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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says She’s Entrusted to Serve ‘in the Spirit of St. Francis’
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 3, 2019 | 3:42 PM EST | CNSNews.com Staff

Posted on 01/03/2019 11:35:51 PM PST by Olog-hai

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.), who was elected Speaker of the House this afternoon, said in her speech accepting the position that she intends to serve “in the spirit of St. Francis.”

“Let me especially thank my constituents in San Francisco, who have entrusted me to represent them in Congress in the spirit of Saint Francis, our patron saint—whose song of Saint Francis is our anthem: ‘Lord, make me a channel of thy peace’—as we beautifully sang in church this morning,” Pelosi said.

“We enter this new Congress with a sense of great hope and confidence for the future, and deep humility and prayerfulness in the face of the challenges ahead,” she said. […]

“We must fight for the middle class in a way that is fair and fiscally sound—protecting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We must also face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis—a crisis manifested in natural disasters of epic proportions. […] We will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims, survivors and families of gun violence by passing commonsense bipartisan background check legislation. We will make America fairer by passing the Equality Act to end discrimination against LGBTQ Americans. And we will make America more American by protecting our patriotic, courageous Dreamers!” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Religion; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 116th; abortion; aliens; catholic; dreamers; homosexualagenda; illegals; pelosi; stfrancis
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To: Buckeye McFrog

She’d probably say “the Pacific”, knowing her.


61 posted on 01/04/2019 10:14:31 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Oh, Lordy Lord. That loud droning noise you hear in Assisi is Saint Francis spinning in his grave. Between Pelosi who has never learned the Constitution and the marxist Pope who never saw a tenet of the faith he didn't want to revise...


62 posted on 01/04/2019 10:17:01 AM PST by Albion Wilde (A lie can travel around the world before the truth can put its pants on in the morning. --Churchill)
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To: Olog-hai

Fell fowl of a foul feather.


63 posted on 01/04/2019 2:35:15 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy

Clarification: I do not refer to the true Francis, but the man who usurped the name to join with people like Pelosi in subverting the Gospel.


64 posted on 01/04/2019 2:39:13 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Olog-hai

Is St. Francis the patron saint of Satanism?


65 posted on 01/04/2019 5:18:15 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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