HOUSE CHAPLAINS

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

Katharine Jefferts Schori has a new job:

President Barack Obama announced Feb. 4 that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori would be joining his administration as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to be of service to the larger community in this way,” Jefferts Schori said, according to a press release from the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs. “The ability to build partnerships between civic and religious bodies can only expand our capacity to heal a broken world.”

The council “brings together religious and secular leaders as well as scholars and experts in fields related to the work of faith-based and neighborhood organizations in order to make recommendations to the government on how to improve partnerships,” a White House press release noted, adding that the president will announce additional members at a later date. Each council serves a one-year term.

Obama said, “I am pleased to announce that these experienced and committed individuals have agreed to join this administration, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead.”

Meaning: nothing in particular. All these people will do will be to robotically slap a coat of “spiritual” varnish on anything Obama wants to do. This appointment will, however, give the mainstream media another chance to give Mrs. Schori more publicity and claim that she’s an Important Christian Leader^TM again.