Who are you going to trust

In terms of its relation to the Catholic Church, the present administration has shown a propensity for visiting cherished sites associated closely with Mother Church. The Secretary of State visited the tilma of Guadalupe and asked, "Who painted it?" The president spoke about the economy at Georgetown University. Soon, he will visit the University of Notre Dame and be honored by that institution.

And why not? The president won because Catholic voters gave him the victory. He is returning the favor, and inviting them and all who will to lay down the teachings of the Church on the evils of abortion, embryonic stem cell "research", and a number of other "little matters."

It is so easy, once you stop fighting, to let the "progressive" humanist sorts continue to move the line of what is and what is not acceptable human behavior. Little things like the Ten Commandments, Our Lord's teachings on marriage (Matthew 19), other canonical matters of faith and morals will quickly lay by the busy thoroughfare to utopia.

The 20th century was strewn with such humanist projects to "immanentize the eschaton" (Eric Voegelin); all ignoring the realities of Original Sin and our fallen human condition; all looking to mortal men for transcendent leadership rather than Our Lord and Savior. Obama is merely the latest pretender to the Throne.

Never mind certain unalterable facts about this administration’s commitment to include the morally reprehensible and pagan, anthropologically speaking, crime against the unborn as part of this pipe dream.

Since Catholic voters gave the president a mandate by voting for him, he sees no other expedient course of action but to continue it.

Why not? Since the cafeteria Catholics handed him the Oval Office, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his Vice President are behind him, the Catholic Church's teachings are squarely in the cross hairs.

I will leave you to speculate WHY this is the case. But there is little doubt that, as Bishop Robert Finn observed, we are at war.

We can and should expect less pleasantries in this war shortly, seeing how quickly the administration has moved in a mere 100+ days.