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Fr. Federico Lombardi

Vatican City, Oct 9, 2009 / 12:59 pm (CNA).- The Vatican offered its appreciation today for President Barack Obama’s work for peace on the international level, following the announcement that the president the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi told L’Osservatore Romano that President Obama’s reception of the award “is greeted with appreciation by the Vatican” due to his efforts “to promote peace in the international arena, particularly in the recent effort in favor of the nuclear disarmament."

Fr. Lombardi also said that he hopes that the honor “may generate the expected results for the future of humanity.”

Reacting to the award, President Obama stated that it isn’t necessarily “a recognition of my own accomplishments,” but rather a “call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.”

Fox News reported that the award committee chose the President due to his work to reduce nuclear weapons, his commitment to easing tensions with the Middle East and his dedication to cooperation.

The chairman of the Norwegian committee charged with choosing the peace prize recipient, Thorbjoern Jagland, said that although the president’s initiatives have yet to bear fruit, “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future.”

In his statement today, the president also said he does not feel that he deserves “to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize.”

Previous winners of the award include Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Theodore Roosevelt, Elie Wiesel and Jimmy Carter.

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Published by: Robert
Scotland 04/07/2010 11:52 AM EST

The vatican appears to be playing some kind of political game with Obama. He promotes the opposite of exactly what our Catholic faith stands for, life. He should be told in no uncertain terms that he is not a friend of our church, should stop the murder of our children and that he is anti christian(antichrist). Perhaps the prophecy is fulfilling itself and the tentative connection between The Glory of The Olive will uncover itself in due course. Malachy's prophecies predict that the next Pope is our last and will be named Peter, the rock, on which our religion is based and may 'founder'. We need prayer, these enemies and allies of Satan will not be beaten by men alone. Only the power of prayer will triumph and lead the Catholic Church in its fight against evil.

Published by: Dan
Santa Fe 10/24/2009 09:58 AM EST

'Gloria olivæ' 'The Benedictine order traditionally said this Pope would come from their order, since a branch of the Benedictine order is called the Olivetans. St Benedict is said to have prophesied that before the end of the world, a member of his order would be Pope and would triumphantly lead the Church in its fight against evil. While the Holy Father chose the name "Benedict", this does not seem enough to fulfil the prophecy. Nor is it clear how Benedict XVI (a Bavarian) is "Glory of the Olives". Since he is said to have remarked in the Conclave after saying he would take the name Benedict that it was partly to honour Benedict XV, a pope of peace and reconciliation, perhaps Benedict XVI will be a peacemaker in the Church or in the World, and thus carry the olive branch.' Peacemaker within The Church now seems fitting.

Published by: Jack
NY 10/14/2009 11:40 AM EST

Why are so many honoring and praising Obama? All I know is that ST. Malachy's papal prophecy of there being one more pope and then The End, sure seems likely. Is Obama the Antichrist? Sure looks like it. He's being hailed as if he were a messiah. I saw this while he was campaigning. Clergy need to STOP honoring him and start praying for him and be openly against what he stands for.

Published by: Doctor Phil
NSW, Australia 10/14/2009 03:04 AM EST

What's the fuss? Could it be more spoiled than it is already? Anwar al-Sadat, Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat are previous recipients. The only way I can think of just now to more greatly insult the value of the award would be if Osama bin Laden were next years recipient. After all, these are the profits from making the stuff which allows people to blows things up, shoot guns small and large, explode grenades ... What is it with you American fundamentalist Catholics and your exclusive focus on abortion as the only domestic moral evil needing redress anyway? Are there no other evils in your locales? Does the power of the projected military might outside its shores, the distortion of economies and dirty business practices accepted as smart, the rape of the planet's scarce resources and the greedy overconsumption of them, the interference with the governments of other people in the world, the ill-health and death of fellow citizens in the slums and streets of your cities not call for similar moral outrage?

Published by: TP
Il. 10/13/2009 11:22 AM EST

A lesson that I have learned, " Only trust in Jesus Christ, not the church, not the pope, and certainly not Obama!

Published by: Brad
Tampa FL USA 10/12/2009 06:54 PM EST

First of all, don't worry about the babies! They're all in heaven! They get to skip the "weeping and mourning in this valley of tears!" Second, Be Careful! Obama may indeed be the Second Coming of Christ!

Published by: Chris
USA 10/12/2009 03:57 PM EST

What the heck is going on at the VAatican??? Do they not know what Obama stands for? What he hopes to undo in this country? How EVIL is presidency is? When Barrack Husein Obama visited Rome, the Vatican should have been locked up and the Holy Father gone! Just like the Pope did years ago when Hitler came to visit.

Published by: Janet L.H.
Lake Villa, IL USA 10/12/2009 01:22 PM EST

My heart feels broken that my Catholic Church would give a positive spin to a person who upholds all forms of abortion or any forms. To put him on the same level as Blessed Mother Theresa and the other special people debases the Award. I suspected that something was very wrong when Jimmy Carter was awarded this, now I am positive it means nothing any more. That anyone in my church would support this is confusing and terribly sad.

Published by: Walt
Bradford 10/12/2009 10:32 AM EST

That Fr. Federico Lombardi actually speaks for the pope is certainly as questionable as the L’Osservatore Romano's objectivity these days.

Published by: dominic
roselle il 10/12/2009 01:28 AM EST

God needs us to keep speaking the truth! Dont be disheartened cuz so many in Rome have fallen for this false prophet! God is watching closely and praise be his merciful son Jesus! No where does Divine mercy call for tolerating Murder of God's Babies!

Published by: MaryTeresa
New York, New York 10/11/2009 11:54 PM EST

"The fruits of abortion are nuclear war." Well said, Mother Teresa.

Published by: Francis Xavier T
Washington, D.C. 10/11/2009 10:44 PM EST

I heard that Vatican is about to give obama the Grand Cross Award.

Published by: Anne
Horseheads, New York/USA 10/11/2009 10:43 PM EST

This man has declared war on the unborn, marriage and the elderly!!!!!!! How can anyone in the Vatican be expressing appreciation this man??? God have mercy on us all!!!

Published by: Amy, MEV
Deming, NM 10/11/2009 07:05 PM EST

Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace - Mother Teresa (a TRUE worker for peace and deserving recipient of this award)

Published by: J.
USA 10/11/2009 05:49 PM EST

It seems to me that the more some high official or other in the Church glows over Obama, the harder it becomes for faithful Catholics to stand up to him. "How can you be so critical," the enemies of the Church will claim, "when 'the Vatican' (or whoever) approves of him?" Do they realize how demoralizing this is to faithful Catholics who are struggling over here? If the Europeans want him so badly, they can have him. I am not taken in by Obama, his pomps, or his empty promises. Pius XI said all that needs to be said: "Pax Christi in Regno Christi" -- The peace of Christ in the Reign of Christ.

Published by: Michael
Benicarlo-Spain 10/11/2009 01:25 PM EST

The vatican,has the smoke of satan in it big time....orwells double speak is in the vaticanas well war is peace and peace is war,slave is free,freedom is slavery..those at the vatican better read there bibles again if they ever do ???

Published by: Michael
Benicarlo-Spain 10/11/2009 01:12 PM EST

Published by: Bill Sr.
Jacksonville FL. 10/11/2009 09:12 AM EST

"In his statement today, the president also said he does not feel that he deserves “to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize" You know, maybe this guy has some common sense after all. But then he more than likely has convinced himself that he is a lot like Mother Teresa, in that they were both "commmunity organizers"

Published by: Margaret
Milwaukee,WI USA 10/11/2009 09:10 AM EST

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta says the greatest threat to peace is abortion. Ho can this Vatican official be congratulating him?

Published by: EDWARD DICARLO
CINTI, OH 10/11/2009 04:39 AM EST

HOW CAN A PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR SO MANY ABORTIONS GET A NOBLE PEACE PRIZE. I THOUGHT THE IDEA WAS TO AWARD SOMEONE FOR BRINGING PEACE NOT KILLING INNOCENT BABIES AND PROMOTING SAME SEX MARRIAGE!!!!

Published by: Connie Stahl
Wheeling, WV 10/11/2009 12:10 AM EST

While I can understand the Vatican's view on the Nobel Peace Prize. I personally feel he has done nothing but humiliate the American people,by constantly apologizing for what he thinks we have done wrong to the world. I would never put him in the same category with Mother Theresa! God Bless America

Published by: Laurie
Canada 10/10/2009 10:39 PM EST

As Mother Teresa said, a country that aborts its children will never see peace. Anyone that advocates against human life is not a peace-maker but a person of violence even if they seem like lambs on the exterior.

Published by: jim
austin, TX 10/10/2009 07:43 PM EST

'appreciation' is the not so warm welcome you give unwelcomed house guests. It seems to be a state to state thing. No approval, no disapproval, just 'appreciation'. Also my understanding is the disarmament issue was after the voting closed--so theoretically it had nothing to do with justifying this award. Maybe it was given to him for his bending over backward to please Planned Parenthood before the election--seeing that the UN and presumably the presenters of this prestigeous award are head over heals in favor of. I may be wrong, but in any event Jesus save us from ourselves!

Published by: Helene Pineau
Ontario Canada 10/10/2009 07:03 PM EST

This is probably the first time the Nobel Peace Prize is given to someone based on propaganda and nothing else. It's a sham and to lump the most ardently pro-abortion US president ever with the likes of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and Elie Wiesel is scandalous. It cheapens this award.

Published by: Mark
Edison/NJ/USA 10/10/2009 06:42 PM EST

Obama should promote some peace in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of building up troops. He should become pro-life. Then he would deserve a peace award.

Published by: denise
saskatoon,sk.can. 10/10/2009 06:19 PM EST

With all the WRONG President Obama does...and ALL for attention to the 'cause of SELF',how does this equate to a 'Nobel Prize'? when NOTHING has been established except MORE attention to his first goal, which is SELF! Wait for the crop to ripen, all he does is sow, sow, sow for self profit,profit, profit...Wise Up!

Published by: Lorrie Decker
Ringwood, NJ, US 10/10/2009 05:14 PM EST

How does a man, who promotes violence to the unborn, win a Nobel Peace prize? Father Lombardi, what are you thinking?Sorry, he should not be mentioned in the same breath as Mother Theresa.

Published by: Marc
Medford, Oregon, USA 10/10/2009 03:04 PM EST

How could a man who is the largest promoter of abortion in US presidential History be a promoter of peace? I wish the Vatican would stop sending mixed signals to the world. It allows the scandal of pro-abortion Catholics to continue.

Published by: John Chuck
Boise/Idaho/USA 10/10/2009 02:19 PM EST

The Vatican is giving honor to whom others have honored, but is the Nobel prize a little premature? The President believes so and at least has the humility to divert commentary about his prize because of his [lack of] qualifications for the prize. His prize joins with other prominents, including such ignobles as Bishop Tutu and Carter. They got it right with Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa. For the Nobel Committee, they need a new drawing board. As for the officials at the Vatican and Rome who keep proverbially embracing our President, a little sackcloth and ashes are in order and prayer for our President's conversion rather than congratulations. Please.

Published by: Michael
Nebraska 10/10/2009 01:09 PM EST

When the award is based on expectations or expected results not actual results or even sustained effort, the value of the award becomes meaningless.

Published by: Lenore McKenziw
Vancouver, Canada 10/10/2009 11:57 AM EST

Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that Pope Benedict okayed Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Did the Pope or was it others in the Vatican. The same thing happened with the Harry Potter series. The Pope didn' approve of them . It was some priest in the Vatican. Protestants love to blame the Pope for things that I am sure he doesn't approve of. Makes me very upset. Lenore Mckenzie

Published by: Man From Uncle
usa 10/10/2009 11:07 AM EST

Fire Fr. Lombardi! With all due respect...Obama has 'talked peace' but what has really done??? Violence in the WOMB! This is an outrage, that Fr. Lombardi and the Vatican...through him are applauding this! We as Catholics should be ASHAMED that our Church is STOOPING to this! Ar we Catholic or aren't we? And this goes for all of you Clergy from the TOP to the Bottom!!! No wonder our world is going to hell! Lord have mercy...especially on our Priests and Bishops!

Published by: Ron
North Dakota, USA 10/10/2009 09:56 AM EST

On some things, the Vatican is completely out of touch with reality. To applaud the most pro-death president the United States has ever had for winning the Nobel peace prize is a slap in the face and insult to those of us in the trenches who fight for the protection of human life from the moment of conception until natural death. With recent "peace prize" awards to the likes of Obama, Al Gore, and Yasser Arafat, the Nobel Committee has demonstrated that it is nothing more than a laughing stock and a bad joke.

Published by: Jared Weber
USA 10/10/2009 09:51 AM EST

This is moronic. Firstly, the President has DONE nothing for the "peace" about which the Noble committee seems to care. That much is obvious and I'm sure other posters will go into that in greater depth. But more important is that nagging little "factoid" that this President has done much to promote the War upon the unborn. The Womb has never been a more dangerous place to be than it is under this President's watch. As a faithful Catholic, I weep that so many in Mother Church's hierarchy are so deplorably and apparently WILLFULLY out of touch with Reality. God have mercy on us all.

Published by: Peg Donnelly
Berne, NY USA 10/10/2009 09:16 AM EST

How can the Vatican approve of the Nobel Peace Prize for Pres. Obama the most pro-abortion president the US has ever had, when the Catholic Church prohibits abortion? Didn't a former recipient of the Prize, Mother Teresa of Calcutta say "abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace"? The powers that be at the Vatican need to do more research before they make such outrageous statements as Pres. Obama's reception of the award as "greeted with appreciation".

Published by: Eileen
Largo, fla., USA 10/10/2009 08:27 AM EST

Praising a baby killer? Vatican liberals we know you are there and warn you to mend your ways or be looking for another job.

Published by: Cat
Germany 10/10/2009 08:25 AM EST

I am saddened and puzzled why my beloved Church accepts the decision of the Nobel Peace Prize committee and does not understand the deeper motives the President of the US has -to increase the Culture of Death - not Peace. The Smoke of Satan has indeed entered the Church.

Published by: Michael
Nashville, TN, USA 10/10/2009 07:15 AM EST

We all want peace, but the question is, does appeasement and weakening our national defense really promote peace, or does it have a destabilizing effect, emboldening radical Islam to make war? Somehow I have a feeling that this Nobel panel would have given the Peace Prize to Nevil Chamberlain, too.

Published by: Michael Lawewnce
Longville Louisiana United States of America 10/10/2009 06:07 AM EST

Obama is a aboritionist, he has pass legislation to let a baby who has survived an abortion to lie on a cold table and die without any help to let it live. He has spoken at our catholic universities and had any image of Christ covered up. He is a socialist and a champion of comunisum, aren't these the things John Paul the second worked so hard to bring down in the world.I am a cradle Catholic,I am the Grand Knight of my Knight's of colombus coumcil, a Knight of Imaculata. and also a minister of the Eucharist, who is Christ body blood soul and divinty! Now the Church is not giving out the blood of Christ at Mass now because of the swine flu. Doesn't the Church believe this is the real blood of Christ, and if it is how can anything contaminate it. I fear greatly for Holy Mother Church on this earth!

Published by: Barbara
Huntington, Ny, USA 10/10/2009 04:50 AM EST

While Pres. Obama seems to want to do what Jesus Himself could only accomplish by shedding His blood, one would think a prize should be given for actually accomplishing it? I want peace in the world, I want all persons to be treated fairly and equally. Give me the platform and I would gladly proclaim it. However, I would also have stopped the killings in Africa, and I would have known that an organization I was once the lawyer for was receiving great amounts of money during a most difficult time, was, infact corrupt. Sooooooo are we more desperate for eternal happiness in heaven which God has already promised us or are we so drugged that just hearing words that sound like heaven is enough?

Published by: KENNEDY FAMILY
Melbourne Australia 10/10/2009 04:16 AM EST

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Next time Nobel peace prize committee Please consider giving ANY of the BRAVE USA PRO LIFE CLERGY THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE, because they are the truly brave ones here! They never ever turn their backs on the innocent unborn! The likes of Cardinal Rigali archbihops Dolan , Raymond Burke now in Rome and Archbishop Chaput will do for a start thanks very much! See these clergy so DESERVE recognition too They humbly never seek it but they ALWAYS have the courage to stick their necks out for our future, the next generation! Their caring and learned voices unfailingly deliver for the unborn! See there can be no TRUE peace if the world continues to kill its most innocent, the unborn life aint just for any come lately celebrity style politicians that employ glib oraty The proof is in the deeds they do not the words FACTA NON VERBA! Life is always for the hidden unborn part of the wider community Children bring the promise of hope and joy for the future. Every life is unique, special, talented. There is room for all of us in the world, the unborn included! Obama wouldnt be getting any prizes today if he had been aborted simple as that!

Published by: joan franco
new hartford, NY 10/09/2009 11:52 PM EST

It is outrageous to consider president o'bama a peace loving man and also to catagorize him with such great people as Mother Theresa. Already as president, he has enhanced a racial divide, has supported the pro choice movement, and also is a socialist. Hardly someone to be admired. Give it up and stop commenting favorably siding with this man who has made himself "anything but"

Published by: MM
USA 10/09/2009 10:52 PM EST

I am a very practicing Catholic and the Vatican is SOOOO out of touch with the "President"! Most Americans, except for his supporters, are outraged! Backroom deals going on!

Published by: Josmar
Philippines 10/09/2009 10:40 PM EST

It's nothing but an empty politicized award to sanitize Obama's sagging image especially after suffering a huge black eye when Chicago lost its bid for the 2016 Olympics.

Published by: Dennis
College Station, TX 10/09/2009 10:32 PM EST

Yet all the while, there is no peace for children in their mother's womb! If we can't have peace here and respect for innocent children in their mother's womb, there will be no peace! May God befall a true conversion experience upon Obama.

Published by: Jaszman
USA 10/09/2009 10:06 PM EST

L'Osservatore Romano sure goes to a lot of trouble to make sure they show Prez. Obama in a "good light". The man does not even want to give healthcare to a baby that survives an abortion. (check his voting record) The world has been so deceived that a President is praised just for being black. What a joke! Talk is cheap. The only thing that will be "generated, in the future of humanity" is more abortions, forced to be paid for by the American citizen, and more criminal sexual education with an homosexual agenda taught to the innocent childern in the schools of America. Watch the advancement and generation of same sex marriage. That is the future of humanity. Again, talk is cheap. Let us see the good deeds before the praises. Prayer to God would be better than "praises" to misguided men.

Published by: confused catholic
New York 10/09/2009 09:28 PM EST

appreciation for what? what did obama do to warrant the pp? never mind the vaticans "appreciation" Is this so called priest on this planet? Is Osservatore a "roman catholic" newspapaper? What's going on in the "catholic" church I better go backto Vatican2 documents and try to figure it out.

Published by: rosarotondi
hicksville, ny usa 10/09/2009 09:27 PM EST

I am totally shocked!!! How can there be peace in the world while babies are being murdered every minute of the day and Obama is not doing anything to stop it. What kind of peace are we talking about? Is the Holy Father aware of what Fr. Lombardi said? I really would like to know. It is outragious! I don't know if I want to be catholic anymore. Somebody please do something about Fr. Lombardi.

Published by: R.C.
Acworth, GA, USA 10/09/2009 09:24 PM EST

I wish Obama well, and I'm glad he's giving the prize money to charity, but this award is not about Obama. It is an award for not being G.W.Bush, given by a group of folks who don't seem to be able to stop themselves giving prizes to make anti-Bush statements. If anyone doubts this, consider the nomination cut-off. Set aside the fact that President Obama couldn't be convicted, if it were a crime, of having enacted a single policy yet. This is no slam against him; there hasn't been time to enact anything. As far as accomplishments go, his list consists of the single item of winning the election: Impressive, but irrelevant to the Nobel Peace Prize. But set that aside, and look at the nomination deadline. Nominations were closed in February. Obama had been president for scarcely a month when his name went in. Why, at that time, could his name possibly have been included? Answer: He was not Bush. Which is the same reason Jimmy Carter received it for diplomatic counterproductivity and Al Gore received it for indulging in self-importance at the expense of scientific accuracy. "Not Bush" has an amazing effect on the Nobel Committee. Again, this is not about Obama. Nice fellow; I hope he grows into the job. But the committee is really becoming a laughingstock. The Nobel Peace Prize had a certain worldwide cultural significance, but that stock is falling.

Published by: Odile Williams
1756 Morelos Rd 10/09/2009 09:15 PM EST

There is a God ..there is still a Catholic Church ...somewhere..there are still Pastors and there are still the faithful.God knows where and the Communists( the Desenform) know where they are not! Oh yes, and there is dogma and there is Christ ,His Father and the Holy Ghost.

Published by: MGM
LAS VEGAS, NV. USA 10/09/2009 08:39 PM EST

LETS NOT FORGET ABOUT THE UNBORN. THEY ARE NOT IN PEACE AND WILL NEVER BE UNLESS THE PRESIDENT RECOGNIZE THEIR TERROR.

Published by: Joan
Washington state, USA 10/09/2009 08:30 PM EST

This is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard. The Peace prize winners are chosen in February, so how could ANYONE who has been in office only 12 days be evaluated for such an important award? I think Fr. Lombardi needs to be replaced. It seems like everything coming from his office lately is a mess.

Published by: Niles
San Francisco, CA 10/09/2009 08:24 PM EST

May God richly Bless our President & the United States of America ! May the Peace of the Lord reign in the hearts of all Humankind! While peace may seem elusive in a world filled with strife & violence, it can be achieved. +Saint Francis of Assisi & Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us.

Published by: Maria Trujillo
Plantation, FL., USA 10/09/2009 08:23 PM EST

Reminds me of Jim Jones.

Published by: Cathy
Florida 10/09/2009 08:09 PM EST

Excuse me!!! His efforts have not borne fruit. When has an honoree been presented this award without achieving something. They have put the horse before the cart. How can he receive the peace award when he accepts abortion - what about the peace of the fetus!!! I'm glad to hear him say he does not deserve the award - at least he is speaking the truth here.

Published by: Anne Scanlon
Bronx NY USA 10/09/2009 07:44 PM EST

You are joking...Right ?????

Published by: M Mac
Fredericksburg, VA USA 10/09/2009 07:31 PM EST

What? Is this for real? A man who would let a child die from a botched abortion deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? And the Vatican gives this man a nod? Has the Vatican completely lost its mind?

Published by: John J
Falls Chruch, Virginia 10/09/2009 07:18 PM EST

Father Federico Lombardi, you should honor Barrack Hussein Obama as the Prince of Peace, not Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Published by: Mike
New York 10/09/2009 06:54 PM EST

I sometimes become very disenchanted with statements from the Vatican. How the Vatican can express pleasure that a man who openly professess support and expansion of abortion rights, including partial birth abortion is simply beyond me. If you recall as a state senator, Obama would not even support a bill to provide medical care to babies born after a "botched" abortion. How can one be a peace prize winner when he openly supports the murder of the most defenseless in our society? Does the Vatican not remember that 30 years ago, teh same award when to Mother Theresa. In her accepatnce speeech she emphasized that the greatest threat to peace was abortion. AQnd so now 30 years later, the same award goes to a man that in fact has the exact opposite view of a previous winner-one that will someday be a canonized saint of the Holy Roman Catholic Church- and the Vatican says it is pleased. Well, I am not pleased -at teh award and with the Vatican

Published by: emma
sf/ca/usa 10/09/2009 06:39 PM EST

Very interesting since Obama had only been president for 12 days when he won the award. What has he done, really? frankly the award has little meaning anyway.

Published by: Dave
Boulder, CO, USA 10/09/2009 06:24 PM EST

Peace - waht peace? This pro-death politician supports and exports the killing of little human beings in the womb and after they are born. Many are cut apart in the womb - maybe this is not the 'peace' prize, but the 'piece' prize.

Published by: Dan
Santa Fe 10/09/2009 06:16 PM EST

So he racks up an honory law degree from a Catholic college and the Nobel Peace Prize after 12 days in office---can anyone say 'appearing as an angel of light?'

Published by: Our Lady's Mercy House
Allentown, PA, USA 10/09/2009 06:09 PM EST

"Kool-Aid Kool-Aid, Tastes Great, We Want Kool-Aid, Can't Wait!"

Published by: Fergus Flynn
Canada 10/09/2009 05:45 PM EST

"Previous winners of the award include Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Theodore Roosevelt, Elie Wiesel and Jimmy Carter" All of whom actually did something to deserve it. I mean actually DID something, as opposed to talking about what can be done, if we believe. yes..we..can...... Heaven help us.

Published by: gerard grandi
temecula,ca.usa 10/09/2009 05:24 PM EST

this man is a joke! these awards have been politicize for years! to receive a honor like this for being in office for eight months shows that political correctness knows no bonds.if Obama truly desires peace, to save the world from nuclear destruction, then let him start with disarming the agents of the cult of death. to show the world how much this nation truly values the sanctity of life!

Published by: albert marek
dallas tx USA 10/09/2009 04:52 PM EST

Why should Obama be greeted with appreciation by the Vatican? Obama is the most anti-life president we ever had. Obama wants the killing of the un-born to be leagal through out the world.Does this give people hope for a better future as stated by Thorbjoern Jagland? Hitler would be proud. Does the Vatican know this man Obama? God help us.

Published by: Radomysl Twardowski
Bismarck, ND, USA 10/09/2009 03:36 PM EST

Sorry, but as a person who left Poland in 1983 ( a month before Lech Walesa's truly deseved honor) I only "appreciate" the fact that the Norwegian committee hase been lock in step since 2001 with either the Moslems' point of view or their leftist and liberal sympathizers grouped inside the Democrat party in the U.S. Since Andrei Sakharov and Lech Walesa, Christian conservatives like Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, George W. Bush (yes, I am serious) need not apply for the Nobel honors. Vatican has to be diplomatic but the unborn cannot expect peace from Mr. Obama.

Published by: Thorn
Austin, Tx. USA 10/09/2009 02:44 PM EST

Another brilliant statement made by a Vatican spokesman. I'm sure Obama will share his award with Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago that peace loving city.

Published by: Francis Xavier T
Washington, D.C. 10/09/2009 02:24 PM EST

CNA, you forgot to mention former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger also awarded with the Nobel Peace prize for selling Vietnam to China. In 1973, U.S. and the communist North Vietnam signed a peace accord in Geneva without any representative of the Republic South Vietnam. After the peace accord was signed, U.S. withdrew all the military personnel from Southeast Asia. This resulted millions of people killed in Cambodia, Lao, and Vietnam. Another million refugees died on their way to freedom. The Nobel Peace Prize of 2009 award decision was made in February, 12 days after Obama took office as the president of the United States. Obama is the most pro-abortion president ever in the U.S history and he wanted to expand the war in Afghanistan. Obama is not compassionate to the victims of natural disasters. In fact, he said not a word to the victims. I wish Mother Teresa were still alive today. Knowing her temper, she would probably give up her Nobel gold coin in a heartbeat because she was anti-abortionist and a true peace lover.

Published by: Dan in Calgary
Calgary Alberta Canada 10/09/2009 02:01 PM EST

This is a new low water-mark for tarnishing the prestige of an otherwise coveted award on the altar of international political correctness. It is possible that President Barack Obama may one day merit the Nobel Peace Prize. Surely, not yet. I thought that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for significant meritorious deeds that have had a positive and measurable impact on global peace, or for exemplary and persuasive personal self-sacrifice to a peaceful or benevolent cause, not for expertise in platitude-ridden hyperbole nor for ambitious promises, all delivered well in advance of accomplishments. That's before getting into Mr. Obama's political record on the matter of abortion. Mr. Obama says that he is "deeply humbled" by this award. I suspect that previous recipients and many current nominees with real cases for eligibility are deeply humiliated. The credibility of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is literally reaching out of its own coffin to hammer in another nail. Dan in Calgary

Published by: elija
Jerusalem 10/09/2009 01:46 PM EST

Hope for a better future with a president supporting killing of unborn children and homosexuallife-styles in one line with marriage????! It starts to create much pain to see how blind people are for the real underground of this politician and for the danger. And even more it is pain to see that this blindness is also reaching the church. Recently the bishop from Kishasa (Congo) said that the election from P.Obama was a sign from the Holy Spirit. How can this be that the Holy Spirit acts again himself? Elija - sad to see this dangerous blindness!

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