crucifixion was jesus christ formenting violence in society. apparently he s not familiar with a thing called the beatitudes. he said his book was based on 1,000 books that were used to make this book. now, shannon, i don t know about you, i have never in my life heard an author say that 1,000 books were his reference to do a book. and while we re at it, he also said, more than once, that he had a degree in a history degree in religion. in fact he doesn t. so there are all sorts of holes you could poke in this man s very, very biassed and very, very one-sided book that is aimed to do nothing. but he also makes the point, and this is a catholic, i take offense to, there s a very big difference between a historical price panned what the media has
and wish to express our desire to support them and their families and loved ones. this patriots day shakes us out of our complacency in a difference and calls us to focus on the task of building a civilization that is based on love and justice. we do not want to risk losing the legacy of those first patriots who were willing to lay down their lives for the common good. we must overcome the culture of death by promoting a culture of life, a profound respect for each and every human being made in the image and likeness of god, and we must cultivate a desire to give our lives in the service of others. last week i was in galilee on the mount of the beatitudes with 30 priests from boston on retreat. there we prayed and listened to
yet i find among a lot of republicans they can t ever extend that to health care them can t say, wait a minute, making sure that everybody can afford their medicine, that is kind of out of the beatitudes. i thought the president s speech today was important. people will say is it a political speech? of course it is a political speech. everything presidents say in election years everything he says is political. but the argument over what christianity has to say about how we should live our lives together or how government should act has been going on ever since pretty much jesus walked the earth and we argue about what christianity said about slavery. the social gospel movement at the turn of the last century said christianity had a lot to say about social justice. and i just can t help but pick up on that ralph reed point. he said presidents speech was thee ologically thread bare. before i came over here, i found this quotation from pope john
scripture in the same way that obama did in a case to make for why we must do things for the poor. yet i find among a lot of republicans they can t ever extend that to health care them can t say, wait a minute, making sure that everybody can afford their medicine, that is kind of out of the beatitudes. i thought the president s speech today was important. people will say is it a political speech? of course it is a political speech. everything presidents say in election years everything he says is political. but the argument over what christianity has to say about how we should live our lives together or how government should act has been going on ever since pretty much jesus walked the earth and we argue about what christianity said about slavery. the social gospel movement at the turn of the last century said christianity had a lot to say about social justice. and i just can t help but pick up on that ralph reed point. he said presidents speech was
obama did in a case to make for why we must do things for the poor. yet i find among a lot of republicans they can t ever extend that to health care them can t say, wait a minute, making sure that everybody can afford their medicine, that is kind of out of the beatitudes. i thought the president s speech today was important. people will say is it a political speech? of course it is a political speech. everything presidents say in election years everything he says is political. but the argument over what christianity has to say about how we should live our lives together or how government should act has been going on ever since pretty much jesus walked the earth and we argue about what christianity said about slavery. the social gospel movement at the turn of the last century said christianity had a lot to say about social justice. and i just can t help but pick up on that ralph reed point. he said presidents speech was