Priest tells Vatican academy Obama's policies lead to totalitarianism

May-11-2009
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Belgian priest told a Vatican academy that U.S. President Barack Obama's pro-abortion policies will lead the United States toward totalitarianism.

"By removing legal safeguards for the protection of life," Obama will increase the number of victims of criminal laws, said Father Michel Schooyans, a retired professor of theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

A democratic society that allows people in power to invoke "subjective 'new rights' that allow for the elimination of certain categories of human beings is a society well on the way to totalitarianism," he said May 1. the rest