Novak Fed Up with Vatican Newspaper: "We asked Rome for Bread they Give us Stones"

[thereseozi]

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09052603.html

Novak Fed Up with Vatican Newspaper: "We asked Rome for Bread they Give us Stones"

By Hilary White

NEW YORK, May 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A recent string of “star struck teenage” articles praising US President Barack Obama by the Vatican daily newspaper is scandalizing Catholics around the world, according to a prominent American conservative commentator. Michael Novak, a US Catholic writer, philosopher and diplomat, wrote on the website of the National Review magazine today that the editors of L’Osservatore Romano have failed to grasp either “the full threat Obama poses for the American Catholic conscience” or the “immense scandal” they are causing the Church by praising him.

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Novak concludes by asking, “Why on earth, then, does L’Osservatore Romano side with the abortionists, and against the besieged, struggling minority of churchgoing Catholics who find abortion abhorrent, and an intrinsic and unrationalizable evil?”

He laments, “We ask Rome for bread, and L’Osservatore Romano gives us stones.”

 

[mark_a]

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09052603.html

Novak Fed Up with Vatican Newspaper: "We asked Rome for Bread they Give us Stones"

By Hilary White

NEW YORK, May 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A recent string of “star struck teenage” articles praising US President Barack Obama by the Vatican daily newspaper is scandalizing Catholics around the world, according to a prominent American conservative commentator. Michael Novak, a US Catholic writer, philosopher and diplomat, wrote on the website of the National Review magazine today that the editors of L’Osservatore Romano have failed to grasp either “the full threat Obama poses for the American Catholic conscience” or the “immense scandal” they are causing the Church by praising him.

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Novak concludes by asking, “Why on earth, then, does L’Osservatore Romano side with the abortionists, and against the besieged, struggling minority of churchgoing Catholics who find abortion abhorrent, and an intrinsic and unrationalizable evil?”

He laments, “We ask Rome for bread, and L’Osservatore Romano gives us stones.”

I guess someone had to say it!!

 

[LoveJesus]

I’m confused. It seems as though L’Osservatore Romano is the official Vatican newspaper when it puts out articles against Obama…but when it puts out articles neutral/for Obama, it’s the unofficial paper of the Vatican. So which is it?

 

[Havard]

My understanding is that L’Osservatore Romano is not “official”, but that it is an instrument in relaying the teachings of the Church, which many at the Vatican have both utilized and praised.

Also, I think Vatican representatives prefer not to criticize the President per se, but rather his agenda and his actions. While not all of the President’s actions are objectionable, certain important ones surely are. So perhaps that is what you are seeing.

 

[cathgal]

Also, I think Vatican representatives prefer not to criticize the President per se, but rather his agenda and his actions. While not all of the President’s actions are objectionable, certain important ones surely are. So perhaps that is what you are seeing.

Best they just shut up about the whole Obama thing. All it does is create confusion among Catholics and the stupid ones continue to feel justified in their voting for the man.