Obama to Meet Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict XVI

In about two weeks, USA President Barack Obama is to meet with Pope Benedict XVI:

Obama to Meet With the Pope Next Month

President Obama will meet with the pope while he is in Italy for the annual G8 summit, which takes place in L’Aquila July 8-10.

FOX News – June 24, 2009

By Anne McGinn

President Obama will meet with Pope Benedict XVI next month to “discuss a range of issues, including their shared belief in the dignity of all people,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

Obama will meet with the pope while he is in Italy for the annual G8 summit, which takes place in L’Aquila July 8-10.

Among the likely topics of discussion between Obama and the pope will be the president’s support for abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research, which puts him at odds with the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings.

Within days of taking office, the president, who received 54% of the Catholic vote in his 2008 election, signed an executive order that reversed the Reagan-Bush policy banning federal funding for groups that discuss or provide abortions outside the U.S. Several weeks later he signed another executive order lifting restrictions on stem cell research.

Of course, this president isn’t the only U.S. leader to differ with the Vatican. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/24/obama-meet-pope/

Last November, Catholic Cardinal James F. Stafford called President-elect Obama “apocalyptic” (pertaining to end-time prophesies in the Book of Revelation) because of his positions on abortion (for more details see Cardinal: Obama Apocalyptic).

While I do not believe that either Barack Obama nor Pope Benedict XVI are the final antichrist, I do believe that both of them will help set the stage for the final Antichrist to rise up.

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