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1. Kasoy

   9 months ago

   That dinner will be like a presidential forum just like any primary debate that we have seen so far. Each speaker will be able to state his/her position in some important issues. This will give every voter a chance to understand where each speaker stands in some important issues. I like to hear what Romney and Obama have to say about contraception/abortion, gay marriage, religious liberty and freedom of conscience. It's another chance to see where they stand.

2. jesse

   9 months ago

   Levi gave a great feast for Jesus and many tax collector came to his house and took their place at the table with other people. Then the Pharisees and their fellow teachers complained to Jesus' disciples, 'How is that you eat and drink with tax collector and other sinners?' But Jesus spoke up, "Healthy people don't need a doctor, but sick people do. I have come to call to repentance; I call sinners, not the righteous.
   Luke 5; 29-32.
   Dear Cardinal, thank you so much that you show us the living image of our Jesus. God bless you for being His true disciple. Amen

3. michael

   9 months ago

   For the past few months, the bishops and other enthusiatic Catholic priests and layfolk have been crying out WE WILL NOT COMPLY! We have seen "hollywood" like commericials on You Tube telling everyone that this November Catholics will come out in force when put to the TEST OF FIRE. And now we are being told that Cardinal Dolan's invitation to Obama is a proper "reaching out"...the beginning of yet another dialogue for we don't want to be judgmental. The bishops and yes most Catholics in this country are not serious and the Obama administration and the state are laughing at our weakness and our lack of unity. Cardinal Dolan...aka, the COACH...has failed his team...he has deflated the members of Holy Church. But his compromise may get him more face time and another breakfast at the White House. His actions are no better than Georgetown inviting Sebelius or ND inviting Obama. This fortnight of freedom did not unite us with conviction but proved to be a joke...Obamacare passed constitutional muster despite our prayers and penance with a Catholic giving the deciding vote. The fortnight of freedom has exposed us as being empty. We are under the wrath of God...face the facts...time to make reparation.

4. Rob

   9 months ago

   I've been doing a bible study on forgiveness. An important part of this teaching has been the concept of repaying your enemies with love. I think it's a part of the gospel that we need to pray a lot about because all I have seen lately is anything but that. We are quick to want to exclude, distance and destroy. But I see now charity.
   
   I think the good cardinal is living the gospel and is more concerned about Obama's conversion than his desctruction, as we all should be. Not sure how that is supposed to happen when all we can seem to do is shun the man. I will pray that while in the presence of this good cardinal and the faithful that their witness will plant the seeds of conversion. Obama, like of all of us is a sinner in need of God's mercy.
   
   

5. marichu

   9 months ago

   seeing presidents in audience with the pope was never an issue because the purposes and reasons are clear. either they were there for just saying "hello" or they were there for issues that requires resolutions with papal opinion. the backdrops are the papal chair, empty long table for discussion and barren walls behind. the case of obama partying with dolan is too far to compare with sumptuous foods, sparkling wines and dancing lights around. to meet obama is never a question. dolan going to the white house for an audience or for a dialogue will never be questioned. its the question of timing. of insults. of incomprehensible senses.

6. Judy Claar

   9 months ago

   Vance: Informative insightful post! Telling it, and calling it, just how it is. Some people do not like the black and white. They are more for the gray area. But here, there is no gray. Just the choice of black or white. Like heaven or hell.
   Our Holy Father knows which side he is on. As does Cardinal Dolan. Sunday Blessings...

7. robert matzinger

   9 months ago

   A picture is worth one thousand words. Our Cardinal Dolan inviting and sitting next to the world's leading abortionist and adovocate of gay marriage is not an endorsement of Obamas policies? Who is Cardinal Dolan kidding? Or is he just that naive?
   
   Pictures of this event with Cardinal Dolan and Obama side-by-side will be used by Obama and the democrats to indicate that there is no longer any rift or disagreements remaining between Obama and the Catholic Church and to gain Catholic voters.
   
   Where does Cardinal Dolan really stand? I just don't get it.

8. rafaelmarie

   9 months ago

   
   
   Um, Cardinal Dolan...
   
   Obama Campaign Speech: No Compromise on Abortion Mandate
   During a campaign stop in Denver, Colorado with pro-abortion activist Sandra Fluke, pro-abortion President Barack Obama refused to back down on the HHS mandate his administration put in place forcing religious groups to cover abortion-causing drugs.
   
   “Let me tell you—there’s nothing conservative about a government that prevents a woman from making her own health decisions,” he said. Let me tell you something, Denver—I don’t think your boss should control the care you get,” Obama added, referring to the desire by religious groups to not be forced to violate their own consciences. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/08/obama-campaign-speech-no-compromise-on-abortion-mandate/
   

9. KarlVDH

   9 months ago

   Come on, guys... LENIN? Seriously? Ok, we don't have to like the guy, but unless the President starts having his political opponents- and I mean about eight million of them- arrested, tortured and exterminated, comparing Obama to Lenin is WAY over-the-top... itmakes about as much sense as Stacey suggesting I'm a Marxist... because I think the Cardinal did the right thing. Take a deep breath, folks. No one honestly sees thi as an endorsement of Obama. It IS an acknowledgement of the power and prestige of the United States Presidency, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office, and the FACT is, if we're serious about our charities AND THE REAL, LIVE PEOPLE IN NEED we say we want to help in Christ's name, then what we think POLITICALLY shouldn't matter at all. The Cardinal was RIGHT.

10. Marsha

    9 months ago

    Amen, sister.

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