Posted on 06/20/2013 3:55:11 PM PDT by Morgana
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s comments that defending late-term abortions is “sacred ground” to her was apparently the last straw for a national organization of Catholic priests active in pro-life work.
“As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this. I don’t think it should have anything to do with politics,” she continued saying about the bill to ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks.
In an open letter to Pelosi, Priests for Life says her comments make a “mockery of the Catholic faith.”
“With this statement, you make a mockery of the Catholic faith and of the tens of millions of Americans who consider themselves “practicing and respectful Catholics” and who find the killing of children — whether inside or outside the womb — reprehensible,” the letter says.
“You speak here of Catholic faith as if it is supposed to hide us from reality instead of lead us to face reality, as if it is supposed to confuse basic moral truths instead of clarify them, and as if it is supposed to help us escape the hard moral questions of life rather than help us confront them,” Father Frank Pavone continues in the letter. “Whatever Catholic faith you claim to respect and practice, it is not the faith that the Catholic Church teaches. And I speak for countless Catholics when I say that it’s time for you to stop speaking as if it were.”
“Abortion is not sacred ground; it is sacrilegious ground. To imagine God giving the slightest approval to an act that dismembers a child he created is offensive to both faith and reason,” the letter adds. “And to say that a question about the difference between a legal medical procedure and murder should not “have anything to do with politics” reveals a profound failure to understand your own political responsibilities, which start with the duty to secure the God-given right to life of every citizen.”
The letter from Pavone concludes: “Mrs. Pelosi, for decades you have gotten away with betraying and misrepresenting the Catholic faith as well as the responsibilities of public office. We have had enough of it. Either exercise your duties as a public servant and a Catholic, or have the honesty to formally renounce them.”
During the press conference, in response to a reporter’s question, Pelosi was upset to be asked about the gruesome abortions and infanticides done by Kermit Gosnell and indicated she opposes the bill the House approved to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Pelosi falsely called the bill a ban on all abortions.
“They would make it a federal law that there would be no abortion in our country,” Pelosi said.
Maureen Ferguson, Senior Policy Advisor for The Catholic Association, blasted Pelosi’s comments in an email to LifeNews:
“After witnessing firsthand the atrocious human rights abuses taking place inside America’s late-term abortion clinics it is amazing that this did not touch Nancy Pelosi’s heart. What we learned from the Gosnell trial and what we understand is going on inside other clinics is not only human rights abuse but it also puts women in harm’s way. The only difference between the Gosnell ‘after-birth’ abortions and legal late-term abortions is the location of the baby at the time of death. And contrary to Pelosi’s extreme claim that the Franks bill is ‘disrespectful’ to women, the majority of women are opposed to late-term abortions according to a recent Gallup poll.”
As The Weekly Standard first reported, below is the video of Pelosi’s remarks:
Pelosi has never been a Catholic. She is a Satanist through and through.
Liberals think they can say just anything at any time, and bear no consequences. At least some members of the Catholic priesthood are finally awaking from their Democrat coma and standing up to this foul witch on behalf of the Church they are supposed to represent.
Fr. Pavone is sadly a LONE voice....her BISHOP and PRIEST need to contact her....although in reality, she has EX-communicated herself from the Church. If she doesn’t REPENT, there’s only one place for her to go or eternity.
The fact that he spoke up makes her bishop look really bad. I am glad one priest is at least saying what needed to be said long ago.
Oh, so TRUE!!!
It will be interesting to see if the Church has the guts to excommunicate her.
Maybe, the new Pope will order, absolutely order ex-communication of these murderers of babies who profess to be Catholics.
Paging Pope No-Hypocrisy Francis....
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Opposition to abortion is not (just) founded on Church teachings. It is about the natural law - the very being and essence of all humans. The Church did not invent opposition to abortion, it comes from the essence of being human.
Liberalism is the denial of human nature.
It is the sacred and historic duty of the Bishops to excommunicate heretics. This vile women and others like her who acquiesce to the wanton killing of innocent human life must be formally excommunicated. The bishops lack of action is confusing to the faithful and damages the moral standing of the Church.
She's an old lady and it won't be long before she has to face her maker. I want to see what happens when she gives Him one of her flip comments on abortion.
Seriously? Hell no they don't.
There will be no response from the respectful katholick to this letter.
In fact, I predict she exercises her free will and excommunicates the Pope.
Pelosi should be very publicly excommunicated. Her Bishop should break out the old bell, book and candle ritual where the bishop rings a bell to evoke a death toll, closes a holy book to symbolize the ex-communicant’s separation from the church, and snuffs out a candle knocking it to the floor to represent the target’s soul being extinguished and removed from the light of God.
Almost every Catholic I talk with, on this subject, says she has excommunicated herself by her stand on abortion.
To me this is complacency at best, and implies that no one has to say anything more about it, much less DO anything about it.
She’s excommunicated. Done, by definition.
Well, I’m a different sort of Catholic, then.
You are right
Abortion and many of the policies of the left violate Natural Law as well as economic principles.
That is why I say you cannot argue with them logically. They follow an internal logic that is believed by presumption. They are irrational and the opposite of irrationality is not reason but force.
I do not like the implications of that statement but it appears to be the truth
I am not a Roman Catholic, but was raised in the Anglican Catholic faith (just so you know where I am coming from).
Now, consider myself unaffiliated - an “unchurched” Christian.
We only need to follow Him, read what He teaches us in the Bible, and take an honest inventory of our personal failures, and feel very deep personal grief that we have failed, and always will, to reach perfection, as He has taught.
We must ignore those who use His Name in vain, to glorify themselves as associated with a particular “sect”.
We should pray for Nancy Pelosi’s soul, for she has no real understanding of true faith. She is a Catholic In Name Only. (a CINO), and we should pray for the salvation of her soul.
She knows not what she does. But, those of us us who are also struggling with our own failures do not need to ignore hers. We must pray for her as we do ourselves, for we all have failed in His eyes.
Let us pray that He opens everyones’ eyes, and that His will be done on earth, as in heaven, and that we keep on fighting, while remembering that we are not perfect, either,
I gather it is an offense in Catholicism to falsely excommunicate another. However, were Catholics to get a group of non-Catholics to follow Pelosi around, performing mock ex-communications of her while wearing clerical garb, if nothing else it would make for amusing street theater.
Go for the whole bell, book, and candle thing. Maybe it would “rustle her jimmies”.
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