Caroline Kennedy Denied by Vatican!
If this isn’t sweet justice, then I don’t know what is – but I sure do love Happy Endings!
The Vatican has blocked the appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador, according to reports.
Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.
Mr Obama was reportedly seeking to reward John F Kennedy’s daughter, who publicly gave her support to his election bid. She had been poised to replace Hillary Clinton as New York senator, but dropped out amid criticism that she lacked enough experience for the job.
I guess the Pope, like you know, like figured out, that like Caroline, and like the rest of you know, the Kennedy clan, was like you know, anything but like pro-life or like remotely Catholic you know.
The Italian paper said that the Vatican strongly disapproved of Mr Obama’s support for abortion and stem cell research. The impasse over the ambassadorial appointment threatens to cloud his meeting with the Pope during a G8 summit in Itay in July.
Ms Kennedy, 53, has said that she supports abortion. Raymond Flynn, a former US ambassador to the Vatican, said earlier this week that Ms Kennedy would be a poor choice.
“It’s imperative, it’s essential that the person who represents us to the Holy See be a person who has pro-life values. I hope the President doesn’t make that mistake,” he told the Boston Herald. “She said she was pro-choice. I don’t assume she’s going to change that, which is problematic.”
The White House refused to comment.
Good for the Pope and the Catholic Church. You may not agree with the pro-life stance, but a religion shouldn’t have to kowtow to a political agenda or ideology. As I learned in International Business in undergrad – if you are conducting business or negotiating with a business overseas you should know their culture and respect it – same goes for the Catholic Church.
I’m not sure if Obama and his Administration are just that incompetent or just deliberately doing this to demean the Catholic religion. I tend to lean towards the latter – which is why I’m glad the Pope is holding his own.
Since this report is coming out of the U.K. I’m curious to know whether or not the rest of the MSM will report on this, besides Fox News.
Pope Warns of “Godlessness” During Good Friday Mass
The Pope’s latest sentiments and words help me to know that I am not alone in my assumptions that secularism is on the rise in the West, especially in the United States, since I am not privy to the events currently going on in Europe. However, I certainly suspect the same thing exists there as well – if not more so than in the U.S.
I couldn’t understand how people could not see through the rhetoric, lies, and falsehoods of Obama during last year’s election. It was obvious through is connections, relationships and political history that he was not a decent, caring individual – and I feared for our country and the future if he did get into office. On the opposite end you had a war hero, and a woman of great integrity and faith, who came from humble beginnings and worked her way up without the help of the “establishment.”
Religion is under attack, as Pete recently posted. Those who practice what they preach and have a pure heart were mocked and ridiculed last year by the media and those on the left. Their fear-mongering and propaganda really affected various people, sucked in by the fraudulent reporting. Mormon churches were vandalized and an elderly woman was beaten because of proposition 8 disagreements. Nevermind the fact that the reason Prop. 8 did not go the way the gay activists wanted in California, had more to do with the minority vote (blacks and hispanics voting for Obama), than the Mormons or any other religions faction. Minorities are incredibly religious and socially conservative on the whole. Barack Obama, himself, has stated that he does not believe in homosexual marriage, however, gay protesters violently attacked those of faith and their places of worship.
I have never seen such hatred and absolute vileness come out of people. It’s as if the “light” scares them. Truth does hurt, and those who represent values that these people have either been made to fear based on false reports, propaganda or through their own fallacious assumptions, can only act out through hate and disgust – because they may find some truth in themselves that they have not been able to come to grips with. It’s incredibly sad and pathetic how hollow and superficial progressives have become. It must be extremely lonely having a hole in your heart that wide to not know what it’s like to have faith or to know a God of some sort.
Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a ‘desert of godlessness’.
He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was led out to be crucified.
‘Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’, he added.
‘We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,’ said the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.
‘Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode.
‘Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’
The German-born Pope, who turns 82 later this month, prayed Christians would respond by growing in faith.
‘May we never question or mock serious things in life like a cynic,’ he added. He also condemned the oppression of women, saying there were ‘many societies in the world where women fail to receive a fair deal.’
‘Christ must be weeping for them,’ he said.
It makes me think that the Pope may have been watching our elections in the states…among other incidents in the world.
