Pope Surprises Obama with Gift: Vatican document on right to life and bioethics
Pope Benedict XVI received President Barack Obama this afternoon in his private library, and after 36 minutes of private conversation, the pair emerged without providing any details about their topics of conversation. Nevertheless, the Holy See revealed that the Pope gave Obama an “unannounced gift”--a Vatican document on bioethics and the right to life.
"The G8 has been very productive, 20 billion dollars have been allocated [to poor countries]; that's something concrete," President Obama told the Pope when he asked about the summit, as photographers and journalists were ushered out of the Papal library.
I wonder how much of that 20 billion dollars will be spent on "family planning" AKA birth control, forced abortions, etc. which in reality is actually given to Planned Parenthood for eugenics purposes? How much will actually be spent 0n food, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities?
The meeting between the Pope and the U.S. President started at 4:25 p.m. local time, after an unusually short meeting of ten minutes with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
After the private conversation, and again in front of the cameras, President Obama gave the Pontiff a stole that was drapped upon the body of St. John Neumann from 1988 to 2007. The Pope instead presented the president with a mosaic portraying St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Basilica, and an autographed copy of his latest social encyclical “Caritas in Veritate.”
“I will have something to read on the plane,” President Obama joked after receiving the encyclical. Read the entire article at CNA.
"The G8 has been very productive, 20 billion dollars have been allocated [to poor countries]; that's something concrete," President Obama told the Pope when he asked about the summit, as photographers and journalists were ushered out of the Papal library.
I wonder how much of that 20 billion dollars will be spent on "family planning" AKA birth control, forced abortions, etc. which in reality is actually given to Planned Parenthood for eugenics purposes? How much will actually be spent 0n food, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities?
The meeting between the Pope and the U.S. President started at 4:25 p.m. local time, after an unusually short meeting of ten minutes with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
After the private conversation, and again in front of the cameras, President Obama gave the Pontiff a stole that was drapped upon the body of St. John Neumann from 1988 to 2007. The Pope instead presented the president with a mosaic portraying St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Basilica, and an autographed copy of his latest social encyclical “Caritas in Veritate.”
“I will have something to read on the plane,” President Obama joked after receiving the encyclical. Read the entire article at CNA.
What a perfect gift to give him. Hopefully Obama, while misguided is a man who sincerely seeks the truth. If so, he will read it and perhaps experience conversion. Stranger things have happened. Come Holy spirit.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much of that $20 Billion comes from the US?
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