Posted on 08/04/2008 4:48:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she, unlike other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, has not clashed with her church about receiving communion.
In an interview on C-SPAN that aired on Sunday, Pelosi was asked about how some church officials have raised objections about whether former presidential contenders -- such as Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) -- should receive communion.
Pelosi, a Roman Catholic whose district includes most of San Francisco, said she has not encountered such difficulties in her church.
“I think some of it is regional,” she said, “It depends on the bishop of a certain region and fortunately for me, communion has not been withheld and I’m a regular communicant so that would be a severe blow to me if that were the case.”
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Proverbs 30:20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
I wonder how literal Proverb 30:20 is to be taken.
Pelosi actually said this: “my parents didn’t raise me to be Speaker, they raised me to be holy,...”
(Her parents failed.)
What is the name of her parish Church? And who are her pastor and bishop?
Severe? As in being aborted severe?
Her church is in San Francisco. I guess that says it all.
I don't want to picture Pelosi that way. Barf.
Cause of course, God's word is "regional". His words and the truth that it beholds are open to interpretation and are strictly "subjective".
So if you happen to live in Texas, homosexuality and sticking a tube into a baby's skull and sucking its brains out before chopping it up, is considered a sin...... In California, not so much.
I'm so glad that her bishop and all the great minds of Sister Pelosi's parish understand the "regional" nature of the Pope's and God's words.
The politicization of the Roman Catholic Church is an old story. Otherwise, how do the Kennedy's get to annul marriages but still receive the sacraments of matrimony in the church....yawn.
Pelosi, no matter what you spout on about your "deep faith" and love of religion.... the faithful know your hypocritical story and your constituents don't care about the church's teachings.... so why even bring it up other than to try to lie to yourself.
You'll meet your maker like all of us and then we will all be judged. I'm not liking my chances too much, so I'll probably see her later.
Because it’s more important to have a member of her stature than to actually follow doctrine.
Yes, but I want to know specifically. Catholics CAN make an issue out of this. She also has to go to Mass in DC....so I wonder where she goes during the terribly SMALL time that *her* congress is actually working?
Correct - it also means that a pedophile-enabling Bishop McCormick who took positive action to place known pedophile priests with unsuspecting parishes nationwide continues as the ‘moral leader’ for Catholics in New Hampshire and will publicly honor and support a pro-Abortion ex-Governor Shaheen who actively worked to force all hospitals in the state to offer abortion ‘services’ - to paraphrase Bill Ayers:g’Abortion supportor par excellence, Guilty as sin, honored communicant - is Catholicism a great religion or what?’
I watched this. It was another promotion piece for her pathetic book.
So. Pelosi's getting communion is hardly a surprise.
The more orthodox and traditional RC churches are being kicked out of the San Francisco Bay Area via the Board of SF Supes.
Miss America isn't lying about taking communion; she just really doesn't care as long as she gets her host.
Since nobody seems to know what church Nancy Pelosi goes to perhaps she doesn’t go very often.Perhaps she is a cafeteria Catholic and makes her own rules as when she goes to church.
“Perhaps she is a cafeteria Catholic and makes her own rules as when she goes to church.”
Ohhh... I already KNOW that she’s a cafeteria Catholic. There’s no “perhaps” about it.
““I think some of it is regional...” Yes plastic face you’re right. In other “regions” Bishops enforce Church doctrine, but your Bishop is a gutless weenie.
The point made by most of the so-called 'Catholic-bashers', was that they wish the clergy and laity of the Catholic Church were more faithful, that the bishops acted with more authority, that their just judgments were more swift, clear, and certain, and, to summarize, they wish all Catholics were more Catholic.
Could any Catholic disagree?
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