One of America's most prominent Catholics has joined the chorus slamming the University of Notre Dame for inviting President Obama to speak at the school's May 17 commencement.
Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago, called Obama's planned appearance an "extreme embarrassment" to Catholics while speaking at a recent conference hosted by the archdiocese's Respect Life office in Rosemont, according to a video his remarks on lifesitenews.com.
Ok, so honoring the president of the United States is an embarrassment, but protecting pedophile priests isn't. How patriotic. I guess you have to a Catholic first and an American second. And how about the excommunication of the Mother in Brazil for allowing her daughter to have an abortion. Her nine year old daughter, who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, had an abortion because it was felt that the small girl couldn't survive bringing twins to term. The kicker is that the step father wasn't excommunicated, since according to the bishop he didn't commit a mortal sin. Humm, let me get this straight - child rape, not a sin, but abortion to save the child victimized by rape, that's a mortal sin.
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The short answer is this: The Church is composed of fallible humans and is itself fallible in its actions. There are about one billion of us and in any group of one billion humans, you're bound to find some real, serious nuts.
As for Obama going to Notre Dame, I can't fathom why the invitation ever went out. From a pro-life perspective, it's hard to find anyone more devoted to the cause of slaughtering the innocent unborn than he is. He's even farther off the edge than Hillary and she just received the Margaret "I support abortion so we can kill black babies" Sanger award from Planned Parenthood.
Abortion has failed in its original goal - to eliminate unwanted babies. Instead, it's eliminated unwanted responsibility in men and led to fatherless children, overstuffed prisons and all manner of social pathologies. In exchange for this we slaughter millions. Not exactly the sort of thing the Church supports. I can think of plenty of people who would be better commencement speakers than Obama.
I think you're making an unfair comparison here with the other anecdotes. With the pedophile homosexual priests and the excommunicaiton, you've chosen some examples of Catholic behavior that are several standard deviations outside of the norm. I assume you're holding that up to your readers for shock value whereupon they will implicitly compare it to their own values and lives which, presumably, are not several standard deviations off the norm. That's unfair.
If you compared the value of a second-string linebacker on the Colts to Peyton Manning, what would you conclude? Well, that's what you've done. If you want to use these examples, then you need to dredge up proper comparisons from the non-Catholic world. Find me narrow-minded intolerant nuts four standard deviations off the norm if you want to compare someone to the excommunications.
If you want to go for the pedophile priest comparison, try reading some of Theodore Dalrymple's descriptions of his work with the underclass in Britain. When you're done with that, let me know how it all ends up. Did the human scum in Dalrymple's essays ever attempt to atone for their sins in any way?
Finally, I followed the link and read the article about that poor little girl in Brazil. Did you notice that her stepfather is the one who raped her? I immediately thought of Charles Murray's assertion that biology will find that such actions have some biological basis. I also thought of the behavior of certain primates where when the alpha male is deposed by a rival, the new owner of the harem of females will kill all of the previous king's babies.
Hmmmmm.
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