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Catholic Bishop who compared Obama to Hitler wants anti-Obama letter read from pulpit - VIDEO

Peoria bishop issues pre-election letter to parishioners telling them to vote GOP

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DARA KELLY,
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Published Friday, November 2, 2012, 7:24 AM
Updated Friday, November 2, 2012, 11:31 AM

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A controversial Illinois Catholic bishop, who compared Obama to Hitler earlier this year, has ordered an anti-Obama letter to be read from the pulpit during mass this coming weekend. 

Last April, Bishop Daniel Jenky said in a homily that President Obama “now seems intent on following a similar path” to Adolf Hitler because of his “radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda.”

With the Presidential election just days away, Bishop Jenky ordered priests in his diocese of Peoria to read out the following letter during each mass this weekend, according to the National Catholic Reporter. Catholics represent 25 per cent of all registered voters.

"Since the foundation of the American Republic and the adoption of the Bill of Rights, I do not think there has ever been a time more threatening to our religious liberty than the present," Jenky wrote in th letter circulated to clergy in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.

"Neither the president of the United States nor the current majority of the Federal Senate have been willing to even consider the Catholic community’s grave objections to those HHS mandates that would require all Catholic institutions, exempting only our church buildings, to fund abortion, sterilization, and artificial contraception.

"Nearly two thousand years ago, after our Savior had been bound, beaten, scourged, mocked, and crowned with thorns, a pagan Roman Procurator displayed Jesus to a hostile crowd by sarcastically declaring: Behold your King. The mob roared back: We have no king but Caesar.

"Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord. They are objectively guilty of grave sin.

"For those who hope for salvation, no political loyalty can ever take precedence over loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and to his Gospel of Life. God is not mocked, and as the Bible clearly teaches, after this passing instant of life on earth, God’s great mercy in time will give way to God’s perfect judgment in eternity.

"I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this Diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic Faith."

Bishop Jenky: Obama like Hitler, Stalin 

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EphraimKibbey | Nov 05, 2012, 05:45 PM EST
irishamerica46 - Ike sent in advisors and JFK had planned on removing them but Dallas got in his way. LBJ made it a shooting war for us and kept doubling down. Nixon promised he had a "Secret" plan to get us out while on the campaign trail but did nothing until late in his presidency and then it was done VERY poorly. I lived it! As a Republican, I even voted for Nixon, a quaker like my mom, to my shame. Just shows how much a man's religous affiliation speaks for his real character. I agree with you 100% on Afganistan but our only ground route out lies through a very DANGEROUS Pakistan. We must get our kids out SAFELY not helicoptered off some roof with the enemy closing in. We must also get all our stuff out so that it does not come flying back at our troops in the future. If staying another year or two means SAVING American lives, then I will let Obama LEAD. He seems to have done pretty well so far at cleaning up the messes left by the previous administration. It WOULD be nice though if the other side of the aisle would quit pouting and give him some help. As for cutting money to the military, sequester was voted for by both sides assuming the commission could compromise. Ryan and company demanded "My Way Or the Highway" and refused to negotiate. Here we are thanks to THEM. Hopefully, after Obama wins, they will be more reasonable facing the financial cliff of 2013. Meanwhile Mittens comes up with 2 billion more for defence that the pentagon doesn't want. Mr. Mittens Dufus.

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pilib04 | Nov 05, 2012, 10:49 AM EST
mreinhar2001, you don't have to be alive during World War II in order to have read the history. Hopefully all students learn about the Holocaust and Nazis. As for this bishop, he's a tool.

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seanomelb | Nov 04, 2012, 06:09 PM EST
Frosty38!! It was a case of the tail wagging the dog. The Dem controlled legislature forced Romney to compromise. Can someone tell me if he was a one term governor and if so why did he lose???

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irishamerica46 | Nov 04, 2012, 05:04 PM EST
EphraimKibbey, remember also who got us into Vietnam and then remember who got us out. Our young people should be brought home from the Middle East now. Not tomorrow. It's a war like Vietnam that cannot be won.Bring them home and don't cut money for the military.Off topic, I don't care.You even brought up Hoover.

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mreinhar2001 | Nov 04, 2012, 01:13 PM EST
Lokelani: Just exactly how old are you? You wrote "when I recall during WW2 how the 'one true Church' helped the Christian villains rather than the Jewish victims during the holocaust!" If you actually lived during WWII in Europe, you would have "seen" (for real) otherwise.

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charlie0491 | Nov 04, 2012, 10:11 AM EST
Just another AH with a collar.

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Lokelani | Nov 04, 2012, 04:47 AM EST
I agree with what Brnmar1 has to say. This whole article smacks of hypocrisy and to think that this Illinois bishop would even dare compare Obama to Hitler, when I recall during WW2 how the "one true Church" helped the Christian villains rather than the Jewish victims during the holocaust! I feel this Bishop is talking from his pocketbook, (wants that Romney tax break) not from his heart; he is insulting the American voters intelligence and the bishops should just stay out of it; I think we can make up our own minds, thank you. I am for Obama and that's who I'm voting for.

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EphraimKibbey | Nov 03, 2012, 11:55 PM EDT
Frosty38 - Magical Mitt the Mendacious SAYS he worked with Democrats in Mass. as Governer. His idea of working WITH them was to veto a record number (over 700) of their bills passed by both houses. Of course they also over turned his veto a record number of times. How much does Mass. love Romney? He was down 28% the last poll that I saw were they know his style of governance best. Most of the liberal clips and quotes that you see were while he was campaigning. Lies roll off his tongue like raindrops in a downpour. Those who believe him do so at their own peril.

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Frosty38 | Nov 03, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT
As for Gov. Mitt Romney, while we may have seriously considered the man who served as Massachusetts’ governor, a man who sought bipartisanship in the Legislature, who forged the blueprint for healthcare reform, a man who was a voice for women’s rights, to our great chagrin the candidate for president is not the same man. Nor have we forgotten how he abandoned that post in the last years of his governorship.

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Brnmar1 | Nov 03, 2012, 10:33 PM EDT
In answer to someone who wrote that former Mormon bishop Myth Romney had more 'godly values,' than President Obama. Adolph Hitler was once described as having "godly values" too. Hitler and the National Socialists (Nazis) came into powers in the 1930s because he represented a moral movement that spoke against the sexual promiscuity that had engulfed the German cities. All the members of the Nazi army had German Christian crosses on their uniforms. They saw themselves as the best examples among Christians. Just like the Mormons now, who says that they only are the 'true' Christians. There are too many people who hate President Obama to such a degree, that they are willing to elect a man from a secretive cult who has a messiah complex to the presidency of the United States of America. We are being tested by G-D, and our choice may lead to another world war by electing a self-righteous holier-than-thou nut from a wacky cult who constantly changes his positions on issues in order to be elected.

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seanomelb | Nov 03, 2012, 07:30 PM EDT
The bishop should be careful. It doesn't take to many twists to turn a cross into a Swastika ask any evangelical right wing gun totin Christian.

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EphraimKibbey | Nov 03, 2012, 06:36 PM EDT
irishamerica46 - Its Sooo easy and Soooo CORRECT to blame Cheney/Bush as they *** **** near destroyed America. They sent our military into harms way for a personal feud with Saddam and ignored the real killers of 9/11 (I don't know where Bin Laden is and I don't care - Thanks W. from all the families of his victims!.) They sucked the surplus of the Clinton administration dry and kept on sucking until we were borrowing to pay for two off-budget wars and their immoral taxcuts for the wealthy. They cut regulations on polluters, on Banks and on Wallstreet leaving our country in the worst mess since the great depression (another GOP gift - Thanks Mr. Hoover!) And things have NOT gotten worse over the last four years, they have gotten much, much better than the conditions in which those War Criminals left us. We are GAINING jobs not LOSING them now - DUH! Where have you been? Watching Fox again? Stop it, you'll hurt your brain!

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trconnors | Nov 03, 2012, 06:12 PM EDT
Its jerks like this who has helped destroy the catholic church. I cant get far enough away from the pedophile protecting catholic hierarchy. As a young, catholic youth I admired the church trying to save souls and teach us to love all. Now they are just political miscreants who have abandoned what they where ordained to do. They are a disgrace!!!!!!

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Bocktherobber | Nov 03, 2012, 04:40 PM EDT
Irishpjk -- Every time I read a comment as uninformed as yours, it makes me wonder how America survives.

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irishamerica46 | Nov 03, 2012, 03:41 PM EDT
Proud Canadian. It's always so easy to blame Bush.That excuse is really getting old. The past 4 years is what is important. Everything has gotten worse. No promises kept.Kids living in cars, more homeless on the streets,foreclosures on every street, Ambassadors ing killed,But I'm sure it's great in Canada.

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