President Obama Receives Nobel Peace Prize. War on the Womb Continues

By Deacon Keith Fournier
10/9/2009
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

God spoke through the Prophet Jeremiah in warning many centuries ago 'Peace, Peace! they say, though there is no peace.'

Mother Teresa is ABSOLUTELY right. The greatest destroyer of Peace is Abortion. It is a war against the child. President Barack Obama Receives the Nobel Peace prize while the War on the Womb continues unabated.

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OSLO, Norway (Catholic Online) � The news Friday morning was nothing less than extraordinary. President Barack Obama was awarded the �Nobel Peace Prize�. The Associated Press was the first to break the story. In announcing the Award the committee said that it was being given to the President for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." They specifically pointed to his efforts to reach out to the Muslim world and bring an end to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. What makes the giving of this globally prestigious award most astounding, and what, in the words of the AP release �shocked Nobel observers� is that this new President had only been in office for two weeks before the Feb.1 deadline for nominations.

In its announcement the committee also said "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future�. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population." In its effusive praise of the President the committee continued with these words "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future� His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

This announcement comes just as the debate concerning the funding of abortion in the current versions of �Health Care Reform� in the United States has roused all of the defenders of the first Human Right,the foundational human right, the �mother� of all rights, the Right to Life, out of various degrees of lethargy. In fact, the opposition to this huge piece of legislation is finding its strongest resistance now coming from the U.S. Catholic Bishops. They have made it clear that they will vigorously oppose this legislation unless it unequivocally EXCLUDES the taking of the lives of innocent children in the womb, and rightly so.

There is a war on the womb in the United States of America and, sadly, this President fails to hear the cry of those whom Blessed Teresa of Calcutta rightly called the �poorest of the poor�, our first neighbors.

Now, that dear woman of such small physical stature - but utterly huge heart - the one whom the whole world still lovingly calls �Mother�, speaks to us prophetically from the grave. In truth she is still alive, speaking from within the fullness of joy she most certainly has received in the communion of love which she now shares with the Lord of Life and the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, whom she loves so completely. It was He, the Lord of Life and defender of all children, who came to us in the womb of a Holy Mother and from within that womb, where we now commit the most egregious war crimes, began His mission of true peace through real reconciliation. In His Incarnation, Jesus Christ, in His Sacred Humanity, shows us the utter evil of every procured abortion.

Mother Teresa was a most deserved recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She rightly accepted this prestigious award from the committee. In formally doing so she gave a speech on December 11, 1979 which speaks more loudly than anyone ever could to today�s news. It shines a spotlight of piercing truth on this rather incredible news. I have republished it in full underneath this article in our Related Stories. However, here are a selected few words from Mother:

��St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live. And so this is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us, it hurt him. And to make sure we remember his great love he made himself the bread of life to satisfy our hunger for his love. Our hunger for God, because we have been created for that love. We have been created in his image. We have been created to love and be loved, and then he has become man to make it possible for us to love as he loved us. He makes himself the hungry one - the naked one - the homeless one - the sick one - the one in prison - the lonely one - the unwanted one - and he says: You did it to me. Hungry for our love, and this is the hunger of our poor people. This is the hunger that you and I must find, it may be in our own home.

�I (will) never forget an opportunity I had in visiting a home where they had all these old parents of sons and daughters who had just put them in an institution and forgotten maybe. And I went there, and I saw in that home they had everything, beautiful things, but everybody was looking towards the ...

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1 - 10 of 47 Comments

Jean
3 years ago
Thanks Bulbajer
Bulbajer
3 years ago
Matt, Jean is actually the commentor on this who most often urges people to pray and also the least political.
Liz
3 years ago
"... but hates Obama merely because he is not anti-abortion." Troy, your statement is most telling. "Merely" is the operative word. Time to rethink your Catholicism. And, like someone else posted - what does Bush have to do with any of this? PS: Has Obama ended the war? Also, Congress & Senate have a lot to say with regard to continuing a war = where are they?
Ed Burke
3 years ago
Jean, the parallel with December 7th, 1941 and Pearl Harbor is that we sent Jimmy Doolittle and the B-25's to Bomb Tokyo after Pearl Harbor and eventually made defeating Japan unconditionally the goal, FDR did not send the bombers to Mexico City, or Africa.

The Bush response was to send the massive force of the US Military to . . . IRAQ, which had as much to do with 9-11 as Mexico or anyone in Africa did the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The Republicans still haven't entirely abandoned the attempt to invent one, even now. Thanks for the help, but they really don't need it.
Matt
3 years ago
Diane and Jean,

Don't you think you should pray for the president instead of criticizing him and trying to be political. I think we should look at what joins us together instead of what divides us. He said he is going to donate the money to Charity. Why not wait for him to donate the money before attacking him. Lets not be hypocrites. I am catholic but and against abortion, but as Mary says during her apparitions. We should pray for priests, so we should also pray for our leaders.
Nola
3 years ago
Seriously, have some of you not read the Bible? Jesus' parable about the house that was built on sand rather than solid foundation - it can't stand! That's why all issues for the Church come back to abortion. Abortion is the sand that our country is built on - if we can't even protect the most helpless of us all, then what else is there? Re-read that parable, re-read Mother Teresa's Nobel acceptance speech - and then maybe, maybe you'll finally get it.
Jean
3 years ago
Actually George Bush tried to keep our Conscience Clause in but Obama is attempting to get it out.

I would say George Bush did the right thing.

If you were President during 9/11 and you knew we were under attack which I might add was the 2nd attempt with the towers what would have been your call.

No one sees the parallels of of 9/11 with those of the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII?

(One ones earlier and the Head Security guy warned us of this but we never did anything to protect the country afterward.)

Anyway Im not arguing with anyone just making an attempt to justify America's actions during the time we were attacked.

Considering my father and great grandfather served during two wars, Ive had an amateur interest in why they happened.

Unfortunately we havent learned very much that I know of when we get attacked.

Personally I think this country reacted better than they did during WWII afterward.

This is just me as an amateur on history.

God Bless.
Diane
3 years ago
I want to email Mother Theresa's acceptance speech to Obama and the ones who made the award to Obama.

Every wk Obama attempts to destroy another Judeo-Christian virtue. Sometimes it is a daily chipping away at moral values. Yet he is still campaigning, spending money the U.S. doesn't have, refusing to make major decisions protecting our country, pushing false values, pushing abortion here and across the globe, taking away free speech, freedom of conscience, denying God's commandments, lying, (even to the Pope). We can't think of a less worthy person to receive such an award.

Why couldn't have missionaries in Africa, battling the effects of genocide, homelessness, malnutrition and hordes of dispossessed villagers been recognized? The million dollar award would have gone far to feed the sick, the diseased, the starving. Obama says it will go to charity.... but then , he lies. He'll prob give it to ACORN or the unions or other cohorts he is constantly paying off - Chicago spoils style.
J
3 years ago
Exactly Troy! I'm tired of our poor leadership in the Catholic Church. Its so depressing. Fr. Corapis talks tell all about our poor leadership.
Rob
3 years ago
I have to admit I roll my eyes when I read comments that try to shift the focus to a man who wasn't even mentioned in the article. What does George Bush have to do with that article? Nothing. Nice shift of focus there, but if that is all you have as an argument of defense of Obama's stand on abortion is to stamp your feet and say "George Bush George Bush George Bush" then you really have nothing to say at all.

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