PostHeaderIcon Sidelining the National Day of Prayer & honoring an abortion promoter in a US Catholic university



Perhaps, a sign of state-sanctioned alienation between religion and the American people, the Obama administration didn’t publicly celebrate its usual interfaith gathering of religious leaders in a day of National Prayer on Thursday, May 7, 2009. Instead Pres. Barack Obama passed the 58th annual occasion silently with his own “private’ prayer without the traditional ceremony in the White House.

This comes as the controversy of having the US president in the graduation exercises of Notre Dame University heats up. Catholic TV preacher Fr. John Corapi, speaking for the Cardinal Newman Society in a You Tube clip has voiced his vigorous objections in honoring Obama saying he is "anti-life and an enemy of Catholic moral teaching."

Former Archbishop of St. Louis and top Vatican prelate Raymond Burke, one among about 70, has criticized the attendance of Obama to the Catholic school ceremony. The archbishop says having him in the May 17 graduation is a source of “greatest scandal.” He is the same Catholic leader who called the confirmation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic and abortion advocate in Obama’s cabinet, "the source of deepest embarrassment for Catholics."

“Obama supports abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research. He also repealed a policy that denied federal dollars to international relief organizations that provide abortions or abortion-related information. And he backs legislation that would prohibit state and local governments from interfering with a woman's right to obtain an abortion.”---Huffington Post (05/06/09, Laleski, K)

Many Catholics are deeply offended of having to honor politicians who support the killing of the innocents and pursue secular prestige over what their moral beliefs dictate. According to the Cardinal Newman Society, a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that more than twice as many Americans (with a bigger margin among Catholics) don’t agree with University of Notre Dame’s decision to give an honorary law degree to President Barack Obama. (Photo Credit: Supernova9) =0=

For Fr. John Corapi's message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X89_XLYbpxU

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