The President meets the Pope, AKA the Community Organizer meets the Toothless Rottweiler. This Newsweek article, which is not reporting, but rather liberal whining, tries to make Obama both President and a better Pope for American Catholics than Pope Benedict XVI. The fallacy here is that American Catholics are true Catholics in general. Obedience is a Christian mandate, no matter the denomination. If a Catholic does not agree with the Papacy, then that person is a heretic and should either get in step or leave the church and find another denomination. I did, but not for any of the reasons that make Obama a better religious leader...trust me on that.

First, let's look at Obama and his social concepts. Obama is not the savior of America as many liberals socialists believe, because he is not affirming the rights of the people, he is commanding the directive of the government. The current President says, in what he does because I have stopped listening to what he says, is that the government will force the populace to comply with what is good and that will make a better world. We should listen to everyone, take the best and use that. But that isn't what religion, better to say faith, is about. It is also not what the United States was founded on. We, as a country, have based on our government on the rights of the individual to believe and say what they will, however, we also had a mutually agreed upon set level of social acceptance. I fear that today, citizens are far more concerned with what the other person believes or says, causing us to attempt to control the mind, not the actions. Contrary, actions that were once regulated to the privacy of the home, are now allowed in public view. Drunkenness (apart from communal revelry), sexual relations and appetite, and a general aggressiveness are far more open now than they have been in America. The suppression of shame and guilt, the basic emotions associated with having sinned, have garnered a society that has become far more self aggrandizing as well as the unwilling for improvement of the self.

As for the Pope, he has gone from the staunch protector of the Catholic Dogma, to the aged, philosopher who looks to see the betterment of mankind through loving faithfulness of Christ and the Church. Although his sentiments are well put and intended, men know that philosophers don't rule or win battles. We should firmly resolve to be faithful to Christ and the Scripture, but when governments attempt to rule in such fashion as to take care of the populace, than two very important things happen. First, it gives the individual no incentive to be better. No matter what, the government will see to the basic needs of his or her life. Second, it turns the glory to the governing body, or individuals, and away from God. This latter issue is of supreme importance to all the faithful. We must be allowed to succeed or fail under the Eyes of God, and praise Him for our blessings and failures. When we are mandated to have food, shelter and healthcare and other benefits or items, then God was not part of this, just the ruling class.

Today, with the aggressive push against faith in any circumstance, the idea that faith is part of life and not the encompassing reason for and ruling guide for life, the President is essentially becoming a god for the people. The Pope must find his teeth of old and let Obama know exactly two Truths of Life. 1. There is a God, and 2. It is not Obama.