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...Ganswein, disclosed that there was one item added to the list of gifts for Obama: "Dignitas Personae" ("The Dignity of a Person"), a Vatican document released in December that lays out its latest stance on biomedical ethics. "It can help the President better understand the position of the Catholic Church," said Ganswein. (Read "The Pope on the World Economy: Prophets, Not Profits...
Patrick Whelan, head of the Catholic Democrats organization in Boston, believes that the Pope's particular emphasis on bioethics may have been due to the recent uproar in the U.S. Catholic Church over the President's invitation to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame. Some Catholic bishops opposed to the invitation because of Obama's stance on abortion and other ethical issues had hoped in vain that the Vatican would join the fray. "There was a feeling that [the Pope] didn't back them up over Notre Dame," said Whelan. "He wanted to show them that...
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told reporters after the audience that it was important for the Pope to be clear about the Church's stance on ethical issues. "It would be ambiguous to hide or minimize what we believe," he said. "It's not meant to be divisive or polemical." Lombardi added that the Pope told him that Obama "explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions and to listen to the Church's concerns on moral issues...
Understanding Mormonism Re your report "The Storm Over the Mormons," on the issue of Proposal 8 in California [June 22]. Indeed, the LDS Church went to great lengths against same-sex marriages in California. However, the church is no longer as monolithic as it likes to depict itself. Many LDS members in California joined the other side, supporting the right to marry without discrimination. Also, in the International Church, as the LDS Church is called beyond the U.S. and Canada, the issue is viewed differently. Morals are the legitimate domain of a church, but any public action...
...feel good that you can be going to synagogue or church and listen to me, and nobody is going to be embarrassed by the language that I use, the innuendo. It's just not my style ... Quite frankly, I think we're good for America." - On his family-friendly radio style. (The Chicago Tribune, June...