Interesting report: Vatican blocked the appointment of Caroline Kennedy as Vatican Ambassador.
I hope the poor woman finds herself a solid priest who can guide her through the spiritual gauntlet. Pride has a way of grabbing onto events like this in our lives and carrying us away. Please pray for her and for some priest to pick up a phone and help her to the understanding of the Cross. Each of us has arrived there in a different way but we all know the struggles of the will. I saw a great bumper sticker while driving the other day - "Don't believe everything you think".
Obama has sent three candidates for Ambassador to the Vatican and they apparently have all been kiboshed.
“The Holy See has always set a very simple standard: the person should not be in opposition to fundamental teachings of the Church that belong to our common shared humanity. He or she may not believe in Catholic dogma if he or she is not a Catholic, but we could not accept someone who is in favor of abortion, or (human) cloning or same-sex unions equated to marriage,” the official said.“That is a fairly simple principle that governments like, say, Spain and Cuba, or Mr. Clinton’s administration, have been able to understand without a problem.”
The official said that the debate around the chances of Prof. Kmiec to become Vatican Ambassador “is closed.” “He nailed the last nail in the coffin with his latest “disappointing position on embryonic stem cell research."
As C.J. rightly said, it's a calculated insult to the Holy See to suggest Catholics that reject the teachings of the Church to be the U.S. liaison to the Vatican.
In more news, Catholic Democrats are becoming Disenchanted with Obama: The wallets he's stuffing are not panning out to be theirs and Doug Kmiec and Nicholas Carfardi are not satisfactorily selling them Obama's radical abortion policies . Even Catholics who are early on their journey to the Cross are getting a whiff of sulfur.
While Obama and his wizards are pretending they wanted open communication from religious leaders on whether or not to rescind the conscience rights of practicing Catholics and prolifers, the reality is, it is smoke and mirrors.
The White House, however, has strongly hinted to abortion-rights advocates that the comment period was merely a formality and that Obama is expected to rescind the rule as early as next week.
It is the beginning of the end for religious freedom. The beginning of all out warfare against Christendom in the United States. All "faith-based" of course.
The Pope yesterday prayed for those boarded on the ark of the godless and drifting towards their destination.
Speaking at the seventh Station of the Cross, where Jesus is made an "object of fun", he said: "We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink. 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.
"Everything in public life risks being desacralised: persons, places, pledges, prayers, practices, words, sacred writings, religious formulae, symbols, ceremonies.
"Our life together is being increasingly secularised. Religious life grows diffident. Thus we see the most momentous matters placed among trifles, and trivialities glorified.
"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 Pope, who turns 82 later this month, prayed that Christians would respond to the problem by growing in faith.
"May we never question or mock serious things in life like a cynic," he prayed.
"Allow us not to drift into the desert of godlessness. Enable us to perceive you in the gentle breeze, see you in street corners, love you in the unborn child."
I went to a local parish for yesterday's Good Friday's services. I'll spare the most egregious scandal and cut to the homily. Drivel, drivel, drivel. Insufferable drivel.
Today, we kiss the wood of the Cross, there's no Corpse, this isn't a funeral for Jesus, the Cross is love, will you embrace the love, the love is loving, I love love, you love love, Jesus loves love, Jesus loved God so much he took the Cross, He loves you, love is about your relationship with God, if you take the love people will laugh at you, that is the cross - and on and on it went for what seemed to be an eternity.
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