Notiprofecias 7

El Presidente Bush presenta la FE como la fuerza detrás de
su presidencia

Washington (CNN) "El presidente Bush le dijo a los que asistieron
al Desayuno Nacional de Oración anual esta mañana que su fe
influencia casi todo aspecto de su vida, y que el cree que
la demostración de sus profundas creencias religiosas traerá una nueva era de civilidad a la
capital de la nación..." CNN.COM-Feb. 1, 2001

El presidente Bush dijo que la mejor manera de honrar al Papa
es tomar sus enseñanzas seriamente y ponerlas en acción en América:

"...La mejor forma de honrar a Juan Pablo II, verdaderamente uno
de los grandes hombres, es tomar sus enseñanzas seriamente; es
escuchar sus palabras y poner sus palabras y enseñanzas en
acción aquí en América. Este es un reto que tenemos que aceptar.
¿Pero saben algo acerca de nuestro país? Con el enfoque y el
liderazgo adecuado, es un reto que esta nación aceptará..."
El Presidente Bush, 22 de marzo, 2001.

Bush se reune con líderes católicos para empujar Soluciones-
Basadas en la FE

"WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 26, 01 (CWNews.com) - President George W. Bush
had dinner with a group of bishops in Washington on Thursday to discuss his
plans to work with the religious community to implement faith-based
solutions to some of America's social problems...."
Catholic World News, Jan. 26, 2001.

Bush en la Inauguración del Centro Cultural de Juan Pablo II
en Washington D.C.

Bush subrayó que este Centro Cultural pretende presentar la historia
y la vida de la Iglesia, así como los valores que defiende...El inquilino
de la Casa Blanca concluyó: "Damos gracias a Dios por este hombre
único un siervo de Dios un héroe de la historia"...Szoka, enviado especial
del Papa para la ceremonia de inauguración, entregó al cardenal Maida
el cáliz personal de Juan Pablo II que ha pasado a enriquecer las
colecciones permanentes expuestas en el museo...."
Zenit 23 de marzo, 2001-ZS01032312

"....The best way to honor Pope John Paul II, truly one of the great men,
is to take his teaching seriously; is to listen to his words and put his words
and teachings into action here in America. This is a challenge we must
accept. But you know something about our country? With the right focus
and the right leadership, it's a challenge this nation will accept, ..."
President Bush, March 22, 2001

TIME-December 26, 1994-Man of the Year Pope
John Paul II, pg. 65: "It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the
faith and the truth"

[President Bush stated on that day [sunday-Sept. 16] the Lord's Day is the Day of Faith]

"Today, millions of Americans mourned and prayed, and tomorrow we go back to work....
Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized. We're a great nation.  We're a
nation of resolve.  We're a nation that can't be cowed by evil-doers.  I've got great faith in
the American people. If the American people had seen what I had seen in New York City,
you'd have great faith, too.....We will rid the world of the evil-doers.  We will call together
freedom loving people to fight terrorism. And on on this day [sunday] of - on the Lord's Day,
I say to my fellow Americans, thank you for your prayers, thank you for your compassion, thank
you for your love for one another.....As I said yesterday, people have declared war on America,
and they have made a terrible mistake, because this is a fabulous country.  Our economy will
come back.  We'll still be the best farmers and ranchers in the world.  We're still the most innovative
entrepreneurs in the world.  On this day of faith, I've never had more faith in America than I
have right now..... Mr. President, the Attorney General is going to ask for enhanced law
enforcement authority to surveil and - things to disrupt terrorism that might be planned
here in the United States.  What will that mean for the rights of Americans?
What will that mean - THE PRESIDENT:  Terry, I ask you to talk to the Attorney General
about that subject.  He'll be prepared to talk about it publicly at some point in time.
But what he is doing is, he's reflecting what I said earlier in my statement, that we're facing
a new kind of enemy, somebody so barbaric that they would fly airplanes into buildings
full of innocent people. And, therefore, we have to be on alert in America.  We're a nation
of law, a nation of civil rights.  We're also a nation under attack.  And the Attorney
General will address that in a way that I think the American people will understand...."
The White House-Office of the Press Secretary, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001

TIME ARTICLE TELLING AL GORE AND BUSH (Dubya) WHEN THEY WERE
CANDIDATES TO THE US PRESIDENCY THAT WHILE THEY
INVOKE RELIGION, ROME HAS THE ONLY DIRECT LINE TO GOD!:

Congress continues to make big changes in President Bush's faith-based initiative. The latest
alteration to the president's faith-based initiative being discussed on Capitol Hill could gut the
legislation of its intended goal....."Frankly, after the attacks in this country on September 11, and
the importance of religion and faith in our society and the emergence it has seen, I think that more
and more are going to come around to thinking, 'Hey, these are just the kind of groups that ought [
to be able to receive government funds,' " Wood said. Cizik reiterated that all parts of the faith-based
bill are needed. "We'll see where we go from here, but it's going to take both Republicans and
Democrats and a great deal of leadership from the White House, I think, at this point in order to save
this bill," Cizik said. Wood claims the American people are already very interested in government
support for faith-based groups" LifeLine News-Oct. 7, 2001.

"Before the attack on America, critics questioned President Bush's ability to lead. Now
all that's changed, and many observers are saying the commander in chief's faith
has made the difference. President Bush is now being compared to Churchill and Roosevelt
by the same people who wondered if he had the "right stuff." Richard Cizik, of the National
Association of Evangelicals, credits Bush's faith for helping him through the transition...."
LifeLine News/Oct.3, 2001

"The leader of a ministry that fights for religious liberty and family values in the courts says
it is time to "return America to a system of higher law." Over 6,600 churches have pledged to pray
for religious liberty this Sunday, which has been dubbed "Faith and Freedom Sunday." Alan Sears,
president of the Alliance Defense Fund, which coordinates Faith and Freedom Sunday, says
churches will educate their members about the loss of religious liberty in America, and how to pray
for the courts and their country. "We have literally thousands of cases every year in America that deal
with religious freedom, with sanctity of life, and with family values," he says. "We must put this in
the hands of God. We've got to pray and ask the Creator of the universe to intervene in the affairs
of men, and we must return America to a system of higher law.".... For example, evangelists in at
least seven states have been jailed or threatened with arrest for passing out free Christian literature
on a public sidewalk. Sears says people of faith must be willing to assert themselves to protect
the right to worship, pray, evangelize and otherwise live out their faith" LifeLine News/Oct.3, 2001

"This weekend, thousands of churches will celebrate "Faith and Freedom Sunday" — a day for
Christians to pray for and learn about religious liberty. For more than 30 years, Rustic Hills Baptist
Church has used a bell to call Christians to church. But Pastor Stan Lightfoot said he wants his
congregation to look even further back for its true heritage. "Who we are as Americans stems out
of who we are as Christians," Lightfoot said. He said his heritage comes in second only to his faith.
That's why he hopes Faith and Freedom Sunday will remind folks that America's heritage is
built on Christian principles...." LifeLine News.net-Sept. 28, 2001.

"....Secondly, I'm off to Genoa, where the G-7 and the G-8 will meet to discuss how to
enhance the world's prosperity.  It really begins with each of our own countries making
sure our economic houses are in order....i
There are some who will try to disrupt the meetings, claiming they represent the poor.
To those folks I say, instead of addressing policies that represent the poor, you embrace
policies that lock poor people into poverty, and that's unacceptable to the United States.
Trade has been the best avenue for economic growth for all countries and I reject the
isolationism and protectionism that dominates those who will try to disrupt the meetings
in Genoa. And, finally, on the home front, I'm pleased that the United States Congress
easily passed a faith-based initiative sponsored by J.C. Watts of Oklahoma and Tony Hall
of Ohio.  It's an initiative that puts our federal government squarely on the side of faith-based
and community based programs, all of which exist to help a neighbor in need. The debate
has been long and arduous.  And now the Congress is beginning to act.  It's a positive
step toward making sure the American Dream extends its reach throughout all our communities.
It's a step that recognizes that government can't cause people to love one another, but
what government can do is stand side-by-side with loving individuals who are intent upon
bringing compassion and hope to neighborhoods where there may not be any. I congratulate
the House.  I urge the United States Senate to act on this measure quickly, so that the armies
of compassion which exist all across America will be invigorated and continue their march to
make sure our country is hopeful and optimistic...."
The White House-Office of the Press Secretary, July 20, 2001.

"...World poverty is ancient, yet the hope of real progress against poverty is new.
Vast regions and nations from Chile to Thailand are escaping the bonds of poverty
and oppression by embracing markets and trade and new technologies.  What some
call globalization is, in fact, the triumph of human liberty stretching across
national borders.
President's Bush Remarks to the World Bank/July 17, 2001-The White House Office
of the Press Secretary

President Bush will travel to Genova, Italy to attend the G-7/8 Summit on July 20-22.
While in Italy, the President will visit Rome to meet with President Ciampi and
Prime Minister Berlusconi.  He will also have an audience at Castelgandolfo
with His Holiness Pope John Paul II.  The President will begin his trip to
Europe with a stop in the United Kingdom for discussions with Prime Minister Blair"
The White House/June 15, 2001.

"Can Americans obliterate the need for a truth outside themselves or live as if they do?....
All Americans enjoy the freedom that modern individualism allows, but it is always
possible to have too much of a good thing. Like Clinton, many of us are individualism
junkies: We just can´t say no. We know we should accept limits, but when it comes
down to it, we refuse to impose them on ourselves. This seems to be the great American
dilemma at the end of the 20th century....Of greater long-term significance, however,
is Bush's new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives...it is an
attempt to welcome faith back into the public realm and to renew American commitment
to building authentic communities and resisting the enormous power of radical
individualism over American life. The great American experiment in individualism
will come to its end in the course of this century....

Supremacy of the Individual
In the world at large, America has come to stand for the supremacy, or at the very
least the self-sufficiency, of the individual. This was the case from the beginning,
despite the pilgrim fathers´ religiosity and the recognition of the Creator in the
opening words of the Declaration of Independence. The United States was made
by the Reformation. From the 17th century, America came to be regarded as a
Protestant Israel, the promised land for the elect and the righteous remnants of the
rapidly multiplying reformed denominations. Whatever the differences between
these groups, one conviction was common to all: Every individual was his own
priest. Revelation, salvation, and truth were for the individual to find for himself
directly, not through the Church. The Enlightenment of the 18th century reinforced
this conviction in a secular form. Any counterinfluence the Catholic Church might
have exerted in America during this time would have been weakened by its
poverty, its numerical inferiority, and the hostility of the Protestant majority that
kept Catholics on the margins of public life, which had a profound influence
on American culture well into the 20th century..." Catholic Net-Hot Topics by
M.A. Casey

The Bible study begins each day at 8 a.m. sharp, with Attorney
General John D. Ashcroft presiding. A group of employees gathers at the
Main Justice building in Washington, either in his personal office or a conference
room, to study Scripture and join Ashcroft in prayer. Ashcroft held similar
meetings each morning as a U.S. senator and sees the devotionals as a
personal matter that has no bearing on his job as attorney
general, according to aides....But within the massive Justice Department,
with about 135,000 employees worldwide, some who do not share
Ashcroft's Pentecostal Christian beliefs are discomfited by the daily
prayer sessions -- particularly because they are conducted by the
nation's chief law enforcement officer, entrusted with enforcing a
Constitution that calls for the separation of church and state..."
Washington Post.com/May 14, 2001.

``....To work around these organizations as if they are somehow `radioactive'
because we presume they are proselytizing, because we presume they can
do nothing other than sectarian worship, is just the height of civic irrationality,''
DiIulio said in a recent interview..." The Miami Herald/April 22, 2001.

Resolute pastoral action is needed in dealing with sects
3. One of these is to preserve, defend and increase the integrity of the faith.
Consequently, with my confirmation and ratification, the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith last year published the Declaration Dominus Iesus on
the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church. In this
Declaration, I invited all Christians "to renew their fidelity to him in the joy
of faith and to bear unanimous witness that the Son, both today and tomorrow,
is "the way, and the truth, and the life' (Jn 14: 6)" (Angelus, 1 October 2000).
In this regard, we need to pay special attention to the problem of the sects,
which are "a grave hindrance to the work of evangelization" (Ecclesia in
America, n. 73). They have been much studied and discussed, since they
are a phenomenon that cannot be regarded with indifference. Resolute
pastoral action is essential for dealing with this serious problem, by reviewing
the pastoral methods used, strengthening the structures of communion
and mission, and making the most of "the evangelizing possibilities of a
purified popular religiosity" (Ecclesia in America, n. 73). In this regard,
you know how important is the presence of evangelizers, since wherever
priests, religious or lay people are dedicated to the apostolate, sects do
not thrive. Although faith is God's gift, it cannot be instilled or maintained
without the help of evangelizers. In the process of strengthening the faith,
the Eucharist is the privileged place for meeting the living Jesus Christ.
Sunday Mass must be a constant commitment and practice of all the
faithful. Continually dedicate yourselves and, at the same time, pastorally
commit your priests to the task of promoting this very important aspect
of ecclesial life, which I already recommended in my Apostolic Letter
Dies Domini (cf. Chapter II). Therefore it is necessary, as I recently
recalled, "to stress particularly the Sunday Eucharist and Sunday itself
experienced as a special day of faith, the day of the risen Lord and of
the gift of the Spirit, the true weekly Easter" (Apostolic Letter Novo
millennio ineunte, n. 35)...." L'Osservatore Romano-April 4, 2001.

WASHINGTON – "The Bush administration will delay action on parts of its
plan to channel more government money to religious charities, until it can
quiet some of the surprisingly vehement opposition to the program, the
Washington Post reported Monday....The White House expected church-state
separation groups to object to the program. But it didn't expect a chorus of
doubts from religious conservatives such as Pat Robertson and even Marvin
Olasky, one of the program's early architects. They worry that churches
would be corrupted by government regulations or that objectionable sects
would be rewarded....

WASHINGTON - President Bush is being lobbied by religious leaders and
faith-based environmental groups to change his position on global warming
and mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Bush, a born-again
Christian, was told in letters delivered Tuesday and last week that climate
change is not merely a matter of science and economics, but a moral imperative.

Fingerprints of your hand may soon be used to buy groceries
etc...
"The day will come when you put your finger on a scanning device
to prove who you are before you engage in transactions at
retail stores, ATMs, banks and even when you buy groceries.
One company making such a device is engaged in a pilot project
with the nation's largest grocery chain..." NewsMax.Com-March 31, 2001

John Paul II Cultural Center Web Page

WASHINGTON -- President Bush is reaching out to Roman Catholics,
courting one of the most important groups of swing voters whose support
has gone increasingly to Republican presidential candidates in the
last three elections...."

Bush also issued a proclamation declaring today a National Day of
Prayer and Thanksgiving, urging Americans to spend their Sunday
in prayer and reflection, recalling "all that unites us."
Washington Post/January 21, 2001/pg A 18.

Amnesty wants US to ban the sale of tools of torture

"Christian conservative Pat Robertson of Virginia Beach, one of President
Bush's backers during the presidential campaign, said he has significant
concerns with Bush's plan to let religious groups compete for federal grants.
Robertson said Tuesday that he worries about government funding religious
groups that are outside the mainstream, such as the Church of Scientology,
Hare Krishnas or the Unification Church...."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moving quickly upon taking office, President George W. Bush
on Saturday issued an order that essentially blocked some of the last-minute executive
orders and rules laid down by outgoing President Clinton.....The memo, released less
than two hours after Bush took the oath of office as America's 43rd president, followed
Bush's campaign pledge to ``restore honor and dignity''....Reflecting his deep religious
convictions, Bush also signed a proclamation declaring Sunday a ``national
day of prayer and thanksgiving'' to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power
between him and Clinton...."

"Church and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity,
and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our laws." White House Press Office

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush told attendees of the annual National Prayer
Breakfast this morning that his faith influences nearly every aspect of his life, and that
he believes demonstration of his deeply held religious beliefs will bring a
new era of civility to the nation's capital...." CNN.COM

Professor John J. Dilulio, Jr., a Catholic political scientist from the University of
Pennsylvania, who was just appointed as the head of the new Office of Faith
Based Initiatives....This meeting is the beginning of that partnership"

Bush Meets Catholic Leaders To Push Faith-Based Solutions

"WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 26, 01 (CWNews.com) - President George W. Bush had dinner
with a group of bishops in Washington on Thursday to discuss his plans to work with the
religious community to implement faith-based solutions to some of America's
social problems...."

"This is a matter that must be watched very closely," says Hodges. "President Bush
has made it very clear that these federal grants will not fund religious enterprises,
but only those social services that are clearly humanitarian in nature. While we would
prefer to keep the separation between church and state as clear as possible, this is
an item we can live with if the proper safeguards are maintained."

Hodges says the Adventist Church in North America has long advocated the principle
of separation of church and state as the best way to ensure a healthy independence
for religious groups and to prevent the possibility of religion-based discrimination
in the distribution of state funds"

"Ambitious plans to help European Union citizens move more freely between
countries during the course of their working lives may include giving every
person an individual "EU social security number"...."

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF
BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVES

"....It's legislation that says to the United States Congress, let us fund the faith-based organizations
all across America.  Let's give them a chance to compete for federal dollars.  Let's not lock them
out just because they have the word, "faith" in front of their program.  After all, faith-based initiatives
and programs can change people's hearts.  And when they change people's hearts, they change
people's lives.  And a changed life is much more likely to be a person --
peaceful, respectful person...."