Saint Benedict Catholic Formation

Just watching the electoral map, good start for Romney so far. 

Totally agree with above.
All my faith in American humanity has plummeted to a nearly irrecoverable abyss.
(There is now a possibility that the world will indeed end in December.)
 
Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Perhaps some words from the Holy Father may help keep things in perspective.

"From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge -- a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so will she lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, she will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, she will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members...In faith and prayer she will again recognize her true center and experience the sacraments again as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship."

"The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming upon a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystalization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek."

"But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret."

"And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not a Church of the political cult, which is dead already with Gobel, but the Church of faith. She will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man's home, where he will find life and hope beyond death."

"Faith and the Future," Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), 1969

While I understand that most of us are republicans (though I myself am not, I'm more of a libertarian.) And I understand why you would prefer not to have President Obama in charge, were you hoping to achieve some goal if Romney was elected? If so, what? It seems to me that the populous seems to think that the president has so much power (gasp!) and can do anything he wants. And, really he can't. Also, I found this rather odd with last Sunday, and would like to commentate on that, because we didn't go in depth to discussing it:
1) Someone expressed "Obama's going to take our guns!"
- No. No he isn't. Our government works in three branches: The Legislative, made up of the House of Representatives (WHICH is made entirely up of republicans, remember that because it's important) and the senate, The Judicial (including the supreme court) and finally that pesky Executive branch.
-The Legislative branch makes the laws, the Judicial branch interprets the laws and the Executive branch enforces those laws.
- The president has to put a bill through the legislative branch (namely, the house of representatives) in order for it to pass, and in order for it to pass, it has to be accepted by 2/3 majority vote in the House. If the president puts a bill through that is against guns, it will not pass. Because the House is entirely republican, and republicans like guns.
- Furthermore, the Judicial branch can deem any act of the president or any law for that matter unconstitutional. While Amendments can be repealed, it is a very lengthy process and takes a long time. The Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, will be called into effect. And honestly, there's still the black market. Just like abortion, people will still get their fix. It just wont be as safe, or clean.
I hate to seem rude or mean in any way. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, but I thought that that needed to be expressed because I feel that when necessary things need to be expressed, because, I think that people should know how the government works before they go on to actually do something about it. But, I understand if people do not like my ideas.
P.S.: America is getting more and more hostile towards all religions, they just prefer to pick on Catholics because they like chaos. I mean, we COULD do that crusade thing...again...that'd be pretty fun..

I know! I wanted to vote for him too, I even wrote him in on the mock election we had in school.