(CNSNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI warned a group of Catholic bishops from the United States in a speech at the Vatican last week that some cultural trends in the U.S. are “a threat not just to Christian faith, but also to humanity itself.”
The pope made the observation Thursday, Jan. 19, as he addressed a group of bishops from the mid-Atlantic region, including Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Archbishop Timothy C. Broglio, who leads the archdiocese for the military services. The bishops were in Rome for their “ad limina” visits, which they are required to periodically make to the Vatican to meet with the pope.
The U.S. Catholic bishops have been in an escalating conflict with President Barack Obama and his administration over a number of administration efforts that curtail religious freedom in the United States. Among these are the argument the administation is making in federal court likening opposition to same-sex unions to racial discrimination and the Obamacare regulation recenlty issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that requires all health insurance plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions. Because the Obamacare law also requires all American to buy health insurance, the new HHS regulation presents Catholics with the choice of either acting against the law or against the moral teachings of their church.
“For her part, the Church in the United States is called, in season and out of season, to proclaim a Gospel which not only proposes unchanging moral truths but proposes them precisely as the key to human happiness and social prospering,” the pope said.
“To the extent that some current cultural trends contain elements that would curtail the proclamation of these truths, whether constricting it within the limits of a merely scientific rationality, or suppressing it in the name of political power or majority rule, they represent a threat not just to Christian faith, but also to humanity itself and to the deepest truth about our being and ultimate vocation, our relationship to God,” said the pope.
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According to the CONSTITUTION OF THE US OF A, it states we are to have FREEOM OF RELIGION? Does what the Annointed One O B U M E R seem to think he can tell us now what Church we can attend? I don;’t think so, he will have a real fight on his hands if he tries this.
The BIBLE BELT put this guy out of his misery at the next election.
If we think the OCCUY GROUP activities are bad, wait until this come to the top.
Obama is a Muslim , Pope Benedict XVI is right on smashing him.
God’s law will take superiority over man’s law. The Bible offers believers two separate occasions when man’s law must be violated: 1) When government demands men do something God has forbidden, and 2) When government demands men do not do something God has commanded.
Obama feeds on power and control, he is trying to be dictator, but when he goes against organized religion such as Catholicism, he will lose the battle.