Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The President and the Pope, as told by the White House

Chip Bok; Pope and President 
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"The pope gave the president a copy of Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel)."....
Obama surely loved the publication's opinion of free markets, but these next words, well, not so much:
 
Among the vulnerable for whom the Church wishes to care with particular love and concern are unborn children, the most defenceless and innocent among us. Nowadays efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatever one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this. Frequently, as a way of ridiculing the Church’s effort to defend their lives, attempts are made to present her position as ideological, obscurantist and conservative. Yet this defence of unborn life is closely linked to the defence of each and every other human right. ...  Full article

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