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Are the perspectives of Pope Benedict and President Obama the same?

Monday, July 13, 2009

Since the election of Barrack Obama, many U.S. Bishops have not been as hospitable as our current pontiff. I’ve came across some reasons whythe pontiff may have been more hospitable. Some of these reasons may be:

• The Vatican has been dealing with politicians for centuries.
• European culture is different since Catholics have lost the battle for abortion so they concentrate on other issues
• The pope found a connection from his view expressed in his recent encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) with Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame

So what is it? Could it be that the pope looks at the big picture?  The pope agreed on the issue of bio-ethics and life with the previous administration, but I feel that was the only issues they saw eye-to-eye. Our current president has shown light of other issues, such as the need for:

• Charity
• HealthCARE
• Community
• Peace /Love

President’s commencement address at Notre Dame and Pope Benedict’s recent encyclical seems to be words that remind me of my post reviewing “A Civilization of Love” by Sir Grand Knight Anderson.  From my past posts you may have seen a bias toward this president. Now it’s time to test this man to his words.  I feel that many of his ideas of volunteering and providing for the greater good is what jesus would want. In general I feel that abortion is one great issue, but not the greatest issue. The greatest issue is to love everyone no matter what. Jesus did and we must trust that this president may not be our pro-life president, but he may be the president of hope to change our culture to a culture of love. Maybe the pope is taking this message of love from JP2 and our lord and sees something in our president that the bishops have not seen, Hope. Maybe our president can provide hope for our community to become more charitable, loving, and proactive. On the same note people like the CatholicHack have the correct idea that we need to have hope that he will become our pro-life president. As I see it he is three quarters there, he does not believe in capital punishment and he want to try to “reduce the number of abortions”.

So is the Vatican more political, in order, to deal with politicians with whom they disagree or does the pope like President Obama outside some ethical gaps? I think not , when our the pontiff and president shook hands, was a start of an ongoing dialog that may change our presidents heart on this issue.

Posted by Catholic Chump on 07/13 at 11:59 AM in News,Politics, (0) Comments