CNS News reports on a news article printed in L’Osservatore Romano about the first 100 days of President Obama. Interestingly enough, Obama is not seen as an extremist, unlike what many on the Catholic blogosphere suggest:
On ethical questions, too — which from the time of the electoral campaign have been the subject of strong worries by the Catholic bishops — Obama does not seem to have confirmed the radical innovations that he had discussed,
Indeed, the article addresses the issue of ESCR and sees it in a light quite different from so many in America:
(The guidelines) do not allow the creation of new embryos for research or therapeutic purposes, for cloning or for reproductive ends, and federal funds may be used only for experimentation with excess embryos
Of course, as the article points out, this does not mean concern is unjustified, but the concern must be based upon what is, and not the unjust intepretations of Obama’s actions. After all, one doesn’t have to be an extremist for one to be wrong; but if Obama isn’t, perhaps Catholics shouldn’t act as if he is in order to make him become one.
H/T to Commonweal
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