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Ralph Moore (CR, Jan. 15) likens Barack Obama to Moses, Elijah, Elisha and John the Baptist. A “prophet,” speaking for God, would not stand by while millions of innocent lives are terminated. Under President Obama, abortions will increase and laws that were enacted to restrict abortions will decrease; hardly what John the Baptist had in mind! How sad that our first African-American president vehemently disregards the unborn. The “certainty of his vision” includes a promise to Planned Parenthood to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which will force Catholic hospitals to abandon the church’s position on the sanctity of human life. Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America, has 78 percent of its clinics in minority communities. No surprise as founder Margaret Sanger created the Negro Project to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed undesirable to society. She said, “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” The “certainty of her vision” will be fulfilled through politicians like Barack Obama. In the words of Martin Luther King’s niece, Alveda King, “Abortion, like slavery, is based on the lie that certain human beings aren’t entitled to basic human rights because they aren’t fully human.” Millions of voices are crying out from their mothers’ wombs! You speak of hope, Mr. Moore, but hope has never been further away for the unborn.

Our pope spoke (CR, Jan. 8) eloquently and let us hope persuasively about the global economic crisis when he said “are we ready to read it in all its complexity as a challenge for the future and not just an emergency needing short term responses?” The pope’s prescription needs to be taken seriously. The politicians and their economic advisors speak of getting the economy going again, to get back where we were when consumer spending was up and businesses were prospering again. Their prescription is more consumption in a society already satiated with things, and more debt to pay for that consumption.

I am a high school senior at a Catholic school. The article “Here comes the sun … across the mountaintop” by Ralph E. Moore Jr., (CR, Jan. 15) caused me great concern. President Obama is called a prophet. The biblical prophets were spokesmen for God, and supposed to be models of holiness. Are we to look to President Obama as a model of holiness?

Russell Shaw (CR, Jan. 8) rightly encourages the “Catholic left” to re-evaluate President-elect Obama’s pro-abortion ferocity. Here we are on the goal line facing his administration’s jumbo package Freedom of Choice Act. “Freedom of Choice” is golden. Major manufacturers advertise products as “America’s Choice!” “The Right Choice!” or “The Choice of Today.” The American psyche was founded on freedom and choice.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has struck a positive tone as it opens relations with the administration of President Barack Obama, emphasizing hopes for cooperation on issues of peace and social justice, and – for now – downplaying differences on moral questions like abortion.

WASHINGTON – With a new president and members of the House and Senate sworn into office, officials of U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities have something to crow about, with a whopping 52 members of the 111th Congress who are alumni of their institutions.

WASHINGTON – During the Easter season, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change plans to publicly unveil a “Catholic Climate Covenant,” a new initiative to make U.S. Catholics more aware of what they can do to stem climate change and its effects.

When fire destroyed the novitiate house of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1945, building a new one was essential. But how can one raise $1 million, let alone $3 million?

WASHINGTON – Kevin Ryan, the new president and CEO of Covenant House, is no stranger to the pressing needs today’s troubled youths are facing.

WASHINGTON – The national pro-life postcard campaign being conducted in parishes throughout the country is a way for Catholics who supported Barack Obama for president to tell him if they did so despite, not because of, the new president’s stand on abortion, according to officials of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life office.