Desde Estados Unidos, un lector del blog nos ha hecho llegar su perplejidad y disconformidad con el nombramiento del doctorado Honoris Causa que la Universidad de Notre Dame concederá a Barack Obama proximamente.Al respecto, Mary Ann Glendon, una de las intelectuales católicas de mayor prestigio mundial, rechazó el galardón que la Universidad de Notre Dame le concedió en protesta por el doctorado honoris causa que este centro de estudios católico conferirá al Presidente Barack Obama, a pesar de su abierta promoción del aborto.
Glendon rechazó la llamada Laetare Medal que le sería impuesta en la misma ceremonia a la que está invitado Obama, y se sumó a los más de 50 obispos estadounidenses y 300 mil ciudadanos que han manifestado su rechazo a la presencia del político abortista.
El rector de Notre Dame, Padre John I. Jenkins, alegó que el premio a Obama quiere reconocer su histórica elección y su ambicioso programa social de lucha contra la pobreza. Sin embargo, una de las primeras medidas que tomó Obama al asumir la presidencia fue levantar el veto a la financiación federal para organizaciones que promueven el aborto en el extranjero.
Glendon es profesora de Harvard, ha sido embajadora de Estados Unidos ante la Santa Sede y ahora es presidenta de la Academia Pontificia de Ciencias Sociales.
En la carta que esta semana dirigió a la universidad, Glendon recuerda al rector que los obispos pidieron en el año 2004 a las instituciones católicas que "no concedieran honores a aquellos que actúan sin respetar nuestros principios morales fundamentales", y que a tales personas "no se les deberían conceder premios, honores o plataformas que pudieran sugerir un apoyo a sus acciones".
"Esta petición, que en modo alguno implica un control o interferencia con la libertad de una institución para invitar y debatir con quien quiera, me parece tan razonable que no entiendo cómo una universidad católica puede no respetarla", indicó.
Os hago llegar el escrito completo una vez expresadas estas observaciones de Glendon, que me parecen más serenas. A mi entender el articulo que sigue, expresa la reacción de muchos cristianos, judios e intelectuales al respecto, quizá de forma un poco exagerada (aunque también es comprensible). De todas formas no comparto todas las observaciones, por ejemplo, la actitud de la Santa Sede al recibir a Nancy Pelosi.
Como hemos hecho en otras ocasiones, os animo a un diálogo e intercambio sereno de ideas, procurando no "crisparnos". En cualquier caso, muchísimas gracias al Cap. C.A.M. Hanily, a mi me ha hecho comprender la realidad de este suceso. Seguro que será el inicio de una interesante conversación. (En ¡No te lo pierdas! añado un enlace a un artículo sobre el tema).
RELIGION OR POLITICS Notre Dame/Obama
From the very beginning of all things God created he has placed them on this earth with a set of rules. Adam and Eve were given the rules they disobeyed them and received their punishment, Moses was given the rules for the tribes of Abraham who then disobeyed them and were given their punishment. After grievous flaunting of the rules there always follows a divine renewal like pressing the restart button on a locked up computer, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, the old testament cites many of these events, and as surely leaves many un-recorded.
Throughout man’s short history we have flaunted Gods’ will and paid the price, maybe its time that the restart button was pressed again.
Winston Churchill said it best when he quoted that those who did not learn from History were destined to re-live it.
In my humble opinion the biggest mistake man makes is a constant attempt to dilute or circumvent, or re-interpret the rules in order to reach a middle of the road solution democratically agreed by those in power. In this process all good beginnings come to a bad end.
The United States started out well with a well thought out constitution, which attempted to impart freedom & divide politics from imposing any specific state religion.
The underlying part of the Constitution which however saves it from being purely political is the part that states One Nation UNDER GOD with liberty and justice for all.
Leaving aside the Christianity, or Orthodox, or Jewish belief question we should be able to agree on the 10 commandments as a base point to continue on from, but unfortunately we now even seek to destroy the basics of God’s laws.
Obama is an abomination his beliefs are an abomination and his power as President of the United States is dangerous to human kind.
He Supports & promotes Partial Birth Abortion in order not to “punish children for a mistake they made in having sex “, this is a practice of killing the baby as it is being born as its head appears from the cervix.
He supports and promotes murder of that same child if the abortion “fails” and the baby is actually live born.
He supports and promotes experimentation in genetics and the farming of human fetuses for use therein.
He supports and promotes the idea that homosexuality is a genetic defect rather than a preference.
He supports and promotes abortion for minor children without parental consent or even notification.
He made executive orders requiring Catholic Hospitals and those who have conscientious objection to the whole abortion process be legally required to provide the service.
He is attempting to remove the funding from religious charities by promoting the tax code to require only 50% be tax free.
The preaching’s of several of his own Pastors and religious leaders of his church promote racist hatred.
He has many other Marxist beliefs and policies which are destructive but I limit myself herein to those which go completely against Gods Laws, and I am sure even so that I have missed a few.
Notre Dame Universities Invitation to this man is an abomination and I would ask all real Catholics in the Student body not to attend on this day.
Bishop John D’Arcy has stated he will not attend the graduation and I applaud him for that. It should follow that the Catholic Church withdraw publicly all support for this University, with perhaps even a papal response, and allow it to become totally state sponsored, if it wishes to sponsor State Politics.
It is up to our own religious leaders not to become even partially invested in legitimizing these people I was equally incensed when his holiness received Ms. Nancy Pelosi (a baptized “Catholic” and "Speaker of the House”) in the Vatican recently. There is more to be maintained by excommunicating such publicly anti Catholic Catholics than can ever be gained by appeasing them.
Capt. C.A.M. Hanily
From the very beginning of all things God created he has placed them on this earth with a set of rules. Adam and Eve were given the rules they disobeyed them and received their punishment, Moses was given the rules for the tribes of Abraham who then disobeyed them and were given their punishment. After grievous flaunting of the rules there always follows a divine renewal like pressing the restart button on a locked up computer, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, the old testament cites many of these events, and as surely leaves many un-recorded.
Throughout man’s short history we have flaunted Gods’ will and paid the price, maybe its time that the restart button was pressed again.
Winston Churchill said it best when he quoted that those who did not learn from History were destined to re-live it.
In my humble opinion the biggest mistake man makes is a constant attempt to dilute or circumvent, or re-interpret the rules in order to reach a middle of the road solution democratically agreed by those in power. In this process all good beginnings come to a bad end.
The United States started out well with a well thought out constitution, which attempted to impart freedom & divide politics from imposing any specific state religion.
The underlying part of the Constitution which however saves it from being purely political is the part that states One Nation UNDER GOD with liberty and justice for all.
Leaving aside the Christianity, or Orthodox, or Jewish belief question we should be able to agree on the 10 commandments as a base point to continue on from, but unfortunately we now even seek to destroy the basics of God’s laws.
Obama is an abomination his beliefs are an abomination and his power as President of the United States is dangerous to human kind.
He Supports & promotes Partial Birth Abortion in order not to “punish children for a mistake they made in having sex “, this is a practice of killing the baby as it is being born as its head appears from the cervix.
He supports and promotes murder of that same child if the abortion “fails” and the baby is actually live born.
He supports and promotes experimentation in genetics and the farming of human fetuses for use therein.
He supports and promotes the idea that homosexuality is a genetic defect rather than a preference.
He supports and promotes abortion for minor children without parental consent or even notification.
He made executive orders requiring Catholic Hospitals and those who have conscientious objection to the whole abortion process be legally required to provide the service.
He is attempting to remove the funding from religious charities by promoting the tax code to require only 50% be tax free.
The preaching’s of several of his own Pastors and religious leaders of his church promote racist hatred.
He has many other Marxist beliefs and policies which are destructive but I limit myself herein to those which go completely against Gods Laws, and I am sure even so that I have missed a few.
Notre Dame Universities Invitation to this man is an abomination and I would ask all real Catholics in the Student body not to attend on this day.
Bishop John D’Arcy has stated he will not attend the graduation and I applaud him for that. It should follow that the Catholic Church withdraw publicly all support for this University, with perhaps even a papal response, and allow it to become totally state sponsored, if it wishes to sponsor State Politics.
It is up to our own religious leaders not to become even partially invested in legitimizing these people I was equally incensed when his holiness received Ms. Nancy Pelosi (a baptized “Catholic” and "Speaker of the House”) in the Vatican recently. There is more to be maintained by excommunicating such publicly anti Catholic Catholics than can ever be gained by appeasing them.
Capt. C.A.M. Hanily
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