AmericanPapist Comments
I choose option one. When you pack of bunch of people in a room, it gets awfully hot. Nothing ulterior here.
I don't know man, it seems to happen a lot... and always within plain sight of Obama... though he often seems more annoyed than anything.
Nathan,
Funny how it is only the women who faint in that case and they always seem to be up front.
Rudy use to have his little stunt where his wife would call his cell phone while he was speaking and he would act surprised, each and every time it happened during a campaign stop.
Oh, cynic and unbelievers, dost thou not see a heavenly-opportunity when it happens? What will it take to convince you?
When he said, "If we have a medic," I half-expected him to continue, "please 'abort' that woman's infant."
How politicians think they can get away with this in the age of Youtube, I don't know. (BTW: Giuliani was not trying to fool anyone with the cellphone thing. Everyone knew it was a gag.)
Reminds me of how Cardinal McCarrick came back from Rome and lied to the U.S. Bishops about Ratzinger's position on whether politicians in the state of mortal sin should be receiving Communion. McCarrick also lied about the existence of a letter from Ratzinger. He got away with it long enough to get the bishops to vote on a wimpy statement. But thanks to the internet, McCarrick's lie was exposed when the letter from Ratzinger that McCarrick was supposed to deliver to all the bishops was printed in an Italian newspaper. I thought at the time: "See? He's an old man. He forgot about the internet."
So McCarrick was able to keep the sacrilegious Communions, and the scandal, going for a few more years. His successor, Wuerl, is also a sacrilegious Communion enthusiast.
But guess who appointed Archbishop Wuerl to his present position?
Fainting? Or slain in the Spirit? You decide!
(Am old enough to remember the days of people fainting at Mass due to fasting since midnight and full churches being hot and airless) ;-)
I have my own very specific theories about this:
http://apoloblogology.blogspot.com/2008/02/barack-
obama-and-benny-hinn.html
Nathan: Which proves what?
Well, Father, you seem to have such a problem with Archbishop Wuerl, I would have to assume that you have a problem with the man who gave him the pallium. So what's your theory on why Cardinal Ratzinger, the one who wrote a letter on abortion and politicians, has appointed a "sacriligious" man to the archbishopric of Washington D.C.? You can't say that Wuerl is a wild card that the Pope knew nothing about. And you can't say this is the fault of the Congregation of Bishops, because it's widely reported that the Holy Father is much more hands-on in the selection process than JP II was. Is Pope Benedict failing to defend the Eucharist? The buck has to stop somewhere, no?
Res ipsa loquitur.
Fr. Joe, to say that Abp. Wuerl is a "sacriligeous Communion enthusiast" is surely untrue, and Nathan, to defend a bishop on the basis that a pope appointed him is surely disingenuous. No?
While listening to some excerpts of Obama's speeches, I am reminded of a certain German dictator of the 30's and 40's!
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