Vatican paper calls Nobel Prize for Obama 'premature,' highlights his abortion stance

[Eucharisted]

Rome, Italy, Oct 12, 2009 / 01:33 pm (CNA).- The semi-official Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, has called the decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize premature and more of an invitation to choose peace through politics. The award is also questionable because of his position on various bio-ethics issues, especially abortion.

The article points out that “the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama has taken everyone somewhat by surprise, first and foremost the U.S. president himself.”

“During the last 90 years,” L’Osservatore noted, “the prize has never been awarded to a sitting U.S. president—when it was awarded to Jimmy Carter in 2002 he had been out of office already for some time—[but was] involved in politics and susceptible, therefore, to making a range of decisions related to peace.”

catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17363

Hypocrisy, thy name is CNA. First they say the newspaper isn’t the voice of the Church when an article contributor makes a rather embarassing claim about supporting Obama, and now this.

You know, it’d be much easier to just tell us who wrote the article that CNA is citing, and just quote them. But that’s not this news agency’s intentions. Its intentions is hypocrisy.

 

[Joe_5859]

Hypocrisy, thy name is CNA. First they say the newspaper isn’t the voice of the Church when an article contributor makes a rather embarassing claim about supporting Obama, and now this.

You know, it’d be much easier to just tell us who wrote the article that CNA is citing, and just quote them. But that’s not this news agency’s intentions. Its intentions is hypocrisy.

What is hypocritical about the article? I didn’t see them make the claim that LOsservatore Romano is the voice of the Church.

 

[manualman]

They appeared to correctly attribute the remarks to the Vatican NEWSPAPER.

The hubub some time back was over the increasingly common practice of citing LOR articles as “The Vatican reacted by stating that…”

Surely you see the difference? Articles published in the Vatican newspaper are NOT official Vatican pronouncements or policy statements. And it’s outright misleading to imply that they are. That does NOT mean nobody should ever read it or pay attention or PROPERLY cite them at times!

 

[livi]

A person who promotes abortion has no business with the Nobel Peace Prize.