The Pope and President Obama (Palin, Palin)

[Guest]

( I thought I'd try the Palin sugestion.)

It was good to see the Pope so receptive of the leader of our nation. He obviously realizes that there are major differences in key dogmas, but also that the U.S. and the Church have much to work together for.

Too bad our own narrow-minded Catholic leaders are too myopic about birth control, abortion and stemcells to understand that progressive ideology is much more Gospel centered than the (Calvinist-inspired) "muscular" Christianity, and there is much that we can work together on concerning issues of social justice, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, stopping war, etc.

[Guest]

( I thought I'd try the Palin sugestion.)

It was good to see the Pope so receptive of the leader of our nation. He obviously realizes that there are major differences in key dogmas, but also that the U.S. and the Church have much to work together for.

Too bad our own narrow-minded Catholic leaders are too myopic about birth control, abortion and stemcells to understand that progressive ideology is much more Gospel centered than the (Calvinist-inspired) "muscular" Christianity, and there is much that we can work together on concerning issues of social justice, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, stopping war, etc.



Hmmmm Seems to me that the United States of America has been doing all those things from the spoils of Capitalism.

[Guest]

( I thought I'd try the Palin sugestion.)

It was good to see the Pope so receptive of the leader of our nation. He obviously realizes that there are major differences in key dogmas, but also that the U.S. and the Church have much to work together for.

Too bad our own narrow-minded Catholic leaders are too myopic about birth control, abortion and stemcells to understand that progressive ideology is much more Gospel centered than the (Calvinist-inspired) "muscular" Christianity, and there is much that we can work together on concerning issues of social justice, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, stopping war, etc.
If you don't like Catholic doctrine, tough! No one is forcing you to be a Catholic.

Personally, I think it's narrow-minded to believe that life must be terminated because it's inconvenient. And the Catholic position on stem cell research is that it's fine unless the harvesting of the cells is at the expense of a life. Again, narrow-mindedness is that all life is subject to termination if it helps "me."

"Progressive" does not have to involve the termination of any life -from conception to natural death. If "Progressive" means that any life - from conception to natural death - can be sacrificed in the pursuit of scientific knowledge, then the Nazis should be the poster children for the "progressive" movement.