dissent to arouse a firestorm of protest. So, by sending them, Obama can satisfy his base, who know well who the dissenters are, and at the same time not provoke a highly undesirable reaction from Rome.
Another consideration is that if Pelosi and Biden were chosen and then refused admission at the Vatican, it would put Cardinal Wuerl in a rather awkward spot. He has a nice cozy relationship with the big time dissenters, and has stated he has no plans to censure them or take them to task in any way. Wouldn’t it look bad for him if the Vatican saw fit to do what he has refused to do all these years? That’s far less likely to happen if Podesta and the others are sent. Obama will have kept his base happy and the Cardinal can continue to cow tow to the powerful at the expense of the Gospel.
Rodney,
But where does what you just wrote leave Pope Francis?
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerikca!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Viva Cristo Rey! We are all His children.
This is yet another insult to Catholics in American. Obama has chosen people who deliberately ignore and undermine the Magisterium to represent the U.S. at this historic event.
All are CINO and their bishops have apparently done nothing (e.g., Canon 915) to correct them. It would be fair to ask the Vatican to insure that they do not receive Holy Communion during the canonization ceremony, which would certainly add to its significance for Roman Catholics.
Bob,
Dream on!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerikca!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
hope they come back with a change of heart….. just a miracle
One does not give blasphemers like them the Holy Eucharist and then hope for a miracle.
Did the Vatican invite the White House to send a delegate to the canonization Mass, or did the WH decide on its own to send delegates? In either case, the Vatican should not permit militant pro-abortionists, proponents of same-sex “marriage,” and enforcers of the Obama-care health insurance that requires that Catholic employers provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion to attend the canonization of these two holy popes.
Pope Francis must have really irked a President Obama in the audience.
Our country is a moral DISGRACE!! The Vatican should tell our President– NO!
Just an opportunity for the Culture of Death crowd to get a free trip to Rome.
For more information on Podesta and Soros, etc., please see:
“OBAMA’s COUNTERFEIT CATHOLICS”.
https://www.churchmilitant.tv/cia/02fake/
In addition to video, written documentation is provided.
It is unceasing, the attacks by the enemies of God and the Church. The present Administration only continues with insult upon insult to hammer this country with their harassment and godlessness, their attachment to the opposition to God is palpable. They would dominate the world with it. This truly is a spiritual battle we are in. The ultimate outcome is that God will triumph, but unless we do battle ourselves as the Faithful, we are doomed to failure as individuals. Our posture must be on our knees, before the Blessed Sacrament, or we will continue to be beaten down into dispair. Our God is a Great and Loving God. We must seek Him in every way to assist us in our times of uncertainty. He is our only Hope. Yes, it’s as bad as that.
Tom Byrne – You have come up with a brilliant suggestion. Let us all pray a rosary each and every day for this intention. Let us pray that everyone is paying attention to this slap at the Catholic Church once again. Where is Nancy Pelosi
and why has she not been included in this group of anti Catholics who will be paying honor to our beloved Pope John Paul II. She would be the frosting on the cake with this group.
Pelosi is too busy washing the feet of the Episcopalians. SERIOUSLY!!
I continue to be confused about my Catholic Church. Both John XXIII and John Paul II were aware of the rampant homosexuality among priests within the Vatican, extending to the Roman Curia and among the Priesthood, and the sex scandals throughout the Church (for which the Catholic Church paid billions). They took little or no action regarding these issues. John Paul II refused to deal with them. He asked Cardinal Ratzinger to investigate. The final report from the investigating commission (including the Chief Italian Magisrate, the Chief Italian Prosecutor, the Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, etc.) was presented to Pope Benedict XVI. He resigned from the papacy two days later. In the Bay Area, we and my fellow Catholic attorneys have had to deal with nests of homosexual priests and bishops. Fortunately, our new San Francisco Archbishop is starting to clean house (e.g. priests removed from office at the Berkeley Newman Center).
Actually, Bishop Barber, of the Oakland diocese, is the bishop who is starting to “clean house,” and he has removed priests from the University of California at Berkeley Newman Center. Archbishop Cordileone, of San Francisco, does not seem to do much, does he?!
We do not know exactly what Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, knew during what time frame.
However John Paul II wrote the following in 2002.
https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2002/april/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20020423_usa-cardinals_en.html
It includes but is not limited to: ” People need to know that there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for those who would harm the young. “
Rosaries and Divine Mercy Chaplets… unceasingly… perfect idea. Get it going folks!
This smells like another JUDAS to me!!!
If Obama is trying to take our religious freedoms away, does he think that he getting involved with cananoizations, this will appease the Church?
I DON’T THINK SO!!!
REAL ACTIONS speak LOUDER than words.
Elizabeth,
It will appease the Wuerl’s in the Church!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerikca!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Another thought/question? Would any of these people who are being sent to
the canonization of these two saintly men have any idea as to what will be going on and why they are there? It is mind boggling to think that these anti Catholic people could be chosen to represent the United States. There would be many Christians that President Obama could have chosen to send. What about Marco Rubio, Bobbie Jindal, Chris Smith or Michelle Bachman? Anyone of these people would better represent the Christian face of the United States than those pro abortion people who will be going to the Vatican. God help all of them. Perhaps a miracle will take place while in Rome and they will be converted.
Marco Rubio, Bobbie Jindal, Chris Smith or Michelle Bachman – I think they are all Republicans. They do not belong to the DEMOCRATIC, PARTY of DEATH.
If OBAMA can’t find any faithful Catholics who are Democrats, that really tells us something about the Democratic Party.
He is sending Catholic heretics and schismatics. It would be better if he sent Protestants.
Wonderful! Now America is sending a left wing hate group to the Vatican and we get to pay for it!
This is what happens when people vote for evil politicians. The winners get to make the decisions.
Gee, will the Vatican deny these spiritual US diplomats communion at the Canonization Mass? The Church is always telling us not to receive communion if we are conscious of serious sin, specially if someone supports abortion, including vocal support. Most church leaders say publicly that such Catholics should not present themselves at the Communion rail, etc. Here is the Vatican’s chance to deny them Communion, if that is the tactic the Vatican wants to adopt. The world will be watching. My guess is the Vatican lets this one slide and gives them communion….diplomatic reasons, not wanting any policy brouhaha to upstage two new saints. But the larger issue that will be solved is that pro-abortion Catholics can now look at the Vatican’s example for how to handle the matter. If it work’s in St. Peter’s Church, it works in our local parish. There is no Church problem with being pro-abortion and receiving the Eucharist. Case closed?
Good cause, Those who commit SACRILEGE against the Body and Blood of our Lord – will die in Hell if they do not repent.
Any Priest who knowingly participates in this sacrilege aids and abets in this sin.
Code of Canon Law: “Can. 915 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion. ”
Never ASSUME that all Priests know the public mortal sins of all people.
Those who love their sins, love the devil.
He who is in communion with the devil, can not be in communion with God.
good cause, haven’t you read the Bible ?
QUOTE: “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.” UNQUOTE
St. Paul – 1 Cor 11:27.
The REAL Presence –
https://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/holycom/denial.htm
It Is no surprise what Obama wants to do. He works for the devil so he keeps the bad guys busy
all the time. We need to pray for their conversion and the Christians that voted him into office. {twice} Shame on them!!!
Because of all the revolutions in the 60’s, there is no more sense of sin, or guilt. The idea of shame has disappeared. When the family of the leader of the Soviet Union visited Pope John XXIII in the early 60’s, we knew there would be protocol, and it was strictly followed and enforced. Today, anything goes, as long as it is vulgar and liberal. Because of freedom and liberty, anyone can do as they please, and no one can criticize them, because that would be mean and unfair. There was a Toyota commercial which stated: You asked for it, you got it! Well, with the help of the Catholic Church (the hierarchy, the priests, nuns and laity) we got it! Obama was elected TWICE to the office he now holds. We knew this mess would happen, and now it is to late to do anything about it, but pray and ask for God’s mercy.
Is anyone bothered by the canonization of popes?
There are 80 so far, so it’s nothing new, but it risks portraying canonization as a lifetime achievement award for chief administrative officials. However holy they might have been, they were honored in their lifetimes with a high degree of social status, lives of luxury, being treated as heads of state, greeting adoring crowds wherever they went. They did not live lives of thankless sacrifice, or die as martyrs. They were popular public figures. Were they really saints?
This dual one seems particularly political; it appears to be positing a continuity between the chief figure representing modernization, and the one representing a conservative backlash to it.
The problem, if the church want to maintain orthodox teaching and practices, is that nobody cares anymore. First, there probably aren’t a thousand people in the U.S. who know who is on the delegation or that there is a delegation to the Vatican. Second, of those who know there is a delegation it is likely that 99% don’t know what the members believe. Third, the country’s population, or a great majority of it, doesn’t care what the delegation believes and they agree with allowing abortion on demand. For right or wrong, it is fringe groups that get worked up over these things, I suppose myself included. But, the point is that the majority of the people who post on this site do not represent the thinking of the majority of the country. Pelosi was reelected with about 85% of the vote. Surely, in her district, she is seen as the great ecumenical person washing the feet of the immigrants with people of other faiths. (tweeting the picture, of course, erased any good she was trying to do – so it was a photo op). Fourth, the approach the church has taken on abortion and same-sex marriage has made it look like a hate group compared to its opponents. We have been out PR’ed. It will take a lot of prayer to turn things around.
Of course no one remembers the so called minor sin of decades old priest child abuse and its coverup by the Church. I’m sure most all the victims across the world of Catholic priest child abuse are just thrilled that JP2 was even considered to become a saint, let alone become one.
Hugh James, I believe this is more about canonizing Vatican 11 than canonizing saints. Francis had to lower the bar for John XXIII by requiring only one miracle and removing the role of the devil’s advocate.
Ron. the bar was removed for JP2.
Pope Pius XII has been on the list for years to be canonized. From what was just written on angelqueen,org, there were NO, ZILCH, NADA miracles attributed to the cause of Pope John XXIII. His cause was pushed onto the ceremony for Pope John Paul II. Basically it is for the canonization of Vatican II. When we read the sermons of the saints, we see how far we have diverted from the traditional Catholic faith. Also, hardly any mention is made of the sermons and writings of Pope Pius XII, as they are brushed aside, while the namby pamby un doctrinal writings of Vatican II are praised and glorified. Ave Maria Purrissima!
Vatican 2 was the best thing that ever happened to the Church. It was a step in the right direction. Jp2 and B16 did everything they could to destroy V2 along with the destruction of tens of thousands of innocent Catholic children from the enabling of predator priests, then covering up their crimes to protect them instead of the children. Why does the Catholic Church continue to condone these actions of JP2, and B16? I know why he (JP2) destroyed the multitude of innocent Catholic children’s lives, and so do/should you. It is no longer a well kept secret of the Church. The victims of these crimes have fought back and exposed it all. It goes right to the top. THE POPE, JP2 and B16.
Jim, read the title of the article. The story line is about “who” from the Obama administration is attending the event not Vatican 2. You have fallen into the trap. I do agree with you about the two being canonized but disagree about the second Vatican Council, should have never happened, and that also goes for the canonization of these two popes. Just an opinion.
Jesuita, There was a miracle attributed to Pope Saint John XXIII, but the pope can override the requirement for a second. Declarations of sainthood are considered infallible. Are you one of those people who want to be stingy with sainthood? And please stop denouncing a sacred Ecumenical Council. It is part of the teaching of the faith, and our submission is required. You belittle the faith with your denunciations of popes, saints, and councils.
Jim, a 1981 US Bishops study found that 22% of Catholics stopped attending mass due to changes in the church. Is that really “the best thing that ever happened to the Church”? In 1958 74% of US Catholic attended Sunday Mass, in 1999 it went down to 19%.
Ron, I’d be interested in seeing that study if you can dig it up for us. I have a feeling the reason most people stopped going to mass is that they see a male-dominated hierarchy and a church that they feel is not listening to their needs and lived experiences. So maybe the thing is that VII didn’t go far enough? I suspect Francis feels this way, and the synod is one way to loosen the ground for a future Ecumenical Council.
https://www.traditionalcatholicapologetics.com/novus-ordo-is-not-catholic
Ron, I read the link in its entirety. 99.9% is pure junk and is in itself anti-catholic. Much of what it espouses is against the current teachings of the Catholic Church. Most of the Free Mason stuff is bunk. If you believe this stuff, I have a bridge I want to sell you. To say that our sacraments are not valid is against the teachings of the church. To say that only the Latin mass is acceptable is against the teachings of the Church. Please stop trying to mislead people with this junk stuff. Come to the truth of the Church!
The lowest number I have found is 23%. 35-55% seems to be the range that various studies have found. Some people have jobs that keep them from attending Mass every week while others have the care of infants or elderly or sick people. Also health problems would be a factor.
Unlike Bob One, I didn’t read all the words from the link you provided. I didn’t need to. It didn’t answer my question in the slightest, and was nothing but schismatic garbage.
I get ripped to shreds on this website, but it is folks like you who want to destroy the Catholic Church from top to bottom in order to “preserve” some remnant of a Church which the Holy Spirit has seen fit to correct via ecumenical councils and popes. There is no Church untouched by Vatican II, and if the Popes during and since were heretics and if our sacraments are invalid, as you claim, then the state of our salvation is truly dire.
Yes. I can tell the JP2 and B16 child priest abuse scandal is of no concern to you.
Malachi Martin said many years ago that the Catholic Church was dying, because of the modernists. His words ARE true. Look around, churches are closing, convents, seminaries are no longer open. There are hardly any nuns left, and there is an acute shortage of priests. You have a world religion evolving which will be a pan religion of all faiths mixed up and put together. The New Testament even says there will only be a remnant left, chosen out of grace. Vatican II was a disaster! NOTHING good came out of it. It as NOT doctrinal, so it does NOT have to be accepted. The liberals hijacked the Council, so the original plans were NOT followed or discussed. Read THE RHINE FLOWS INTO THE TIBER if you do not believe me. The facts and the statistics CANNOT LIE! Ave Maria Purrissima!
The church is dying because it will not leave the 15 century.
not correct. vii is part of the magisterial teachings and must be held by the faithful.
Read the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Vatican II documents and the writings of the Popes and Saints. Vatican II is the work of the Holy Spirit. The devil always attacks the work of God. especially his great work of Mercy. Pray the Rosary daily.
Thank you, Jesuita, for not using the rose colored glasses to view the devastation of the New Springtime.
God bless.
“The Second Vatican Council was the main event in the Church in the 20th Century. In principle, it meant an end to the hostilities between the Church and modernism, which was condemned in the First Vatican Council. On the contrary: neither the world is the realm of evil and sin –these are conclusions clearly achieved in Vatican II—nor is the Church the sole refuge of good and virtue. Modernism was, most of the time, a reaction against injustices and abuses that disparaged the dignity and the rights of the person. The Vatican II Council officially acknowledged that things had changed, and captured the need for such a change in its Documents” Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga
These are the only official Documents of Vatican II.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/
If you can not find something in these docs, then V II did not say it.
Most of those who complain about V II have never read the docs, and believe whatever they see someone else write.
Even some Cardinals, Bishops and Priests, Nuns and wayward Theologians attribute things to V II that are false.
The Church has wisely given us Holy Scripture and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition”.
Reading these are the only way you will KNOW the truth, rather than accepting the mistakes – both accidental and purposeful = of Clergy, Nuns, and supposedly educated theologians.
It is a shame we can not trust our leaders, but at least the Church cared enough to give us what we need for salvation.
Exactly SANDRA !
Most complainers about V II have never even read the Documents, but merely parrot the lies of others.
It’s not V II that is the problem, it is the abandoning of catechesis by most Diocese Bishops and many Priests to encourage the reading of the Bible and CCC at home.
We should trust the Holy Spirit to enter carefully into the minds and souls of these three representatives so that when they encounter the beauty and elegance and strength o these two new saints they re-evaluate their abortion rights stance and instead discover the truth of JP II”s statement “Nothing surpasses the dignity of a human person….a human life is the concrete reality of a being that is capable of love, and of service to humanity….all human life from the moment of conception and through all subsequent states is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.”
Robert what you wrote would be ideal.
However, I’d bet that Obama’s heretical and schismatic US delegation were disappointed that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict did not give them the opportunity for photo-ops with them that could be used for anti-Catholic propaganda.
They were not seen on world-wide TV either.
https://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/vatican-issues-official-prayers-to-saints-john-xxiii-john-paul-ii/