Comments for Obama’s First Moments, First Misteachings at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/obamas-first-moments-first-misteachings.html#comment-300 Photoshopped history is, of course, a progressive specialty. But beyond that, is the sour and disatisfied culture found everywhere on the left. Below the headline in USA Today after the election was this phrase: "a racial barrier falls." "A" racial barrier, not "the" racial barrier -- after all, Sen. Obama had just been elected President of the United States of America. If there is another "glass ceillng," what is above it? Catholics would appreciate the arrogance, but the left? - Graham Combs Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:55:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/obamas-first-moments-first-misteachings.html#comment-298 I would like to thank Mr. MacLean for that apt, lovely entry--which will send me back to that fine encyclical. We wife had put a picture of Leo XIII in our kitchen, and we should probably add some excerpts from his writings. - Hadley Arkes Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:19:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/obamas-first-moments-first-misteachings.html#comment-290 Without the Declaration of Independence, there goes my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness argument against FOCA. How now to argue fundamental human "rights"? As is, I am accused of forcing "a heartless religious agenda" even without explicitly stating the truth that moral law is written onto hearts by our Creator? Apparently the fathers' self-evident truths have now too tumbled into the black hole of relativism. Excuse me while I go and regroup... and pray. - Carol Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:26:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/obamas-first-moments-first-misteachings.html#comment-292 One is reminded of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum: When a society is perishing, the wholesome advice to give to those who would restore it is to call it to the principles from which it sprang; for the purpose and perfection of an association is to aim at and to attain that for which it is formed, and its efforts should be put in motion and inspired by the end and object which originally gave it being. Hence, to fall away from its primal constitution implies disease; to go back to it, recovery (§27).’ - Stephen MacLean Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:50:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/obamas-first-moments-first-misteachings.html#comment-288 All the more reason the recent media lovefest over Obama=Lincoln is so absurd. Obama is no Lincoln. - Gunnar Gundersen Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:18:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/obamas-first-moments-first-misteachings.html#comment-287 A call from the bishops for repentance, penance, and prayer would, I believe, meet with a vigorous response from all people of good will in the Church and beyond. Do we truly trust the power of the Holy Spirit - can the arm of the Lord still save? Prayers after every Mass for the President-elect to be guided by the Holy Spirit and for an end to abortion can bring about the changes we desire. - LWS Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:50:33 +0100