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06/30/2009 President Meets Pope
06/26/2009 American Catholic Cultural Challenges
06/23/2009 Seeking the Immaculate Heart
06/17/2009 On Vacation . . .
06/12/2009 The New Missal Explained
06/09/2009 The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood
06/05/2009 Embryonic Research: The Power of Words
06/02/2009 Euthanasia, Then and Now
05/29/2009 Year of the Priest, and their Bishops?
05/26/2009 L'Osservatore รจ Cieco
05/22/2009 Ah, Give Me the Complex Life!
05/19/2009 Notre Dame Fallout?
05/14/2009 Is Catholic Social Teaching Liberal?
05/12/2009 Benedict's Holy Land Addresses
05/08/2009 The Pope in the Holy Land
05/05/2009 A Spiritual Perspective
05/01/2009 The Future of Pro-Life Politics
04/28/2009 Just Plain Interesting
04/24/2009 The Pro-Life Counter-Attack
04/21/2009 Evidence of Renewal?
04/16/2009 Image of God, Image of Mammon
04/14/2009 Making Our Alleluias Stick
04/09/2009 A Blessed Easter!
04/07/2009 Thinking More About God
04/03/2009 A Deficit of Ethics
03/31/2009 A Long Lent for the Legion
03/27/2009 Lent: Ending Well?
03/24/2009 A Universal Salvific Mission
03/20/2009 Out of Africa
03/16/2009 The Great Boston Health Care Question
03/13/2009 Benedict Makes His Case
03/10/2009 Benedict Defends the Marriage Bond
03/06/2009 Facing the Truth with Joseph and Patrick

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President Meets Pope

Barack Obama sought a meeting with the Pope and will have that meeting on July 10th. We owe to one of our many CatholicCulture.org users the suggestion that we sponsor another perpetual rosary, this time for the intention that President Obama will be profoundly influenced by his visit with Benedict XVI. Sign up for a time slot here.

It can be surmised that Obama wanted the meeting both as a matter of diplomatic propriety and to further enhance his legitimacy in the eyes of Catholics. The President is well aware of the divisions in the Catholic community, and he has proven himself a master of staffing his administration with Catholics who disregard the Magisterium of the Church.

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