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Obama lies about topics of discussion with Pope Francis

March 31, 2014

On March 27, President Obama met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, but the topics of discussion remain in dispute. Whatever was talked about, it’s hard to imagine that the pontiff could win over Obama in areas where they disagree, such as religious liberty and human rights for the unborn.
In 2009, President Obama went to Rome to meet with now-Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, but it’s difficult to see where the conversation had much effect on many of his administration’s policies.
Flash forward to 2013, and the Obama administration was trying to force the Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the elderly, to accept insurance that provides birth control.
Just to be clear, they’re nuns – Catholic nuns. To anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Church doctrine, that was obviously a non-starter for several reasons. Yet that reality didn’t seem to deter HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who was raised a Catholic (although the current state of her faith is unclear at best) and therefore should know better.
The contraception-mandate part of Obamacare – interpreted by American Catholic bishops as as a frontal assault on the First Amendment’s assurance of freedom of religion – is still matriculating through the Supreme Court. Yet Obama has been trying to woo Catholic support since his community-organizing days in Chicago. Luckily for him, some Catholics still reflexively vote for Democrats, largely based on social-justice concerns (and a lingering idolatry centered on John F. Kennedy).
However, Obama’s enthusiastic support of contraception and abortion-on-demand – including his passionate attack as an Illinois state senator on the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) in that state, intended to mandate medical care for babies that survive late-term abortions – would seem to preclude support from any orthodox Catholic.