Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, according to the Right Wing Watch blog, likened Obama's "radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda" as violating the First Amendment and proving the president's "intent on following a similar path" as Hitler and Stalin in a Saturday address.
Jenky went on to claim that American Catholics are currently in a "war" due to the Obama administration's ruling on birth control and other issues:
"May God have mercy especially on the souls of those politicians who pretend to be Catholic in church, but in their public lives, rather like Judas Iscariot, betray Jesus Christ by how they vote and how they willingly cooperate with intrinsic evil."
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria aimed to clarify Jenky's comments Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reports.