A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Topic: Barack Obama
Today’s Catholic must-reads: 08/08/12
Posted on Wednesday, 8 August 2012 Tags: Archdiocese of Detroit, Barack Obama, Cardinal Francis George, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Mario Ancic, Norcia, Order of Preachers, St Dominic
Let’s pray the Fortnight for Freedom helps Barack Obama change his mind about the contraceptive mandate
Posted on Monday, 25 June 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, contraception mandate, Fortnight for Freedom, the pill
Pregnancy is not a disease, and the pill should not be a part of any health insurance policy
The clash between Obama and the Catholic Church, as seen by the BBC
Posted on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, BBC Radio 4, contraception mandate, Heart and Soul, religious freedom
The heart and soul of one particular Radio 4 programme was not on the side of the bishops
The irresistible force of modern ‘rights’ meets the immovable object of the Catholic Church
Posted on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, contraception mandate
President Obama’s contraception mandate has opened a new front in the culture war
Barack Obama’s views on marriage did not ‘evolve’
Posted on Thursday, 10 May 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, Iain Duncan Smith, Mormon, same-sex marriage
The US president was waiting for the public mood to change before supporting gay marriage
Cardinal Dolan beats Lady Gaga and Obama in Time’s Person of the Year
Posted on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Lady Gaga
The cardinal received more than 42,000 votes
Mormonism is not a Christian religion
Posted on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, Mormons, Rick Santorum, US presidential elections
Mormons live exemplary lives but their religion has nothing to do with Christianity
Secularist attacks on the Catholic faith get worse, on both sides of the Atlantic: here it’s the TUC; in the US (where at least there’s a fightback) it’s Obama
Posted on Monday, 27 February 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, Brendan Barber, Catholic schools, EWTN, Health Care Act, homosexuality, Jason Evert, Michael Gove, Michael Warsaw, Mother Angelica, sex education, TUC
Now, Mother Angelica has drawn her sword: watch out!
Will Obama really retreat over his edict that Catholic institutions must provide contraception? Probably not. And how will US Catholics vote then?
Posted on Friday, 10 February 2012 Tags: Barack Obama, contraception, Health Care Act, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, The Week
I suspect that the answer is deeply depressing
Catholics for Romney surely now has lift-off, with the announcement as his vice-presidential candidate of a faithful and pugnaciously pro-life Catholic
Paul Ryan, Romney pointedly announced, is ‘a faithful Catholic’ who ‘believes in the worth and dignity of every human life’