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Vatican congratulates Obama on Nobel
by John L Allen Jr on Oct. 09, 2009
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PDF version"The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Obama is greeted with appreciation in the Vatican, in light of the commitment demonstrated by the President for the promotion of peace in the international arena, and in particular also recently in favor of nuclear disarmament. It's hoped that this very important recognition will further encourage that commitment, which is difficult but fundamental for the future of humanity, so that the desired results will be obtained."
Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionIn response to this morning's announcement that U.S. President Barack Obama would be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, the Vatican Press Office released a statement of congratulations.
An NCR translation from the Italian follows:
In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Perhaps the Vatican could
Perhaps the Vatican could explain this statement...
"The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Obama is greeted with appreciation in the Vatican, in light of the commitment demonstrated by the President for the promotion of peace in the international arena, and in particular also recently in favor of nuclear disarmament."
...How exactly does Obama allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons promote peace? Answer: It does NOT, in fact it does the exact opposite as does his naive nuclear disarmament policy. Perhaps the only entity more naive than BHO is the Vatican/Roman Catholic Church when it comes to nuclear disarmament.
The real question is how and
The real question is how and why has the world allowed Israel to have nuclear weapons? And how can the Catholic church allow our (Catholic) Palestinian brothers to be persecuted and treated worse than animals? There will be no peace in the world until we stand in support and protection of the innocent Palestinian citizens who suffer at the hands of the Israelis + the U.S.
"The awarding of the Nobel
"The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Obama is greeted with appreciation in the Vatican, in light of the commitment demonstrated by the President for the promotion of peace in the international arena, and in particular also recently in favor of nuclear disarmament. It's hoped that this very important recognition will further encourage that commitment, which is difficult but fundamental for the future of humanity, so that the desired results will be obtained."
The Vatican has it exactly right. Why is it that the bishops in Rome see this with clear vision while Chaput and his ilk are so clueless?
Steve
Anyone who does not stand
Anyone who does not stand firmly with the Vatican statement, as with the most recent social encyclical, is a dissenter.
Anyone who does not stand firmly with our President in the audacity of hoping and working and speaking and praying to fulfill this vision of peace and reconciliation is less than patriotic.
God bless our President.
frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco)
No one in the Catholic Church
No one in the Catholic Church should show any honor to anyone who does not take a firm stand against abortion. Instead of being congratulated by the pope for his peace efforts, Obama should be chastised. Not only for his intent to kill additional babies, but for his blindness towards those suffering at the hands of world Zionism.
And to resort to name calling and say that I am not a patriot for not supporting Obama does not injure me in the least. There was a time when I joined the military and volunteered to go to Viet Nam because I believed the lies I had been fed. The country I sacrificed for does not exist. Don't expect me to make excuses for, and support a nation responsible for too many deaths and an enormous amount of sin.
Rather than the lies that
Rather than the lies that rush to war (cf. Joe Ferullo's recent article remembering Sakharov) not only in Vietnam and in Central America but in 2002 the rush into Iraq and the Afghan, we may now at long last bear not arms but the audacity of hope that the clean air of truth might now come our way, and justice, and at long last peace, and thus this just award.
In any case, I beg you forgive me as I must trust Our Holy Father the Pope's judgment in this matter, and I thank you for your perspective, and see your suffering.
May we have as you mention peace, and justice, at long last as well in Palestine
and at home
and in our hearts, minds and souls
frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco)
The world congratulates
The world congratulates President Obama for working for Middle East Peace, working for better relations with Muslims, working to reduce the stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, and ending the lie, torture, bomb and invade first, ask questions later policies of his predecessor.
Steve
O, come. We all know this is
O, come. We all know this is simply a polite state response, which is likely to come from other states. The Church likes nuclear disarmament. Don't forget his anti-life agenda against babies and disabled and elderly. This is insurance against escalation in Afghanistan and simply for not being Bush. Nobel is anti-American and anti-Israel. What a sham and a shame.
Yes! Here here! The
Yes! Here here!
The prejudice of the Nobel committee is well documented. Why just last week the bitter, craven, racist members of the committee awarded the prize in chemistry to... uh ... an American and ,,, well ,,,an Israeli. Those fiends!
Please note the ironic sarcasm in the preceding.
Also, anti-life? He's trying to get healthcare to everybody; even those pesky already-born babies. How about you come down to the cancer clinic with me sometime and I show you my patients who are denied treatment by their insurance company death panels for reasons that have o foundation in science. I can introduce you to a whole spectrum of medical professionals who can patiently explain how our current system forces the least among us out on the street and how Barack HUSSEIN Obama's plan will protect the elderly, disabled and children from corporate exploitation.
The president is not my ideal. But the man is truly trying to make things better. After Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush he certainly has his hands full.
Dearest Steve: Will I think
Dearest Steve:
Will I think you as lovely when you remove your blinders? No, I think not. I didn't take birth control pills long enough, and therefore I prefer masculine men.
Peace be with you my child.
I think President Obama said
I think President Obama said it best:
"Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.
To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize, men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.
But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women and all Americans want to build, a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents.
And I know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes."
May this prize lead to more success in the pursuit of peace.
Three huge jokes in the
Three huge jokes in the world-the Nobel,Obama, and Modernist Rome, condemned by Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and 257 other Roman Catholic pontiffs of the Roman Catholic Church.
Wait a moment, as I find it
Wait a moment, as I find it difficult to follow your train of thought here, what with my severely limited literary capabilities.
Are you saying that (let me count) 260 Popes have condemned Modernist Rome, President Barack Obama, and the Nobel (Prize, Committee, what have you?)? Can you please document your source for this, as I cannot find it in the Reverend Father Richard P. McBrien's monumental, and recently updated, work on the Papacy. It seems the present Pope has not condemned but congratulated the Nobel Committee upon its decision, as this article here reports.
Are you joking?
just wondering
frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco)
A complete farce and joke is
A complete farce and joke is this awarding of a "peace" prize to Obama. He is a satanic puppet of the new world order. God bless us all and lets hope god obsolves us of our sins as the last days are upon us. Two wars and getting ready for a third??? Peace prize? Wake up people this is a complete farce.
I am shocked that the pope
I am shocked that the pope would not poit out the hipocracy of the whole thing . He is for "peace" yet he wages war on unborn children ? He hasen'y
stopped the war like he said he has escilated and now wants 10K bunker busters for Iran (in the news ) Why does the Church allow pro aborts to get communion in the first palce ? I know you liberals are gonna be mad because
51% of Us voted for Obama ? The Pope said nothing and then allowd the
Kennedy thing with Obama there again ! Now it seems the church is pn the side of socialized healtcare ? Benedict is also changing the Trudentine Mass
that St Pius said cound NOT be changed (ex cathedra !) I'm not sure you catholics who voted pro abortion are even still Catholics . Only 30% of Bishops complained about the Obama speech and then the Kennedu Obama speech
I guess the Pope don't want to upset "the people " rather than keeping the faith intact ..............51% (sic)
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