Ocean Kayaker: Cheney 1, Obama 0

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cheney 1, Obama 0

Today was an historic day for anyone following the continuing debate, inflamed by the current administration, in which those in the current administration cannot find enough bad things to say about the successful efforts of the previous administration - efforts that have kept us safe since 9/11/01. Speeches given by President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney are perfect examples of two different styles of speaking publicly: one is a patriotic speech full of substance; the other, a political speech full of rhetoric. You can decide which is which. Here are links to the speeches:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/more-info/story/1059092.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/21/raw-data-text-dick-cheneys-national-security-speech-aei/

I would only add that after reading the president's speech I couldn't help wondering just how often he willingly offered up his lunch to school yard bullies when he was a young boy.

Transubstantiation

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”

Pope Benedict XVI

The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cheney 1, Obama 0

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