South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford says don’t bail me out.
Washington is short on cash these days and will borrow every dime of the $150 billion to $300 billion for the “stimulus” bill now being worked on. Federal appetites may know no bounds. But the federal government’s ability to borrow is not limitless. Already, our nation’s unfunded liabilities total $52 trillion — about $450,000 per household. There’s something very strange about issuing debt to solve a problem caused by too much debt.
Sanford for President in 2012?
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There have been several news reports about the priest who told Obama voters they should not take communion. Turns out the priest also wrote the very best thing published in a church bulletin that Feast of St. John Lateran.
“Dear Friends in Christ,
We the People have spoken, and the 44th President of the United States will be
Barack Hussein Obama. This election ends a political process that started two
years ago and which has revealed deep and bitter divisions within the United
States and also within the Catholic Church in the United States. This division is
sometimes called a “Culture War,” by which is meant a heated clash between
two radically different and incompatible conceptions of how we should order our
common life together, the public life that constitutes civil society. And the chief
battleground in this culture war for the past 30 years has been abortion, which
one side regards as a murderous abomination that cries out to Heaven for
vengeance and the other side regards as a fundamental human right that must be
protected in laws enforced by the authority of the state. Between these two
visions of the use of lethal violence against the unborn there can be no
negotiation or conciliation, and now our nation has chosen for its chief executive
the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate
or to run for president. We must also take note of the fact that this election was
effectively decided by the votes of self-described (but not practicing) Catholics,
the majority of whom cast their ballots for President-elect Obama.
In response to this, I am obliged by my duty as your shepherd to make two
observations:
1. Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits
constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do
so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under
the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy
Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of
Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.
2. Barack Obama, although we must always and everywhere disagree with him
over abortion, has been duly elected the next President of the United States, and
after he takes the Oath of Office next January 20th, he will hold legitimate
authority in this nation. For this reason, we are obliged by Scriptural precept to
pray for him and to cooperate with him whenever conscience does not bind us
otherwise. Let us hope and pray that the responsibilities of the presidency and
the grace of God will awaken in the conscience of this extraordinarily gifted man
an awareness that the unholy slaughter of children in this nation is the greatest
threat to the peace and security of the United States and constitutes a clear and
present danger to the common good. In the time of President Obama’s service to
our country, let us pray for him in the words of a prayer found in the Roman
Missal:
God our Father, all earthly powers must serve you. Help our President-elect,
Barack Obama, to fulfill his responsibilities worthily and well. By honoring and
striving to please you at all times, may he secure peace and freedom for the
people entrusted to him. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever.”
God bless this holy and brave priest.
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