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The world’s most powerful political leader and the world’s most powerful religious leader will meet for the first time Thursday, when President Barack Obama visits Pope Francis at the Vatican. Francis, who was elected pope a little more than a year ago, has captured world headlines by turning the Roman Catholic Church’s focus back to serving the disadvantaged and away from issues like abortion and gay marriage, and by taking action to address church corruption.
Obama has been public about his respect for the pope, particularly admiring the faith leader’s focus on social justice. Even though the president is not Catholic, Joshua DuBois – the former director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships – says Obama began his community organizing career in a role with the Catholic Church. “Really from his earliest days it’s been a connection with the Catholic Church and an awareness of Catholic social teaching,” DuBois says.
The first African-American U.S. president and the first Latin American pope share similar views on social issues like income inequality and immigration. “A good deal of the economic agenda of President Obama and of the Democratic Party is consonant with Catholic social teaching,” says the Rev. Paul Sullins, a professor of sociology at The Catholic University of America.
Seventy-one percent of U.S. Catholics said Francis marks a “major change of direction for the Catholic Church” – 68 percent of those respondents said the change was for the better.
President Barack Obama to Meet Pope Francis at the Vatican - US News
The worlds most powerful political leader and the worlds most powerful religious leader will meet for the first time Thursday, when President Barack Obama visits Pope Francis at the Vatican. Francis, who was elected pope a little more than a year ago, has captured world headlines by turning the Roman Catholic Churchs focus back to serving the disadvantaged and away from issues like abortion and gay marriage, and by taking action to address church corruption.
Obama has been public about his respect for the pope, particularly admiring the faith leaders focus on social justice. Even though the president is not Catholic, Joshua DuBois the former director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships says Obama began his community organizing career in a role with the Catholic Church. Really from his earliest days its been a connection with the Catholic Church and an awareness of Catholic social teaching, DuBois says.
The first African-American U.S. president and the first Latin American pope share similar views on social issues like income inequality and immigration. A good deal of the economic agenda of President Obama and of the Democratic Party is consonant with Catholic social teaching, says the Rev. Paul Sullins, a professor of sociology at The Catholic University of America.
So, that's what is happening today. And I am definitely not in the minority in my perceptions of this new pope.
Seventy-one percent of U.S. Catholics said Francis marks a major change of direction for the Catholic Church 68 percent of those respondents said the change was for the better.
I'm sure it is an honor for the pope to meet President Obama. Not many popes get to meet the messiah
Maybe the Pope and Obama can reform the RCC into a religion where anything goes. People are fallible there is no way they can take responsibility for their actions. Abortion is just getting rid of the problem as Obama called it. Nothing more then removing a clump of cancerous tissue. Divorce is just a fact of life, a fact that people don't make good decisions and then want a golden parachute to get out of their sworn duty, so middle ages.
Yes, a religion of no guilt except if a person doesn't tithe enough, you know just like the federal government.
Let's have a religion that doesn't shoot for the best in people and then forgive them when they fail. Let's have a religion where no one fails thus no one has to feel bad.
Here is something Obama said about abortion:
Undecided on whether life begins at conception
Q: Do you personally believe that life begins at conception?
A: This is something that I have not come to a firm resolution on. I think its very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I dont presume to know the answer to that question. What I know is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when were having these debates.
But yet he supports aborting that to which he has not decided is life or not. Wow, and the left wonders why we think Obama is a two faced liar.
Here is what he really thinks:
Look, I got two daughters 9 years old and 6 years old, he said. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I dont want them punished with a baby. I dont want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesnt make sense to not give them information.
So, becoming pregnant is the same as getting STDs. And who BTW is doing this punishment?
Yeah the Pope should meet with him as he should with all sinners. Hopefully the Pope won't just focus on "income inequality" and lecture Obama on his wayward sin.
Self -important lefties "need to acknowledge" that their 'suggestions' about changing a billion people's faith at their insistence are completely irrelevant.
Self -important lefties "need to acknowledge" that their 'suggestions' about changing a billion people's faith at their insistence are completely irrelevant.
It is an opportunity for two religious icons to exchange ideas
What does the Pope have to lose?
Self -important lefties "need to acknowledge" that their 'suggestions' about changing a billion people's faith at their insistence are completely irrelevant.
It is an opportunity for two religious icons to exchange ideas
What does the Pope have to lose?
You're still not clever or funny, Chuckles. You just look more pathetic with every attempt.
It is an opportunity for two religious icons to exchange ideas
What does the Pope have to lose?
You're still not clever or funny, Chuckles. You just look more pathetic with every attempt.
The Pope is blessed to meet with our messiah
