Prof. Obama Comes to Georgetown

Sorry about the typos (excommunicated), but I hope you get my gist. This story was more than my stomach could handle.

Bryans6 wrote:

"As long as economics is more important than protecting innocent life, then our country's priorities are way off balance"

Now let me ask you which innocent life are you talking about. The girl in Brazil who was raped repeatedly by her stepfather and was going to have twins at age 9???? Or could be you possibly be talking about the fetuses she was carrying and who were thankfully aborted????

I am not a friend of abortion, but there are times when it is a necessary evil that protects the ones already living!

And that sleezeball of stepfather who violated this 6-year girl for 3 years should not only have been excommincated, but also castrated.

No big surprise that this article is written by Thomas Reese, SF. He is more concerned about politics and has always been popular. Probably why he is no longer at the Jesuit Magazine, America. Too bad being educated about economics is so impressive to him when singing Obama's praises. It doesn't take a scholar to know why we are in this mess. As long as economics is more important than protecting innocent life, then our country's priorities are way off balance. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the LIFE! If our country put our Hope in Him then we would get our priorities straight.

I just can't see Jesus wandering around blathering on about abortion. There are so many other sins, after all, like self-righteousness and judgment; meaness and selfishness; disrespect of your fellow human beings. I still can't understand why Catholics can't just be pro-life and work toward prevention; why must they essentially set themselves on fire every time someone mentions abortion. How can an entire church be about abortion? How did this happen?? How did morality become so inextricably aligned with one-sided, small-minded, vitriolic self-righteousness? What's moral about that?

Thanks, Father Reese, for offering consistent evidence that there are sane, thinking Catholics out there.

Fr. Reese,

One question -- do you believe that abortion is in contravention of God's teaching and that it should be banned by govts? No need to answer publicly, but if you answer in the affirmative, a confessional is waiting for you. And, I would hate to see your response if I asked you about your beliefs re the Eucharist.

Hi Father Reese,

Thank you for yet another fine essay, although I must say that your Catholic readers are not in favor of what you wrote.

One spoke of "conservative critics" being in line with the Church = Jesus, the other although he claims to be liberated, claims that our new President is head of the the "Immoral Majority", whoever that may be.

Take heart, at least you have one non-believer who agrees whith you.

Bottom line: BO is the new leader of the Immoral Majority so it is reasonable that he would draw a crowd!!!!

Hello GDMurray1861,

While Mr. Reese did seem to suggest that the "conservative critics" were more irrelevant, you make a metaphor of the similarity of the messages of them and Jesus. I disagree completely with this alignment, though it seems to hold water with current day conservative christians. But then, George Bush was a brilliant beam of blessed light to them as well. And to the "conservative critics" as well, till they had to have an embarrassing divorce.

The conservative pundits of the leading news outlets have had some years of limelight and are fighting for relevancy and ratings in the Obama era. Thank God for Obama. The idea that God is all about bombing the humans of 'infidel' countries while being anti-abortion, pro-death penalty is ludicrous. God is neither conservative or liberal.

You may believe that "conservative critics" "message about life is the Church's--which means it's Jesus'" if you wish that illusion. I have no such illusion that those traders in fear and cheerleaders of war are verbalizing the message of Jesus. Don't be so silly, or depressing. They are voices of darkness.

Of course people didn't protest. Notre Dame is giving President Obama an honorary degree - thus conferring on him an HONOR - whereas Georgetown did not. These were two different situations. You clearly must not have understood the issue that so-called "conservative critics" have with the Notre Dame situation if you think that the Georgetown situation is the same.

It's shameful that you would paint other Catholics in such a bad light as to think that we want Obama shunned from Catholic universities. As Archbishop Dolan has pointed out, we must engage, not honor. Engagement is key.

Also, I hope that your Catholic morality is not shaped by popularity, as it seems to be - you spend two paragraphs simply on how popular Obama is. Hopefully this is not equated with, "Therefore this must be right."

So the "conservative critics" are showing their "total irrelevance"? Simply because they were not listened to?

The Gospels tell many stories about occasions where Jesus was ignored or contradicted by the crowd. Was he "irrelevant"? The apostle Paul was completely dissed by the sophisticated philosophers of Athens, who didn't understand a word he said, as the Acts of the Apostles reports. Did that reaction make him "irrelevant"? In the world's eyes, perhaps.

A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not. Guess that makes the light "irrelevant," Tom? To whom?

It's not that "conservative critics" (your label, Tom) are the same as Jesus here, but in this case their message about life is the Church's--which means it's Jesus'.