The announcement by the White House that President Obama will meet Pope Francis in Vatican City in late March, after attending meetings and visiting several nations in Europe earlier, is a great development!
It will allow our path breaking President, who has shown great courage in many areas of domestic and foreign policy, to meet a Pope who has shook up the Catholic Church, and affected attitudes on a multitude of issues in less than one year in the Papacy!
The two men share a concern about income inequality, the greatest concentration of wealth in the hands of a few in America and world wide, and the horrible poverty and deprivation that exists in much of the world, including one out of six Americans, many of them children, in America.
Both are concerned for human rights worldwide as well, and both understand the discrimination that has been visited against women, and gays and lesbians, and the Pope is also aware of the sexual abuse of women and children by evil elements in the Catholic Church, along with the corruption in the Vatican Bank.
Both Obama and Pope Francis have been called Marxists, and Socialists by the right wing, but they wear such appellations with pride, while laughing at the lunatics who profess such ridiculous statements about two brave men, who will be well remembered in history for their principles and values!
I’m expecting conservatives to have a meltdown over this! LOL!
Yes, they will need ObamaCare coverage! HAHAHA! LOL But you know something, it should be denied to them, and they should have no discounts on hospital or doctor bills! LOL 🙂 It would serve them what they deserve!
Hello Professor,
With your last few posts, you really got the “Tin Foil Hat” crowd ALL whipped up…..Good Job.
I love the exposure of small mind thinking and statements that come from them. It gives me so much material to speak about when I’m on the radio. Such great examples to pass on to the “Critical Thinking” audience that listens in. I was on last Sunday and I’m getting a pretty good following now.
I don’t think the Repubs should be paid for being do-nothings.
Excellent thought-provoking piece: http://serenityhome.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/the-spirituality-of-ebenezer-scrooge/
Another thought-provoking piece: http://open.salon.com/blog/scott_christian/2009/09/10/the_real_reason_americans_are_afraid_of_socialism