The American Catholic Church

It should be pretty obvious to just about all Catholics, if it hasn't been by now, that we've got a serious problem in the American Catholic Church. When 54% of us voted for Obama and his radical culture of death agenda, that shows something. When Notre Dame had Obama give the commencement speech and receive an honorary degree from the Catholic institution, while bishops, priests, and faithful around the country raised their voices against that, some people may have seen a problem. When Obama met our Pope and newsweek has a big enough pair to publish the "Is Obama more Catholic Than the Pope?" article, then there might be a problem. One of the commenters in that article sums it up nicely.
IL Girl posts: We who voted for Obama ARE CATHOLICS. WE represent Catholics, NOT YOU and your extreme views. WE DON"T follow your Chauvanistic, blind following of doctrine that is centuries old that represses people. We don't think that saving a mother's life by aborting a fetus is murder. We don't think that using birth control to limit having 10 babies is a sin.

I need to stop there. When i read that, the first thing I thought was "Ok, you're Catholic, except you refuse to believe what the Church teaches.."

This article says that Obama represents American Catholics better than the Pope. That may be true. The Pope doesn't represent American Catholics. The Pope is here to represent one person, and only one person. The Pope represents Jesus Christ. There is a reason Benedict the XVI is Pope, and Obama isn't..

For me, I am a Catholic first, and an American second. If abortion has been considered murder throught the history of the Church, and still is today, then it is murder. A human fetus is still a HUMAN.

We have some great religious leaders in our country, but we have a very shrewd and intelligent man as president. Some of us might not have noticed, but he has been surrounding himself with Catholics, who support his views, which go against the faith. I know he will use this in the future.. "I have more Catholics in my administration than any other president in recent history!". And we'll all say that he's right! Wow! We should all follow this guy! This is interesting, because i'm willing to bet that a lot of us Catholics don't own or have even read the Catechism.. We don't know what the Church teaches, and when one of our leaders speaks out about evils like abortion, homosexual acts, embryonic stem cell research and this kind of serious matter... many of us say, yeah, but that's not important, as long as health care and the economy are in the tubes..

I will not follow Obama, our God-King down his road to Hell.