{"id":6241,"date":"2014-03-25T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:06:50","slug":"vaticans-chief-justice-call-obama-hostile-toward-christian-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"Vatican’s Chief Justice Call Obama "Hostile Toward Christian Civilization""},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how much the Vatican’s Chief Justice holds sway in terms of official church policy, or how much his opinion reflects the position of the Catholic church, but I thought I’d pass this along<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Polonia Christiana magazine \u2013and transcribed by Life Site News<\/a> \u2014 Cardinal Raymond Burke said that Obama \u201cpromotes anti-life and anti-family policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is true that the policies of the president of the United States have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies,\u201d Burke told the magazine.<\/p>\n

The former archbishop of St. Louis stated that Obama is trying to \u201crestrict\u201d religion.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow he wants to restrict the exercise of the freedom of religion to freedom of worship, that is, he holds that one is free to act according to his conscience within the confines of his place of worship but that, once the person leaves the place of worship, the government can constrain him to act against his rightly-formed conscience, even in the most serious of moral questions,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n

Burke took a swipe against Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act over the law\u2019s birth control mandate, saying \u201csuch policies would have been unimaginable in the United States even 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a democracy, such a lack of awareness is deadly,\u201d Burke told the magazine. \u201cIt leads to the loss of the freedom which a democratic government exists to protect. It is my hope that more and more of my fellow citizens, as they realize what is happening, will insist on electing leaders who respect the truth of the moral law as it is respected in the founding principles of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since this was transcribed by Life Site News, you know there’s an abortion angle, and there’s just a bit more at the link.<\/p>\n

The freedom of religion vs. freedom of worship<\/em> is a distinction that I’ve heard elsewhere, and it’s good to hear it given voice by someone at the Vatican. These days, it’s almost like you lose that First Amendment right upon leaving the church building. You don’t, even if you own a business (i.e. Hobby Lobby). This is a serious concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how much the Vatican’s Chief Justice holds sway in terms of official church policy, or how much his opinion reflects the position of the Catholic church, but I thought I’d pass this along. In an interview with Polonia Christiana magazine \u2013and transcribed by Life Site News \u2014 Cardinal Raymond Burke said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,30,9,18,275,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-doug","category-government","category-healthcare","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}