Posted on 01/08/2007 6:45:19 PM PST by Coleus
WASHINGTON, January 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Catholic in Congress is recasting her image as a Italian Catholic mother, despite her stark defiance of the Catholic Church’s teachings opposing abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage. The Speaker publicized well in advance her visits to St. Leo the Great church in Baltimore and attendance of a special Mass at Trinity University offered for victims of hurricane Katrina and of the Darfur genocide, as part of her plan to propel the image of a good Roman Catholic mother and grandmother at home in the Democratic party.
“The Catholic Mass also signals something very important,” Katherine Hall Jamieson, a liberal professor, told the Baltimore Sun. “The Democratic Party wants those defecting Catholics who have voted for Republicans for a long time but came back to the Democratic Party in 2006 to see the Democratic Party as home.” Pelosi’s much publicized attendance of the Catholic Mass at Trinity January 3rd has dismayed pro-life advocates looking to recently appointed Archbishop Donald Wuerl to correct Pelosi’s assertions that she is a “conservative Catholic.”
Judie Brown, president of American Life League, had appealed to Archbishop Wuerl to use what power and influence he could muster to deter Nancy Pelosi from making the Mass at Trinity University a political spectacle. Brown said it is “unconscionable for Rep. Pelosi to call herself a Catholic in good standing while supporting the heinous act of abortion.” “As a practicing Catholic mother and grandmother, I am highly offended that this woman would use the influence of her new office to flaunt her Catholic label while advocating the brutal murder of preborn children without apology” Brown wrote in Human Events.
“A thinking person with any sort of moral sensibilities would conclude that the bald-faced contradiction between advocating for abortion and heralding one’s attendance at a Catholic Mass is simply outrageous and should not be permitted.” Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Washington and the Archbishop, told LifeSiteNews.com that the Archdiocese had nothing to do with the event. Gibbs said Archbishop Wuerl did not interfere since Trinity University was under the jurisdiction of a religious order, the Sisters of Notre Dame, not the Archdiocese, and said she was redirecting complaints to Trinity. Gibbs did not indicate whether Wuerl intends to discipline Pelosi for her public support of abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage.
Pelosi’s Catholic Mother and Grandmother public relations ploy may be working to distract voters from her uncontradicted anti-Catholic beliefs. A Rasmussen Reports national phone survey of 800 likely voters released Friday show Pelosi's approval rating has jumped to 43 percent -- up 19 points from November. Pelosi, who has received a 100 percent rating from NARAL, a radical pro-abortion group, vowed to reinstate funding for embryonic stem-cell research in the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress.
To respectfully contact Archbishop Wuerl:
The Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl
Archdiocese of Washington
P.O. Box 29260
Washington, DC 20017-0260
301-853-4500
Secretary to the Archbishop: Rev. Carter Griffin, 301-853-4500
Archbishop Emeritus of Washington
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, 301-853-4500
Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia:
Most Rev. Kevin J. Farrell, 301-853-4520
Vicar General and Moderator of Hispanic Ministries:
Most Rev. Francisco Gonzalez, S.F., 301-853-4566
Vicar General and Moderator for Ethnic Ministries:
Most Rev. Martin D. Holley, 301-853-4563 Chancellor: Jane Golden Belford, Esq., 301-853-4520
To contact Trinity University:
Ann Pauley, Media Relations
Trinity, 125 Michigan Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20017
pauleya@trinitydc.edu
(202) 884-9725
See Judie Brown’s Article in Human Events:
Pro-Abortion Pelosi Insults Catholic Faith
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18732
See National Catholic Reporter’s interview with Nancy Pelosi discussing life as a “pro-choice Catholic” and “conservative Catholic”:
Roots in faith, family and party guide Pelosi’s move to power
http://ncronline.org/mainpage/specialdocuments/Pelosi.htm
See Previous LifeSite Coverage:
Will New Archbishop of Washington Deny Pro-Abort Nancy Pelosi Communion at Jan. 3 Showcase Mass? http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06122005.html
Pro-abortion Dem House Leader Calls Herself a “Conservative Catholic” http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/nov/02111804.html
US Bishops Set to Tell Catholics Opposed to Teaching on Abortion or Homosexuality not to Receive Communion http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06102001.html
Highest Authorities in Vatican Back Denial of Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jul/04070501.html
Madame Speaker: Anticipating how Pelosi will run the House [Catholics celebrate Pelosi]
Pro-Abortion Pelosi Insults Catholic Faith
Will New Archbishop of Washington Deny Pro-Abort Nancy Pelosi Communion at Jan. 3 Showcase Mass?
Incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to showcase her faith at Mass
Sounds like Wuerl is a coward and an enabler of great evil.
Did Pelosi actually have the nerve to say that?
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So when we will see her at Mass again? The next time a photo op is on the agenda?
If you want to get their attention, reduce your contribution until they change. You can give the same funds to other Catholic organizations that are not allowing Queen Nancy to use their facilities.
For this lackey of the abortion industry, in whose pocket she resides, to try and use the Mass for political gain is beyond the pale. Pelosi is a mean old witch, with a capital "B."
I'm not Catholic but I donate to the local Catholic Social Services, they do a great job providing help and counceling to pregnant teen agers. Encouraging them not to abort and helping after the baby is born, in many different ways.
"Pelosi’s assertions that she is a “conservative Catholic.”
OK I've got to ask,if Pelosi's a conservative Catholic,what the hell is a liberal Catholic ???
Nancy is a heretic who deserves to be threatened with excommunication for heresy.
PART II : PENALTIES FORPARTICULAR OFFENCES
TITLE I: OFFENCES AGAINST RELIGION AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH (Cann. 1364 - 1369)
Can. 1364 §1 An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of Can. 194 §1, n. 2; a cleric, moreover, may be punished with the penalties mentioned in Can. 1336 §1, nn. 1, 2 and 3.
Can. 1369 A person is to be punished with a just penalty, who, at a public event or assembly, or in a published writing, or by otherwise using the means of social communication, utters blasphemy, or gravely harms public morals, or rails at or excites hatred of or contempt for religion or the Church.
Can. 1371 The following are to be punished with a just penalty:
1° a person who, apart from the case mentioned in Can. 1364 §1, teaches a doctrine condemned by the Roman Pontiff, or by an Ecumenical Council, or obstinately rejects the teaching mentioned in Can. 752 and, when warned by the Apostolic See or by the Ordinary, does not retract;
2° a person who in any other way does not obey the lawful command or prohibition of the Apostolic See or the Ordinary or Superior and, after being warned, persists in disobedience.
Can. 1373 A person who publicly incites his or her subjects to hatred or animosity against the Apostolic See or the Ordinary because of some act of ecclesiastical authority or ministry, or who provokes the subjects to disobedience against them, is to be punished by interdict or other just penalties.
Can. 1398 A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.
Just like fat Ted and Kerry. Nothing will be done as long as the donations come in.
An Episcopalian?
Did she go up and receive communion? I haven't heard, one way or another.
It would be very difficult to tell anyone they couldn't attend Mass. Even if they were in a state of mortal sin or excommunication, as long as they steered clear of communion.
John Kerry made a photo-op of receiving communion, which was particularly egregious. But you can't very well stop someone from entering a church.
Very good,thanks for the laugh :) !!!
But the priest can deny the person communion.
Sorry, but he has NOTHING to do with this!! Her OWN PRIEST should reprimand her, not someone in BALTIMORE!!! hE DID not ENABLE evil....hOWEVER voters HAVE!!
dID YOU NOT READ THE ARTICLE? hE HAS nothing TO DO WITH Trinity !
God Bless You!!
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