Obama to Nominate Yet Another Deadly Extremist

Obama will be nominating yet another deadly pro-abortion extremist and friend of baby killers, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sibelius, to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. This is the same Kathleen Sibelius who was admonished last year by Kansas Archbishop Joseph Naumann and instructed to refrain from receiving the Eucharist until she renounced her unacceptable views on abortion.

Having made every effort to inform and to persuade Governor Sebelius and after consultation with Bishop Ron Gilmore (Dodge City), Bishop Paul Coakley (Salina) and Bishop Michael Jackels (Wichita), I wrote the governor last August requesting that she refrain from presenting herself for reception of the Eucharist until she had acknowledged the error of her past positions, made a worthy sacramental confession and taken the necessary steps for amendment of her life which would include a public repudiation of her previous efforts and actions in support of laws and policies sanctioning abortion.

Recently, it came to my attention that the governor had received holy Communion at one of our parishes. I have written to her again, asking her to respect my previous request and not require from me any additional pastoral actions.

The governor has spoken to me on more than one occasion about her obligation to uphold state and federal laws and court decisions. I have asked her to show a similar sense of obligation to honor divine law and the laws, teaching and legitimate authority within the church.

I have not made lightly this request of Governor Sebelius, but only after much prayer and reflection. The spiritually lethal message, communicated by our governor, as well as many other high profile Catholics in public life, has been in effect: “The church’s teaching on abortion is optional!”

I reissue my request of the faithful of the archdiocese to pray for Governor Sebelius. I hope that my request of the governor, not to present herself for holy Communion, will provoke her to reconsider the serious spiritual and moral consequences of her past and present actions. At the same time, I pray this pastoral action on my part will help alert other Catholics to the moral gravity of participating in and/or cooperating with the performance of abortions.

As one Catholic blogger has noted, the announcement of Sibelius's nomination seems to be timed to coincide with the launching of a new "Catholics for Sibelius" web site by two left-wing front groups masquerading as Catholic organizations, "Catholics United" and the already discredited "Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good." It might also be worth noting that the announcement comes during the first weekend of Lent, a rather significant season on the Catholic liturgical calendar during which time a lot of emphasis is placed on repentance and reconciliation.

Obama's continued pursuit of the most radical pro-abortion policies and his cavalier attitude toward those with deeply held religious convictions on this and other issues of human dignity is nothing short of disgraceful and bordering on abominable.