The president’s account downplayed the Catholic Church’s concerns about religious freedom in the United States and Obamacare’s mandate to pay for contraception.
The Vatican, however, issued a statement after the meeting saying the president’s discussions with Francis and two other top Vatican officials focused “on questions of particular relevance for the [Catholic] Church in [the United States], such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection” — issues that have fueled divisions between Mr. Obama and the church.
Bryan Preston asks,
So who should we believe — the man who about a billion people believe is infallible? Or the man known for lying to everyone when he said, repeatedly, that if they like their health care they can keep it? Should we believe the man who wants to take people’s hard-earned property and “spread it around” to help out his political ideology, or the man who sneaks out at night to give out of his own pocket to the poor?
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