My Nominee for the 2011 Richard Rich Award

For the few of you who don't get the reference, Richard Rich lied under oath to help convict St. Thomas More of being a traitor. When More discovered Rich had been appointed Attorney General for Wales as a reward for his perjury, More said "Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?" (A paraphrase of Mark 8:36/Matthew 16:26)

He has come to be a symbol for those Catholics who have sold out the faith in order to gain a spot in the Obama administration. Well it is time to meet the latest entrant into that dishonored group: Marlene Weisenbeck FSPA*. She is the 1 in the center of the picture below. It is taken from her farewelling last year as head of the LCWR. Which leads me to why she has been put into nomination by me for the Richard Rich Award.

I am putting her name in contention because it was announced last Friday that Obama had appointed her to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. So what you say? Well then it is obvious you don't remember her part in helping to promote the passing of ObamaCare last year.

1st of all, she was the president of LCWR when they came out in support of Obamacare. If you remember, she signed the document announcing this endorsement not once, but twice, as president of the LCWR as well as president of the local FSPA. & in addition to her former leadership of the LCWR she is the chair of the Catholic Health Association’s Sponsorship/Canon Law Committee & is a consultant in religious law. then there is her connection with another dissident "Catholyc" group, NETWORK, that also helped promote ObamaCare. Last year when she gave her farewell screed# as LCWR leader she bragged about how the LCWR "supported the efforts of the CHA [Catholic Health Association] and Network for health care reform."

& of course we all remember CHA's part in pushing ObamaCare lead by Sr. Carol Keehan. NETWORK ia another group that is a leftist dissident group posing as Catholic that is running interference for ObamaCare by using the same lies the others have about abortion not being in it.

Well, it looks like she has now gotten her equivalent of Wales. & while Obama can say he has a Catholic on the Advisory Council, you can be sure that she is anything but an authentic Catholic.

The announcement also includes a short biography. Matt K @ Badger Catholic does an excellent job of fisking that bio. He does point out 1 interesting item in that bio that I have to share. "past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a canonically approved membership organization[Can you believe they added that tidbit??? Do they have a bit of a credibility problem over at the LCWR that they have to explain they are canonically approved. And is it not sad that they use that as a weapon against the Church?] " (emphasis his)

Good question, why did they feel the need to add that bit except to provide cover for her if anyone attacks her for being anything less than a real Catholic? Yes, the LCWR is canonically approved. But if they felt the need to mention that then why didn't they mention that the CDF at the Vatican is conducting a doctrinal assessment of the LCWR because of the tenor & heretical doctrinal content of various addresses at the organization’s annual assemblies since 2001? Oh wait, that would undermine their attempts to paint her as a real Catholic rather than a dissident.

She is in good company, for the most part it looks like Obama appointed people on the same page he is. For instance, The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori. Yup "the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, where she serves as Chief Pastor and Primate to the Episcopal Church’s members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses" is another appointee. FYI her doctorate is in Oceanography. & whese she got her MDiv is a typical liberal Episcopal cemetary, oops. I mean seminary.

Then we have Reverend Elder Nancy L. Wilson who "is currently the Moderator (Global Leader) for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches which has hundreds of churches in 38 countries. Rev. Wilson is also one of the nation's leading LGBT pastors."

Andrea Bazán "For many years, Ms. Bazán served as a member and was Chair of the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization." Leftist & radical were conveniently left out.

Bishop Mark Hanson is the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In 2009 2009, the ELCA's Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis voted to allow congregations to call and ordain gays and lesbians in committed monogamous relationships to serve as clergy.

There are a couple of Pro-life people appointed. But it is clear they are in the minority. & they are there more because he had to have those groups represented for appearances sake. You can be sure they won't be listened to very much.

I'm sure she will fit right in. & I am just as sure she will continue her efforts to undermine authentic Catholic teaching as well as do all she can to ensure the Catholic Church comes under attack for preaching the truth.

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*FSPA stands for Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. In her case it stands for Fake-Catholyc Sellout Promoting Abortion.

# The line from that speech that gets me the most was where she said "Grounded in a sublime principle of the Second Vatican Council, we wait in stubborn hope for truth to impose itself by virtue of its essence as it wins over the mind with both gentleness and power.” HUH???????????? Only those who have sold their souls to the "false Spirit of Vatican II" that Bishop Nickless said should be exorcised could a person come up with something so perverted & claim it was authentic. Her "stubborn hope" is that Jesus, who is "Truth" won't come back & impose himself. When He does she will find out that the "stubborn hope" she talks about will be revealed to be defiant rebellion & unwillingness to repent of sin & submit to Jesus as Lord.

Earlier in the speech she said "Some call it deconstruction. Now we are in the time of the Resurrection Waltz of re-integration. This still point of the turning world is where the dance is. We must shore up the foundations that make hope possible, live in hope and not just wait or look for it – ‘fierce faithfulness,’ this is called.” Still point-dance? Then I have to ask why so call pacifists use language that has violent overtones? (fierce faithfulness, impose) I won't go into how she twists the definition of Trinity as well as reimages jesus into her image & likeness.

Sources: Catholic Health Association Gets Kickback for Obamacare OK
Kickback: President Obama appoints dissenting nun who helped pass Obamacare to Faith-Based Council
Obama Administration rewards another pro-abortion nun