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When “catholic” politicians are continually allowed to make comments like this that are in direct opposition to the Catholic faith our Bishops allow their God given authority to be usurped by obvious ignorance.  San Francisco Archbishop Niederauer needs to sack-up and do something about Nancy Pelosi and her comments or remove himself from the situation.  His authority does him no good if its not used when it should be.  Pelosi said she would meet with him prior to the election concerning her comments on “Meet the Press” about Catholic teaching on abortion.  Its obviously she either has no intention to do so or its priority is we’ll behind everything on her to-do list.

In addition to Niederauer where are his brother bishops?  If I’m screwing up my brother steps in to correct me and I do the same for him.  Collegiality needs to be thrown out in these instances.  Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House, her comments and ignorance plays across this country, just because she resides in San Francisco a few days out of the year doesn’t mean her lack of understanding the Catholic faith doesn’t affect all of us.

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There is a hope in our country that Barak Obama’s presidency will move us beyond the issue of race.  Unfortunately I don’t think it will be the case.  I consider the notion of “moving beyond the issue of race” being the point when we don’t even bring up someone’s race as part of the discussion.  Obama’s race appears to be the main focus of conversation for the majority of the mainstream media.  The press will point out at every event for the next few months, and probably for the remainder of his 1st term, about how he is the first African-American to do this or that. 

Moving beyond race means were are more interested in the substance of what’s happening verses the race of the one that’s involved. I don’t care that Obama is considered to be black.  I don’t care that his mother was considered white.  To move beyond race is to move beyond race as a side subject that is brought up time and time again.  We all have eyes that can all see that Obama is African-American why does the press make a story out of the obvious.  Tell me something I don’t know.  Focus in on the issues.  Yet when the press does move beyond race the issue they focus on is “Hope & Change” a term that can mean anything to anyone.  Its feel good topic and many would prefer that we don’t define it as it may remove the “Hope & Change” they are looking for.

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Many in politics have dubbed Obama as the “Messiah” of politics.  Comparing him to Jesus as modern day “savior” of the people.  I guess he is supposedly saving them from the Bush Administration as though George W Bush can hold anyone down. 

Just as when the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, came he was not what the people expected.  They expected to be saved from the Romans, not from their sins.  They expected everything thing to be given to them as the they were the “chosen people”, instead Jesus instructed them to take up their cross and to follow him down the narrow path of salvation.  Jesus was the true Messiah but he was not the Messiah that the Jews expected. 

I expect that so too today Barak Obama will not be the “Messiah” that the people who voted for him are expecting.

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