Cardinal's Warning: "We will know Gethsame"
In a lecture on Thursday at DC's Catholic University of America, His Emminence James Cardinal Francis Stafford , a native of Baltimore and former archbishop of Denver, scholarly Vatican official offered an ominous impression of the state of our country. Cardinal Stafford criticized President-elect Barack Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,“ and said he campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform" Thursday night in Keane Auditorium during his lecture “Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II: Being True in Body and Soul.“ “Because man is a sacred element of secular life,” Stafford remarked, “man should not be held to a supreme power of state, and a person’s life cannot ultimately be controlled by government.” "For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden,” Stafford said, comparing America’s future with Obama as president to Jesus’ agony in the garden. “On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake.” Cardinal St...