I found two rather sharp Catholic reactions to President Obama being awarded Nobel Peace Prize…This very same prize that Mother Teresa did win for her service to the poor of India, and that Pope John Paul II didn’t win for his two decades of actual peacemaking around the world.
Human Life International President Fr. Tom Euteneuer has this to say regarding the exclusion of JP II during his life:
“Pope John Paul II was not granted the Peace Prize in 24 years of peace-making around the world because the leftists on the Nobel Committee obviously don’t give this Prize for actual results of peace.”
And then Fr. Z weighed in:
“So they give him the Noble Peace Prize so that he might do something in the future?
Let’s review:
POTUS called for the abandonment of nuclear weapons…. like that’s going to happen.
He expanded American diplomacy…. read “we’re sorry were us”, as we bow to a Saudi king.
He replaced Pres. Bush’s unilateralism with multilateralism. Though Pres. Bush had, what, 43 nations involved in Iraq and Pres. Obama can get … who?… to help in Afghanistan?
Old Scandinavian hippies want to encourage Pres. Obama… so they give him an atta boy. “
