For many of us, PRO-LIFE means be confidents expecting a NEW LIFE as promised for the same JESUSCHRIST, he has the authority to make us a NEW CREATION, even today we are NEW CREATION if we stay away of controversial issues like abortion, health care, gays marriages, "wars again terror', invasions to other countries, and be associates with THE WORLD. That means A NEW ORDER, following the footsteps of THE KING, being kind, lovers, mercyifull, that shows us as PRO-LIFE.
Where is that law? into our hearts because we learned what the gospel means, that really invites to others to see to the sky and say: THANKS GOD FOR GIVE US YOUR ONLY SON AS TEACHER, WE BORN AGAIN ANY TIME WE HAVE A NEW DAY TO SHOW YOUR MERCY. be PRO-LIFE you too and show you, read the gospel LIVE THE GOSPEL, and let to others to burn their ocious with their disputes that make DARKNESS ignoring the God's plan of salvation, they are there to see the difference.
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The Lessons of Notre Dame
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He might have reassured the Catholic community, beyond a passing phrase, that new regulations governing health-care providers will contain strong clauses protecting the consciences of doctors and nurses who find abortion evil. American Catholics, after all, operate the largest private-hospital system in the world.
As a political gesture, he might have announced a White House liaison to American Catholics. A hundred days into his presidency, there is no one in that post.
Above all, he could have clarified his stand on the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), a bill that would remove all state and local restrictions on abortion. As a candidate, Obama declared his support for FOCA; since then he has said that it is no longer high on his list of legislative priorities.
To be fair, the president was intent on speaking directly to the day's graduates. His call to public service connected with younger Catholics who see in him a president whose goals resonate with many of the church's traditions of social justice. Still, the question persists: after all the exemplary good will, after all the "fair-minded words," as the president called them, what did Notre Dame achieve by honoring of Obama?
For one thing, the university validated the view that American Catholics are not inclined to be single-issue voters; like other Americans, they recognize that this president confronts many pressing problems that concern them as citizens. For another, it demonstrated that Catholic universities do not lose their religious identity—rather, they enhance it—by respectfully engaging those who differ from Catholic teachings.
Finally, the frank words of Father Jenkins, not to mention the weeks of turmoil on and off the campus, should serve to alert the president and his White House staff that they have work to do in reassuring American Catholics that their views are taken seriously. In 2004, the majority of Catholic voters refused to support one of their own, John Kerry, largely because of his wobbly pro-choice positions. Exit polls last November showed that Catholics supported Obama despite his.
The message of Notre Dame is that thoughtful Catholics wish this president well. They will work with him if he will work with them. The courtesies of the president's day at Notre Dame were a reassuring start. They seemed to signal a willingness to solidify common ground against intractable partisans on the ideological left and right. Will the center hold? Much depends, I think, on whom President Obama nominates to replace Judge David Souter on the Supreme Court. And in the longer run, where the funding of abortion fits in with the president's promised health-care reform.
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