Category Archives: Catholic Politicians
Barnard: The Embryo Troubles of Obama’s Top Doctor
Prof. Justin Barnard (associate professor of philosophy and director of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee) reflects on Public Discourse on the fact that many are pointing to Obama’s pick of an Evangelical to head the National Institutes of Health as a sign of the president’s willingness [...]
Joyce Appleby, Catholic Conscience, and the Supreme Court
Matthew J. Franck
In a week that included the murderous attack of a crazed anti-Semite at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and the reported complaints of President Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright that “them Jews” in the White House won’t let him talk to the president, it took a distinguished historian of early America to round [...]
May 28: C-Span Live Stream of Robert George and Douglas Kmiec Exchange
C-SPAN will be covering the moderated discussion between Professor Robert P. George (Princeton University) and Professor Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School) to take place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The discussion with focus on “The Obama Administration and the Sanctity of Human Life: Is There a Common Ground on Life Issues? What [...]
An Open Letter to President Obama’s Pro-Life Supporters
Friends:
We share with you a commitment to the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family. It is for this reason that we oppose abortion, embryo-destructive research, euthanasia, and every other form of direct killing of innocent human beings. We believe that these practices are grave injustices that no society should [...]
Debunking the Sebelius Abortion Decline
By Michael J. New, University of Alabama
President Obama’s nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services has set off a firestorm of controversy in Catholic political circles. A number of Catholic organizations, citing Sebelius’ steadfast support for legal abortion and her cozy relationship with notorious late term abortionist George Tiller, [...]
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann on the Sebelius Nomination
Excerpts from Archbishop Joseph Naumann’s column in The Leaven archdiocesan newspaper published March 6, 2009. Read the entire column at www.theleaven.com
The appointment of Governor Sebelius as the Secretary of Health and Human Services concerns me on many levels. With her history of support for legalized abortion and embryonic stem cell research, it is troubling the [...]
Web Briefing: Sebelius, Abortion, and the HHS
American’s United for Life: The Case Against Sebelius – Clarke D. Forsythe and Denise M. Burke
First Things: The Sebelius Challenge – George Weigel
Update: Pelosi and Benedict XVI
Breitbart.com (AP): Pope: Catholic politicians must protect life
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday told U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who supports abortion rights, that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life “at all stages of its development,” the Vatican said.
Vatican City State: Official Statement from the Holy See
Office of the Speaker [...]