Thanks for pointing out the double-standard, I hadn’t caught that!
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As for the title of the post, I find it kind of like, “Do fish swim?”

If you’re only asking the question at this stage, you’re a bit slow on the uptake! Still Obama’s administration is probably yet a little behind the Irish Govt which decided to close the State’s embassy to the Holy See the week before last - and then insult people’s intelligence by telling them it’s to save money! (The Catholic Church was the first to open a full diplomatic mission in Ireland, long before it (26 of 32 counties) had full independence from the UK. The foreign Minister has also said the Govt would not be inviting the Pope to Ireland for the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Ireland next year - the equivalent of a Cold War stance, I’d say.

Add to this that Obama has shed the mask of impartiality about gay marriage. He and his friends oppose DOMA. Politically, Obama is a Gypsy Rose Lee. He progressively sheds his conservative garments the closer he gets to the next election. His “Catholic"allies in the Democratic Party assure him that Catholics really don’t care about all “that stuff.”

In Obamacare, Obama is demanding an “Oath of Supremacy” for the abomination of abominations, abortion, (human sacrifice), contraceptives,and everything to obliterate conscience, and free will. This will eradicate the human person’s dignity and reverence for God and establish the worship of the devil. In Rural Councils Executive Order 13575, Obama seized the power to seize private property. Obama will be taking Catholic farmland at will. Hitler did not happen overnight and Obama will not happen overnight. Everything atheistic is anti-Catholic. Obama has stripped God from our culture. Taxation without representation. Obama has said that the citizens are free to worship God and practice their Faith, but not in America, not with U.S. tax dollars and not by U.S. citizens…leaving Catholics suspended between heaven and earth, with no one but God to defend us.

Statism has increased its powwer in opposition to the church. Since Henry VIII and the French Revolution the state enriched itself by confiscating church wealth. And the welfare state has expanded by appropriating institutions developed by the church such as education, hospitals, and charity for the poor. They do not do a better job and so the rivalry is accentuated. History is our friend in understanding. I see the conflation of 25 years of sex abuse by the Boston Globe as a power grab by the secularist media/government complex.

It may already be too late. Catholic Charities of Southern Illinois just cut its ties with the Church so that it could place children for adoption with same-sex couples. I have no idea how “Catholic” CCS was, but I know how Catholic it is now! NONE. I am sure that for those people, it seemed like a terrible struggle to decide between keeping their jobs and clients (and taking away social workers from needy children is a terrible thing in their already troubled lives) and doing what is, after all, the law in their state. But from afar it’s not a terrible struggle after all. It is a clear directive from the government: Do what we say, or do what your religion teaches. They picked the government. The choice is only going to get clearer in the coming months. It didn’t happen overnight but it’s happened, and we have to stop wringing our hands and start dealing with it. It’s becoming more and more blatant and we have to stand up now and say “NO.”

Cardinal Stafford’s prophesy is taking place, little by little. See particularly when he says that we would weep angry tears of betrayal.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/document.php?n=780

Thank-you for having the guts to put this in print. 
I am so ashamed of my fellow “Catholics” who refused to see all of the red flags before he was ever elected - and voted for him because they had an irrational (in my opinion) hatred of President Bush - who wasn’t even a candidate!! 
No one who gets LIFE wrong (pro-abortion) can get much of anything else right.

This article’s opening line is “A majority of Catholics voted for Barack Obama” While I know this is true, it just boggles my mind. His stand on the 5 non-negotiable issues was clear and his appointments and actions entirely consistent with what he promised to do. The only conclusion is that many Catholics including many Bishops and Priests just don’t care about these issues. After all, he supports minimum wage legislation; I guess that makes him OK. And now we have the culture of death Obamacare law which the church leadership helped put into place.

Frank

You cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat.

Now you see, my problem comes with your first sentence. How do real Catholics vote for a pro-abortion person?! He was the most liberal Democrat in the Senate for the entire 2 days he served there. His first act as “president” was to sign an abortion decree. What about murder don’t you Democrats get?????

Anti-Catholic?  Obama??
You better believe it!  And despicable to boot. Mark my words, this man is not all that he appears to be. There is much we don’t know.
Wise up!

president obama is going to win re election unless newt gingrich wins the republican nomination. Newt is the only one who is smart enough to beat that guy.

I agree with Alice…“this man [Obama]is not all that he appears to be”
I have just met an a lady from Argentina, in my neighborhood. Baptized in the Catholic church, left it for the Baptist. You should hear all she has to say when the government has control of religion,[the Catholic church in Argentina], health and everything in their life. She has been in the US since 1962 and loves the U.S. but she sees what is happening and is afraid for us.  She has been through it and knows. The Catholic Church has always leaned toward the Democrats…why?...because Democrats tell people they will help by ‘giving’ to you, whereas the other Party wants to help you to help yourself. The old adage “don’t feed a man a fish dinner, give him a fishing pole and let him catch his own and he will have so much more” [something to that effect] Didn’t Jesus say to the Apostle “cast out your nets”. The Apostle did and had so much more to eat. Obama is heading for socialism, no doubt in my mind. The Catholic Church will also be controlled by the government if we are not careful, Obama has started…....

No, it’s not anti-Catholic, it’s Pro-Abortion, Pro-War, Pro-Non-Marriage and Pro-Death. It just so happens that we are opposed to all of that and get the backlash. The administration loves Catholics who don’t believe in any of that Catholic stuff.

Kind of hard to believe you’re just realizing all this.  Acorn O laid it all out for you before you voted him.  What were you expecting?

@Lynda: I say take the International Eucharistic Congress OUT of Ireland. Without the Vicar of Christ, Pope Benedeict XVI, why would Ireland be a suitable place to celebrate the Eucharist?

There are other organizations just like Acorn. Obama won’t shut them down but he will try to shut down a Catholic Charitable Org. {this is how he gets “control”}

Some of these responses bring to mind the article the HUFFPOST had that stated about 80% of American Catholics are very faithful but there is a large portion of these faithful Catholics that don’t listen to or agree with the Catholic church when it comes to birth control and same sex marriages. I scratched my head when I was reading the article. If you don’t follow church teachings then how can you be a faithful Catholic? Do they think just because the person shows up in church on Sunday that they are faithful Catholics?

I wonder what this demigod’s greeting will be? Rome had “Hail Ceaser” and we know too well Hitler’s. I guess we haven’t learned from history because it is being repeated here in the United States.

There was a line in a movie that rang so true about when governments say they are for peace and human rights they are usually the worst violaters of it.

I know a lot of catholics who put Obama in the white house, its a shame that they didn’t put the baby in the womb first.  Obama has backed up every thing that I was taught was wrong according to the teaching of the catholic church.

The occupant of the oval office is a MUSLIM, read his book, he & his Communist mentors are hell bent on destroying the Catholic Church & this Country !  Any Catholic that voted for the party-of-death automatically excommunicated themselves according to the CCC & the Church Canons !  Sebelius, Pelosi, Kerry etc., when our Cardinals & Bishops finally, if ever, get the courage to excommunicate these heretics, maybe then we lowly Catholics in the pews will have a good example to follow.

All Catholics had to do was examine their conscience, look at the anti-life record of obama and they would have not voted for him IF THEY WERE GOOD CATHOLICS whose soul purpose was to put God in the forefront of their lives and their eternal life.

Obamanism doesn’t have any place for God in it’s world. As for Obama, he makes it very clear that he is anti-God; anti-Catholic; anti-Christian & anti-American. So far the only promise that he has kept is for change & change is what we got. Those so-called “catholics” (including clergy) that supported him knowing his anti-life sentiments will have to answer to Jesus & the USCCB which is an insult to the Church as they are afraid to take action against the so-called “catholic” politicians that support the evil that Obamnism is helping to spread.  The NCR editors once said that Obama wasn’t evil just because he didn’t dress or act the part, but this man of hate has proven the NCR wrong.  May God have mercy on us all.  +JMJ+

As for the title of this post, I also would like to propose, “Is the Pope Catholic?”

You cannot be a Catholic and Democrat…, and Republican. There is no hope!!

C’mon. Clearly the Democrat Party is Anti-Catholic. Obama had both houses of congress, has the Press, and doesn’t seem to care about getting re-elected, so he’s going to try to get as much of the Liberal agenda done as he can. I think more Catholics don’t vote Republican because they can’t take all the persecution from the Left. Republicans, conservatives, and conservative Christians are all persecuted in this culture.

The majority of Catholics that voted for Obama properly excommunicated themselves. They are no authority for valid Catholic opinions. Anyone that tries to force the Catholic Church to ordain women is definitely anti-Catholic.  Hopefully, Obama may drive the excommunicated Catholics back to the practice of their faith to defeat him in the next election.

Our president is the same person that blocked legislation in Illinois to protect babies that had been born as a result of a botched abortion.

This is about as anti-life as you can possibly be. This translates to anti-catholic.

The general stream of policy decisions and appointments all indicate a clear anti-catholic position and agenda.

I have followed the discussion throughout the day. Obama is not an anti-catholic per se. He is a Marxist committed to creating a marxist society over any and all opposition. So he is not against Catholics because they are Catholics; he is against Catholics and all other groups who stand in his way. So he and his supports to not have to admit to anti-Catholicism.

My problem is not as much with Obama as with those who votged for him and his drive to a secularist, Marxist society where the elite take great satisfaction in knowing they are right in ruling the masses. Why can not democrats and liberals see this? Why can not those who voted for him see that this is what he (along with Pelosi, Kerry, Biden, etc etc) promised and what he is delivering.

He has been honest. Those who voted in liberals of both parties are the useful idiots. And they are so stupid they still do not see what is happening. We as a nation are reaping what we started sowing in 1932.

Big government is bad government. It does not matter if it is Democrat or republican.

Frank

Who wrote Roe vs Wade and who fought it? Republican Harry Blackmum elected by Nixon wrote it. Who fought it? Democrat Byron White. Though it may be true that there is this anti Catholic view now, though there are not solid facts, I do know the solid facts of where the law originated. I do wonder why this fact is not more public knowledge.Why is it thta the Republican Party insists they are the only ones who can fix what they did wrong in the first place? Guilt?

I encourage you to read the anti Catholic feelings that Republicans have as quoted in culture kitchen.

http://www.culturekitchen.com/mole333/blog/the_republican_catholic_problem

Should we not be surprised, given that George Soros heavily funded his campaign?  He has been working to destroy the Church with disunity for quite some time.  I found it so disheartening during the campaign that many Catholics didn’t see what was happening;  they didn’t connect the dots.

I recently read only 20 to 30% of catholics regularly attend mass and half virtually never atternd mass, those are the ones who voted for Obama and probably will again, I don’t know any practicing catholics who voted for Obama but I have family members who did and the never attend mass. Catholic in name only but still call themselves catholic…

Read about the Koch Brothers support, and Soros supported H Clinton.

The Republican based government has always been anti-Catholic, anti-justice and Did not want either if the Kennedys in office. If that who you support. Does anyone here care about the hungry not only in our country but in other countries? I can hardly stand to read the blindness that is going on. I wish the National Catholic Registry would do an honest in-depth research to the cause of Roe VS Wade, Which government party wrote it. How many abortions happen when there is help ava vs no help for the women and which party throughout the years have supported Catholics. ( not just individual causes but the faith) It is a challenge I put forth and I want facts not opinion. This would help me more than anything else.

Neither of the parties is Catholic, what do you expect? All we can do is our best to further human dignity. Both parties have changed platforms over the years, it is silly to think that a previous platform reflects current politics. Mary, hunger is not a root cause for abortion, please don’t make the mistake of thinking it is. Even the poorest people today have far more to eat, whatever anyone tries to tell you about “food deserts” etc. than people had in, say, the 1930s. Yes, we should all fight hunger. But poor women used to have babies and now they kill them. The difference isn’t hunger, it’s the availability safe (for the mother) and cheap (relatively) abortion, the public acceptance of abortion as a way to “solve” a “problem” pregnancy,  the lack of support for adoption, and the overall breakdown of the family. Sociological studies show that poor people tend to have little or no family support. Government programs can’t change that. The FACT that the Democrats were once more supportive of Catholic ideas and principles does not change the FACT that they are no longer supportive of them, and the FACT that it was a deliberate choice on the part of the Democratic party leadership to make that change. We have to deal with facts, not the way we wish things were—and that also means dealing with the fact that the Republican party, though more pro-life than the Democrats, does not support a great many Catholic ideas and principles. We have to work with what we’ve got, and a party that is all for killing millions of unborn children using taxpayer money and expanding the role of central government is NOT one that supports the dignity of the human person or subsidiarity.

One key issue which has allowed so-called Catholic politicians to run amock is the lack of a strong voice from the USCCB.  For many election cycles the issue statements were broad.  But the the policies of this administration, the hierarchy has finally had enough.  I refer the the NCR article of November 15.  “There are signs that the growing threats posed to the religious freedom of Catholic institutions could emerge as an election-year issue, and Archbishop Chaput is fine with that. “It should be an election-year issue,” he said, “because our identity as Catholics is under threat.”  The article is beginning to get some traction in local parishes.

I know hunger is not the issue, but studies done have shown that when there is health care to conver the cost of labor/delivery, and after care in raising a child, then there is less abortion. I am totally against abortion. I hate it. But, I do think the Republican Party is using this issue to get votes while they destroy every other justice issue in the country. Yes we may have no more abortion, but we will all be living on the streets with them. Better that than murder. Where do they stand in all life issues as in the death penalty?? War?? I really think a clean house is in order. I think the people need to be allowed to speak. I think big company funded campaigns that the supreme court allowed making a company equal to a person is wrong. I think lobbyist should be taken out of washington and that government should be more for the people not for the company. What a ramble on! I just hate to see all the hate in the papers now. I wish we could work together. Thank you for the comment.

Mary: I was born 1927. Coming from NYS being Catholic was not all that bad, and it was generally believed that the Rep.Party was for “making jobs” then I moved to Pennsylvania & I specifically remember JFK running at the time. My neighbor was an x-catholic and she said her Presbyterian minister told them not to vote for JFK because if he won the Pope would run our country. {Same as with Alfred Smith in the late 20’s]  I then voted for JFK. [I am not gung-ho for any party] I also lived in WV, VA, NC and SC and yes, the South [Republicans or Democrats] has always been anti-Catholic and anti-North {how many times have I heard ‘damned yankee’} But it is changing and I think EWTN in Alabama helped a great deal [also people are more educated today & have moved around more because of their jobs]  Lets face it, the Catholic Church will support any Catholic who is running, which is not a bad thing in my estimation. But remember Ted Kennedy was Pro-choice. The fact of the matter is, if you go back in history, politics has always been “dirty”. If you read enough about the Church, it also is political in its dealings, but then, I don’t expect my Church to be perfect since it run by imperfect people and that is why we have had so many problems of late.

Mary, I agree with a lot of what you are saying. Our Country and the World is a big mess. What scares me is how big our government has become and how it wants control of everything. I know a woman from Argentina and she remembers when her country controlled everything including the Catholic church. Little by little our Progressive government today is taking charge of so many things, healthcare for one and why would they give bonuses to CEO’s whose company we tax payers just helped out of a probable bankruptsy. Answer: because then the politicians get money support from them for re-election.

Let’s see,[scenario] that means, that if I am a republican and my tax money helps a company out of bankruptsy then that company, in turn, helps Obama get re-elected, that means my money has helped a Democrat and here I am a Republican.

As to hungry people in the world, Churches of every denomination help as does our government BUT the trouble is that those countries are corrupt and not helping their own people, in most cases.

As to poor people, there are some who help themselves and then there are others who leech on the government. I am not speaking of the many who are out of work today.

The churches are running out of money to help now because the need is so big. I was at least happy to see you say that the leeches did not include those out of work now. My husband, a wonderful Catholic prayerful man who taught 23 years in the Cathoilic schools,18 years in the last Catholic High school, had his job sut in 2010 due to cutbacks. The cutback all the older teachers. Their insurance costs more as they are at a higher risk( I work in a medical office)(prior to any healthcare implamintation by the government). Also it is a lot cheaper to pay for a teacher that is a new one and that does not have a masters degree.
Now hurry forward. Who do you think wants to hire a 58 year old man with lots of degrees that lives in an area the is called the top 3 worst cities for unemployment in the country.  He has been subbing, he takes a class. Every time he files they say ” Well you work too much , we are taking back your summer pay give us 915.00.. You are a sub not a teacher that lost their job after 18 yrs so you do not qualify, you take a classs so you can’t work so we are keeping your check.”  Now he is one that is not sitting home collecting a check from you but he is punished for doing it. That means in the last 4 months we got 300.00 from unemployment and 400.00 from subbing. Can you live on that? can anyone?
He has allpied for so many jobs, gone to interviews, they take one look at the white hair and well… you get the picture.
He is so hurt by those who lump the unemployed as lazy people sponging on America. It is crushing his Spirit.
Jobs??? They are not here. I appreciate your thoughts.I understand too. Luckily it was only the banks that did not repay their loans from us. At least the car companies repaid. You do know that. They should have let all the banks fail(That is true Capitalism) and sent all the money to every American. Then they could have all apid off their houses. The money would have gone back to the banks and VOILA HA!

I agree with you again Mary and I also know that Catholic lay teachers do not get paid as much as public school teachers.  I lived in W.Va for quite a number of yrs, that is where my children went to school,only we had the nuns then, so the cost was much less. [where have all the nuns gone?] People continually put W.Va. down by saying “welfare is their way of life” and that also is not true, they are hard-working people. The unemployment we have today is definitely the government’s problem and it is too long to go into.  I just wish that I could buy what I need, “made in the USA”.  I remember in grade school when our nun teachers said how fortunate we were because in this country, we not only had mountains, lakes, oceans and rivers, we also had everything we needed here to eat and manufacture. We did not have to depend on any other country. Then the government started paying small farmers “not to farm”, so much of our produce come from other countries as does our furniture and other things. All of my “old,old” furniture was made here in the U.S., but I just bought a small table for my kitchen made “elsewhere”.

He not only is anti-Catholic, he’s anti-capitalism unless you are a bundler of campaign contributions to him in which case you get tens of millions of tax-payer dollars for your start up green energy business with no requirement to pay it back if it fails; he’s anti-private business; anti-worker unless you are a government union worker; anti-private union worker (Gulf oil production shutdown while giving 2 billion American tax dollars to Brazil for them to drill for oil in the ocean off their coast, Keystone XL pipeline decision delayed) - need I go on?  Oh yeah - he’s anti-life whether unborn or born.  Catholics put this guy and his party in control of our county three years ago when unemployment was 7%, and one year ago Americans realized their mistake and gave one half of Congress back to the Republicans.  Catholics have a choice to make this coming year which will once again affect the entire nation.  They can join the rest of America and recapture the whole Congress and the White House, or they can vote the way the majority of Catholics voted in ‘08 and let Obama and the Democrats finish turning our country into the United States of Chicago..

OH MY! And he did all of this all by himself, and the war with no higher taxes for any of us did not have anything to do with the mess we are in? How about the resposibility of the banks and their getting rid of all the chains that held them in check before(cut during the Bush admin) . I have never seen such hate for one man before. He did not cause this mess. I am sure you think Mr Bush did not cause it either since the bailout started with his office. How sad that people in this country have to blame instead of giving constructive help to each other. Its all about the me.You are probably right, we do need to get back to the “Trickle Down Economy"It really worked well.  I would honestly and truly like to hear what solution you have for the country. What would you do differently to help us: Those without jobs,the vets,the middle class,the uninsured. Time to get off The Register.

The more I watch the Clown Car full of the Bozos running for the GOP nomination going from one “debate” to another, and the more I read through the rhetoric of the Right Wing, the itchier I get to call a bookie to put the mortgage down on Obama’s resounding reelection. One week the “debaters” are being applauded for frying guys, the next for letting ‘em croak and and another week the GOP’s give us more blood n’ guts circus groupies were cheering on somebody trashing a homosexual veteran who put his life in harm’s way in service to his country ... what a bunch of prolifers, and good stalwart Christian souls campaignin’ on for the Lord.
  Lawdy.
  Stillbelieve: Ya gotta be kidding, pal. I love ya, but you’re killing me. Obama’s anti-capitalist?  He’s created more private sector jobs in his three years after inheriting a tanked out economy that was run into the ditch by all those capitalists worming their way through an unregulated financial system that crashed the economy. Obama’s unemployment figures would be much lower had it not been for the GOP’s deliberate campaign to destroy the public service sector in every way it can.
  So much for the schmoozy treatment our first responders got right after 9/11. Well, that went south the moment the responders seemingly had the nerve to complain and doubled their galling nerve by filing lawsuits as more of them started actually dying from what they breathed in in the immmediate aftermath of the attacks.
  The party of the so-called “job creators” who received the biggest welfare queen treatment of all time in the Bush Tax cuts called for more gruel from the public trough last December even before a busload of Bozos entered the 112th Congress. We’ll be paying for that wealth redistribution (for generations to come!) that the GOP dare not have the guts to admit in truth that it was radical wealth redistribution…but upwards grand social theft.
  During the 08 campaign, Obama joked about the GOP calling him a socialist, saying they thought he was because he might’ve shared his toys with other kids while he was growing up.
  In GOPland, you get rewarded for the number of candy bars you steal from little kids.
  Obama’s neither “anti-capitalist” nor a socialist. Here’s another thing the president isn’t or ever has been: DISLOYAL.
  When politicians are so dumb enough to sign on to a grandstanding oath to the likes of Grover Norquist, the GOP’s Uber Hack of All Gauleiters, a non-, heck, let’s make it NEVER elected shadowy walking one man tumor on our political system ... and putting that oath higher than the ONLY legally binding oath they swear upon taking office, especially when it’s an oath preventing them from doing their job, which might be from time to time call for raising taxes, THEY ARE IN EFFECT, COMMITTING (ECONOMIC) TREASON. And when this oath is used in combination with Sen. McConnell’s vow to make the president a one-termer, no matter how bad he and his pals have to drag the economy to get the job done, that too is ECONOMIC TREASON via an economic coup de tat.
  Obama’s the anti-capitalist, but McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, Ryan et al can drag more people through economic hell,  lose their jobs and homes just so the public will get so riled as to toss Obama out of the Oval Office?
  Just like that officer during the Viet Nam War who torched a village to save it from Communism, so he said, The Guardians of Plutocracy, the ones who’ll burn down the national village to save it from enjoying any kind of recovery. At least the Righties are consistent.

Steven Thank you! I was beginning to think I was going to be “Anti-Catholic” since everyone was posting thoughts that even went against the Bishops council of helping those in need. I have never in my short 61 years seen such hate directed towards a man and the dis-respect that has been given. This whole article and blog in itself is the most anti-Catholic thing I have ever read because it is so un-Christian and un Christ likeIf any of the current GOP canidates make it into office it will be even more frightening! Why is there so much anger directed towards a single person that could not have done anything by himself.
I pray this anger can be re-directed into love for each other and mutual respect.

@Mary

“I would honestly and truly like to hear what solution you have for the country.”

The solution to these Democrat induced problems is for Catholics to stop giving their names and votes to the pro-abortion party that is behind all the culture and economic destruction our nation has been forced to endured by this party’s elected officials and allies the past 40 years, of which Catholics are this party’s single largest voting block.  Catholics don’t have to vote for the hated Republican Party (The party that came to the forefront to save our country in the Civil War and end slavery; the party that provided a larger percentage of votes in Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 then did the former KKK supporting Democrat Party whose Senate Congressional Members elected Robert Byrd as their Majority Leader, the founder of a 150 member KKK chapter he personally recruited, and who filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.).  If Catholics would simply remove their support for the pro-abortion party that defends intrinsic evil - as they should if they truly believe what they profess to believe standing after the Gospel in Sunday Masses, and pray for standing before the Holy Eucharist in church – that party would have to change their positions on those critical moral and spiritual issues or cease to be a viable political party.  In the event of such a spiritual move on the part of Catholics, the attacks on the Church would end; Roe v Wade would be overturned as the Democrats are both the main nominators of pro-abortion Supreme Court Justices, and opponents of suspected prolife Republican nominees; more tax revenues would flow into the Federal Treasury as a result of lower taxes, less stifling regulations, and real increased job growth in the private sector as was proven best by Ronald Reagan’s presidency following the colossal economic and security failure of Jimmy Carter’s who was responsible for why we are having to fight radical Islamist today.  The increased revenue would enable us to pay down our debt while also having more money for programs that the Church is involved in running.  It would also result in a total all out effort to produce our own oil to bring down the cost of gasoline and to reduce dependency on foreign sources especially those who are not really our friends like Saudi Arabia who is funding the building of Muslim mosque throughout our country and the world for eventually taking us over.  This is just a quick look at how we Catholics can have a major, positive impact on our nation and the world in a simple but powerful way for the benefit of the poor, needy and those suffering under this Democratic Depression.  It would return the right to all Americans and legal immigrants the opportunity to pursue happiness.  And I haven’t even mentioned the benefits that would occur in education that has become so defective and corrupted by Democrat unions and federal meddling.

Steven, you’re a wonderful word propagandist for this far left President and Democrat Senate, and previously the entire Democrat Congress in Bush’s last two years of office.  Once the Democrats took back Congress our financial problems started escalating.  And when Obama occupied the White House the problems have hit warped speed and I’m not talking about just wasteful and reckless spending, or unemployment, but true corruption using taxpayer money to payback Obama bundlers in one green scam after another.  The only reason Obama and his administration isn’t being taken away in handcuffs is because the useless Democrat Senate that hasn’t presented a budget in over three years for fear of revealing to the American people where and how they want to spend the people’s money.  And also, the fawning Democrat biased media continues to cover for this President, who is so incompetent that he doesn’t even know how to pronounce the word “corps” when presenting a medal to an American military warrior.  You know as well as I that this mess Obama and the Democrats are continuing to prolong and make worse was the result of Democrats forcing the banks and mortgage lenders to give loans to people who could not qualify for them without government threatening legal action against them if they didn’t do sub-prime lending.  These threats were accompanied by street mobs like we see in the “occupiers” today, organized then by ACORN.  These “occupiers” are what banks and lending institutions had to put up with every day, even demonstrating outside the homes of bank managers. This was all done through Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, quazi government institutions run by Democrats, who were given right away to do whatever they wanted to do by the Democrat controlled Congress which refused Republican attempts to get Congress to tighten up the lending practices that were developed as a result of the mortgage industry trying to comply with what the federal government was making them do.  For once, Steven, be honest about the facts instead of relying on your mastering of verbiage.  Lov you, too, man.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is stepping up his defense of his lucrative consulting career, in part by arguing that he didn’t do very much to earn all that money.
In an interview late Thursday on Fox News, Gingrich said that he only worked about an hour a month giving advice to Freddie Mac, the quasi-public mortage company that paid him up to $1.8 million in fees.

Given previous reports on the size of the payments, that would suggest that Gingrich earned up to $30,000 an hour giving Freddie Mac strategic advice.

“I think less than maybe once a month, they would drop by,” Gingrich said. “We’d spend an hour. It would always start with me listening. I’d always say, ‘What are you trying to solve? What are your concerns? What are you trying to get done?’ And I’ve done this with many, many clients.”

Oh and the recent GOP history lesson forgot to mention that a Republican wrote Roe VS Wade. Better get out of that communion line.

lets lighten it up

Aug. 15, 2011, the government will begin deporting old people instead of illegal immigrants.
This will lower fiscal pressures on
Social Security
and Medicare.

I started crying
when I thought of you.

RUN, YOU OLD BUZZARD, RUN!!

Well…. someone sent it to me
and I ain’t going alone!

Stillbelieve..you are right abt. the mortgage companies, my daughter worked for one at the time and when she wanted to discuss it with her superior, he just walked away.  The government insisted them do it.  Also talking about Acorn…look up NACA and see what you find. Another to look up is Nanuet, NY Brinks Robbery [my territory]. The woman arrested just got out of prison after some 20 yrs and her two yr old baby at the time was brought up by the guy who started the ‘weather underground organization’ when they were young. [is also a Chicago friend of Obamas’s, tho Obama won’t admit to it…is now a professor in a college]  I read that the baby, now grown is living in S.America.
In 1998 I moved to N.C. I was out with my real estate agent looking for a place to buy and I could not believe the huge homes down here and I asked her how these young people could afford it.  She said, they can’t, but they get them and wait and see, someday down the road they will all lose them..She was right…...

@Jim

“Social commentator and former alter-boy George Carlin sums it up…”

And what is that suppose to mean? 

Fifty-five percent of Catholic votes in 2008 went to elect the first pro-abortion, pro-infanticide President we ever had.  Dare I say Catholic clergy were probably equally represented in that vote?  If church-going Catholics and clergy can be so wrong in their discernment today, why is it a big deal if one made a wrong decision on a judicial matter38 years ago?  The error of making that decision is not as great as continuing to reinforce it as Catholics have done by continuing to give their name identification and votes to the pro-abortion party all these years.  And now the institution of so called “social justice” - which has become so much more important to those pro-abortion party voting Catholics than the murder of 52,000,000 innocent unborn babies - is coming undone as the pro-abortion party turns now against the Church on another of her major concers – homosexuality as it concerns marriage and family.  When will the bishops, clergy, and laity learn; all they have to do to stop this assault and reverse these negative cultural trends is to simply remove their names from the voting rolls of the pro-abortion party, and stop giving them their votes until they change their positions on issues to Catholics that attack their spiritual beliefs.

Our culture is generally anti-Catholic. Our president is specifically anti-Catholic in the specifics of his ideology and policy. Both political parties are complicit, neither are clean.

As Peter Kreeft has said, it’s not that there are barbarians at the gate. In a way of speaking, WE are the ones at the gate of the barbarians.

I find it freeing to admit that no party represents well the teachings of the Catholic faith in matters of social justice, let alone things that cross paths with faith and morals.

I owe allegiance to none but the Church. I am a free man with no earthly home. I will pitch tents, then, and build altars, as our forefather Abraham did when he left the land of Ur.

Stevenr.f.

“Our culture is generally anti-Catholic.”

There was a time when I was a boy growing up in Joliet, ILL when the Rialto, the biggest and best movie theater in town, showed a movie that I believe was called Blue Lagoon.  It was said to be a bit risqué.  I remember reading a newspaper article shortly there after where the bishop of the Dioceses called a meeting of the operator of the movie theater and got a promise from him of not showing a movie of that nature ever again.

Imagine that; the Diocese calls up the theater and says, “What are you doing?!”  And the theater says, “Sorry, we won’t ever do that again.”  Such a bold move would be unheard of today.  Now, it’s the Democrat Party elected leaders telling the Bishops what they can and can’t do.  Who’s responsible for this reversal of rolls?  I disagree that one party is as equally responsible as the other.  I think one party is primarily responsible for it all.  And that party is the same one I USED to be a member of.  And I think Catholics, themselves, are RESPONSIBLE for this roll reversal because too many of them remained in the party because of the phony issue of so-called “social justice.”

With apologies to Inspector Reynauld in Casablanca, “Mon Dieu, anti-Catholicism in Americain politics ... Impossible in these progressive times! Non! Non!”
“Sir, the latest poll results YOU requested from the [Guttmacher Institute].”
“Pssssst, did you have to say “Guttmacher” so loudly?”
Anti-Catholicism and American History, ever the makings of a long and (not so) wonderful friendship.”

What about anti-Catholicism in Argentina…..I am wondering if what my Argentinian neighbor told me is correct. Tried checking on the internet but all I found was anti-Catholicism.

@Steven

“Anti-Catholicism and American History, ever the makings of a long and (not so) wonderful friendship.”

But now, Steven, the attack against the Catholic Church is coming directly from the Democrat Party controling the White House and the Senate.

@StillBelieve: It’s always coming from all angles. Always has been, always will be. Just a fact of American life.
@Mary, it pays to keep in mind, with tongue in cheek, (or someplace safe where) you can’t bite down on it by accident while reading many of the replies from the Righties in the Register’s combox threads ... especially when their favorite “Muslim” president happens to be the main entree.
  I’m convinced a good portion of them would vote for the next Benito Mussolini to come along so long as he promised to simply outlaw all abortions and keep the Bush tax cuts in place. (And promise it after taking his shirt off to pull the ol’ chest-pounding schtick.) They’ll genuflect to the Brothers Koch and Grover Norquist in a heartbeat, never mind the fact Norquist is the single most potentially destructive man to pose a threat to American freedom today. He simply wants to destroy it, notwithstanding all his coy replies on CBS 60 Minutes last night.
  I’d be a lot more concerned about the Anti-American “values” of Norquist and his Godfather-like control over so many politicians than any perceived anti-Catholicism on President Obama’s part. The contempt of Norquist is far more palpable and dangerous to the Republic than the President’s inability to understand where we’re coming from. Maybe it’s his Congregationalist views, and they, despite their genteel veneers, are hardly the Catholic Church’s real friends. They simply don’t get it and this is a result of so many years spent looking down their long thin Yankee noses at us.
  Norquist and his anti-government no-tax pledge, are nothing but back-room psychopathic amoral anarchists. Stop and think of what life without any form of regulations, or a government body to enforce them so that our water’s clean, our air’s fit to breath and we won’t find our bank accounts rifled out with impunity in a nano-second by banksters given free rein to pull whatever their hearts desires in ways that’d make even Bernie Madoff blush with shame.

Steven, you’re so full of Democrat Party propaganda b.s. its amazing how you keep the smell from coming out of the monitor.  I bet you still believe that the Democrat Party is for the “little guy.”  Yeah, the “little guy” they’re for is George Soros and his billions; now, there’s a real saint in the making.  Just remember, Georgie and you will both have a hearing before Jesus Christ.  Are you ready to hear his judgment on your life?  I’m glad I recognized the lie that the Democrat Party was back in my early 30s and got out of it before it corrupted me clinging to its lies and propaganda in order to defend my need to feel superior to others.

@StillBelieve: I’ll give you two Kochs, Dave & Charlie for the price of one George Soros and we’ll call it a day. Deal?
  See, all liberals aren’t like another former Massachusetts guv who ran for president and got his clock cleaned like the more recent vintage of another Bay Stater imitating Thomas Dewey while running for president. Unlike the 1988 vintage, most of us have a more robust sense of humor. Notice the word robust, which the girlie man Mitt has a hard time even coming close to convincing he has one with that irritating giggle of his.
  Let’s face it, though, it’s hard as hell for even Mitt to keep a straight face while saying “corporations are people, my friend” in his usual condescendingly phony way, not to mention adding further insult to injuries (to his own reputation! LOL) by telling the world he’s a regular “middle class” guy who’s also unemployed while running for president.
  Yeah, one of Mitt’s Beacon Hill predecessors cleaned his own clock by wearing that snoopy hat, but who the hell is advising the Mittster when it comes to making sartorial choices? Mitt Romney as Norm Abram wearin’ a plaid shirt n’ blue jeans?
  And what kind of a front runner does the party of “job creators” have when Mitt the Job Outsourcer Romney is still sitting atop the list and he’s being threatened by the likes of Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich? Please, don’t cite that poll showing Romney ahead of Obama now. Even that’s too laughable at this very early stage to take as seriously as you even take George Soros.
  What a year ahead this one will be! Who knows, maybe the GOP will HAVE to nominate Dave & Charlie to be their ticket. Why not? It’d be THE PERFECT TICKET for the Good Ol’ Plutocrats.

Steven, I heard Soros’s wealth increased from $10,000,000,000 from 2009 to $19,000,000,000 in 2010 soon after a couple meetings with Obama in the White House in which a company owned by Soros was hired to direct where stimulus money should be spent.  Interestingly, a lot of companies that received some of Obama’s “stash” especially green companies also happen to be companies Soros invested a lot of money in soon afterwards. I wonder what he’s going to do with all his money.  At least Koch brothers invest it in businesses they own that employ over 50,000 people.  Soros spends his money attacking the financial structure of countries causing them to collapse in which he makes a killing.  Seems like something like that happens to be happening right here in America.  Is it just a coincidence that America’s economic strength is being destroyed by Obama’s irrational spending coupled with his destruction of employment in major industries?

Sue:  Did the lady from Argentina tell you why the Government is hostile to the Church, along with a sizable section of the population?

Does she know of the shameful cooperation of the bishops with the murderous military regime that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered about 30,000 thousand people (one of my cousins among them?)  Does she know that Cardinal Bergoglio, a frequent critic of the Governemt was found to have offered his country house to the military so that they could hide some of the kidnapped people from a fact finding mission from the Red Cross?  Does she know of von Wernicke a military chaplain who comforted torturers when they doubted, telling them that they were doing God’s work? Does she know that when von Wernicke was called to answer for his deeds, the bishops gave him a new identity and shipped him to an unsuspecting parish in Chile? 

With those deeds, the bishops there should be thankful that they are not spat upon in the street.

StillBelieve, please don’t tell me you’re following the Fox News approach towards attribution when they say “people say,” and other words to the same effect. Where’s your source? I’d be much more concerned about somebody like Mitt Romney sucking up to the Kochs (along with that other guy from MA, Scott Brown who’s on record as having actually gone practically begging after Koch money.)
  I’m not disputing you, but I’d be very leery about using the old “people say” line. Maybe it’s the one-time editor speaking, but the “people say” line is one of Fox’s biggest blunder self-set up lines and I know for sure you’re much too intelligent to follow the Lupine Network’s m.o.  BTW, Have a Very Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving.

Do bears s**t in the woods? The Obama administration is anti-Catholic; they are anti-gun; they are against free speech if it is anything that contradicts the Messiah’s agendas, or if it is anything pro-Christian that may “offend” an atheist or perceived religious minority.  The so-called “transparent” administration does support back-room politics that involves pushing through unpopular legislation by circumventing Congress and the public review process; they suuport free speech when a non-Christian group is trashing Christians or Christian values;  and they seem to be Ok with selling guns to Mexican drug dealers. None of this is really any surprise - if you listened to Obama’s speeches before he was elected, read his writings, and looked at who he has hung out with over the years (a racist pastor, known terrorists to name a few) he really showed his true metal. It is unfathomable to me that any, much less a majority, of Catholics voted for Obama. Of course, I find it amazing that any population voted for Obama, if they had only listened to what he was saying he was going to do.  US voters made a grieveous error in 2008 - we need to correct the problem in 2012 while the US as we know it has a chance to survive.

@Gary: This nugget of info is certainly illuminating as well as entertaining: “...they are against free speech if it is anything that contradicts the Messiah’s agendas ... “
  Let’s see now, it’s been almost a full three years into the “Messiah’s” reign and so far Rush, Sean, e/a are still free to make boodles of bucks pushing their mantra of “Fail ‘bama Fail” as they have been since the beginning days of President Obama’s administration.
  Care to run that argument again?