{"id":93617,"date":"2014-03-25T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=93617"},"modified":"2014-03-28T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:24:37","slug":"vatican-chief-justice-obamas-policies-have-become-progressively-more-hostile-to-christian-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=93617","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Chief Justice: ‘Obama’s Policies Have Become Progressively More Hostile to Christian Civilisation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CBS St Louis — March 24, 2014<\/h1>\n
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US cardinal Leo Raymond Burke walks on St Peter's square. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Vatican\u2019s chief justice feels that President Barack Obama\u2019s policies have been hostile toward Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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\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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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\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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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<\/span><\/p>\n

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\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<\/span><\/p>\n

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Burke also believes there is hope that abortion will be overturned in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is hope that the evil anti-life laws of the United States can be overthrown and that the anti-life movement which urges yet more of such legislation can be resisted,\u201d Burke said. \u201cThe pro-life movement in the United States has been working since 1973 to reverse the unjust decision of the Supreme Court which struck down state laws prohibiting procured abortion. It is true that the Supreme Court decision stands, but it is also true that the pro-life movement has grown ever stronger in the United States, that is, that more and more citizens, especially young citizens, have been awakened to the truth about the grave evil of procured abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pope Francis removed Burke from the Congregation for Bishops last December.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Obama will be meeting Pope Francis for the first time at the Vatican on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meaning that for the elite, at least, he’s doing what he was appointed for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93874,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93617\/revisions\/93874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}