Landmark Event: Pope Will Address U.S. Congress
By Julio Severo
For the first time in the U.S.
history, a pope will address the Congress, invited by Republican John Boehner
and Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
“We’re humbled that the Holy Father
has accepted our invitation and certainly look forward to receiving his message
on behalf of the American people,” said Boehner, the most powerful Republican
in the House of Representatives.
“Hearing his call to live our
values, to protect the poor and the needy, and to promote peace,” said Pelosi,
the most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Francis, an Argentinian Jesuit and
the first pope from the Western Hemisphere, has made the cornerstone of his
papacy calling on wealthy nations to “help the poor.”
According to the Associated Press,
he plans to use his trip to the U.S. to urge world leaders to take bold steps
to curb global warming. He also plans to release an encyclical on climate
change, which he says is mostly manmade.
“He has a track record of
challenging people,” said Mathew Schmalz, a religious studies professor at the
College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Even though many Republicans are not
going to like what Francis will say about global warming, it is certain that
many Democrats will not like some of Francis’ views, either.
He has condemned abortion and the
use of artificial contraception, and called marriage between a man and a woman
a “fundamental pillar” of society. However, different from John Paul II, he has
not emphasized these issues. His focus has been fighting poverty.
Obama said he was eager to welcome
the pope to the U.S.
“Like so many people around the
world, I’ve been touched by his call to relieve suffering, and to show justice
and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable,” Obama said.
Obama’ sincerity is a problem. His
administration and political life are rife with pro-abortion activism — a
serious threat to the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.
America needs Christian leaders to
challenge her directly to repent and abandon her wicked ways. Will Francis
match this responsibility? It is not impossible to do so.
In the 1994 National Prayer
Breakfast with President Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa straightforwardly
condemned legal abortion in America and treated its innocent victims as the
most defenseless and vulnerable in the U.S. society.
She challenged Clinton and U.S.
authorities to protect these victims.
This was her last breakfast with
Clinton.
It is doubtful that Pope Francis
will imitate her courageous pro-life speech. In a 2013 papal visit to Brazil,
when socialist Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was considering making
abortion legal — which she did —, Francis
never mentioned abortion and child-killing to her.
Pope John Paul II, a true pro-life
apostle, would have deserved the honor to address the U.S. Congress. Surely, he
would focus on pro-life issues, as Mother Teresa did.
But what to expect from Francis? The
U.S. media is certain, and glad, that he will focus on global warming and
“fighting poverty.” In fact, he
and Obama have now an alliance against global warming.
What to expect from the American
Catholics who invited Francis? Nancy Pelosi’s socialist stances are well representative
of Democrats, including Obama: pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-culture of
death.
What to expect from John Boehner?
According to the Daily
Beast, Boehner said, “We won’t fight gay marriage.” Reportedly,
he basically said the Republican Party will no longer stand in the way of gay
“marriage.”
Such “beautiful” opposition!
Democrats and other socialists advance their socialist evils, and “courteous”
Republicans let them go forward.
Their mutual Catholic courtesy is
now bringing Francis, a pope not prominent (as John Paul II and Mother Teresa
were) in pro-life issues, but highly prominent and praised, including
by homosexual magazines, for his “tolerance” — even for
Islam. Last year he
said that “it is wrong to equate Islam with violence.”
Be it as it may, Boehner’s courtesy
to homosexual “marriage” is very troubling.
According to Scott
Lively, “Ancient Rabbinical tradition holds that homosexuality,
more specifically homosexual marriage, was the ‘final insult’ to God which
caused Him to bring that Great Flood which only Noah and his family survived.”
So, if Republicans are unwilling to fight homosexual “marriage,” what is their
party good for?
Even Russia, criticized and
condemned by Democrats and Republicans, by
U.S. homosexual activists and right-wingers, by Pelosi
and Boehner, by Obama and McCain, has successfully resisted homosexual
“marriage” and other socialist evils. If the Republican Party is unable to do
so, what is it good for?
Some Catholics in Brazil are
rejoicing that America is “more Catholic” today. At least the U.S. Congress is
more Catholic than all the American population.
They rejoice that for the first time
in the U.S. history, a pope will address the U.S. Congress, invited by two
prominent Catholics: John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi.
If a higher number of Catholics is
enough reason for a sense of victory, they should rejoice over the U.S. Supreme
Court, which began 200 years ago with Protestants, but today all of its
Christian members are Catholic. The Supreme Court is no longer Protestant, but
it is more pro-abortion and pro-sodomy than ever.
So, is there reason for rejoicing
over Democrat Pelosi and her pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality obsession?
Is there reason for rejoicing over
Republican Boehner and his unwillingness to fight homosexual “marriage” and
other socialist evils?
Is there reason for rejoicing over a
pope focused on global warming and highly praised by liberals around the world?
Will their Catholicism save America?
If a higher number of Catholics were
a sign of hope, Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world, would be the
most conservative and anti-Marxist country in the world. No. Marxist Liberation
Theology is rampant among Brazilian Catholics, as it is rampant among Catholics
in Latin America.
According to a recent BBC report in Spanish
and Portuguese
by Jaime Gonzalez, American conservatives see Francis as Marxist and radical
environmentalist. No surprise: he is from Latin America. Actually, the BBC
report was defending him against U.S. conservatives!
The pope’s socialist Catholicism is
not different from the Brazilian Catholicism. So it is just natural for Pelosi,
a Catholic socialist, to invite him. Yet, if American conservatives see him as
Marxist, why does Boehner, the most powerful Republican in the House of
Representatives, want him addressing the Congress? It only makes sense if you
understand that the Catholic Republican does not want fight homosexual
“marriage.” Is he, with Pelosi and the pope, considering fighting global
warming too?
By the way, I have never rejoiced
that Obama, Clinton and other liberal U.S. presidents are Protestants.
Their liberal Protestantism is part
of the problems America has today just as liberal Catholicism is part of the
problems of Brazil.
May Pope Francis and the U.S.
Congress someday have his eyes open to see these problems.
With information from the Associated Press and The Daily
Beast.
Portuguese version of this
article: Evento
histórico: papa falará no Congresso dos EUA
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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