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Friday, July 10, 2009
A gift that keeps on giving
Pope Benedict XVI presented President Obama with an unexpected but perfectly appropriate gift during their meeting today: A copy of Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person). Considering the huge, gaping chasm that exists between the Church's respect for life from conception to natural death and Obama's insistence on broadening and strengthening abortion rights, embyronic stem cell researh and more, I can't think of a better gift than the bioethics document. It certainly beats the lame (and unusable) DVD set Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at their first meeting. Click HERE to read Cindy Wooden's post on the gift at CNS blog.
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Does anyone know what the President gave the Pope? I haven't read or heard any details about that.
I found the answer to my question. For those interested: the President gave the Pope the stole from the vestments that at one time coverd the remains of St. John Neumann, a Redemptorist priest, a bishop of Philadelphia, and the first American male to be canonized. (Those vestments were replaced a few years ago with ones that were more appropriate to the time period in which the saint lived.) The White House did their homework on this gift in the Year for Priests.
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