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
She can call herself NICE but it doesn't make it so.
BUMP
Yes. Ordinarily, it's up to the individual to stay away from Communion if he's in a state of mortal sin, because there's no way for the priest to know that.
But in the case of a famous politician, like Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, or Nancy Pelosi, most likely the priest would know what the situation was. Especially if there was advance warning that the pol would be there for Mass.
That's why I was curious to know whether Pelosi went up for Communion at either of these masses. I don't watch TV and I haven't heard anything about it here in the forum.
I think you may have misaddressed that remark to me.
Thank you for this one though:
God Bless You!!
God has indeed blessed me. I have a wife, 4 adult children, 12 grand children and 1 great grand child, all in good health.
Im sorry.....too much WINE!!
OK...DO IT!! We all need an "AHHHHH"!
Did the federal funding for research on existing stem-cell lines stop or expire?
Yep. Guess he thinks the symbolic act of washing his hands absolves him of cowardice and pelosi of sin
What a sad state our churches are in.
The author needs to do a little more homework. Baltimore is in a different archdiocese. Not much Wuerl can do about it. Now Cardinal Keeler is the one Mr. Smith should address.
Anybody who issues a press release about going to church is really missing the point.
OMG!! He is BEAUTIFUL!!!! What's his name?
One of the things that has been bothering me is that if indeed Nancy Pelosi was allowed to receive the Eucharist over the weekend, even though she supports the destruction of the unborn, then what's the point, for those of us who do our best to follow the teachings of Christ and the Church, to go to confession before receiving the Blessed Sacrament? (I know... I know...)
Where is the moral compass for the rest of the faithful? If those that are lukewarm in their faith, or even completely hostile to the church's teachings, face no consequences for their actions, what does that say to the rest of the Catholics?
The church will have to eventually make a stand, or lose complete credibility in the meaning of the sacraments.
Isn't a priest's duty first to save souls? If they see someone who is committing a mortal sin, are they not obligated to get that person into a confessional before receiving the Eucharist?
If nothing happens to these people, we have defamed the Eucharist, and will plunge even further away from what is holy and sacred.
Get real!!!! You aren't even Catholic and have NO idea of what you say!!! He doesn't have a THING to do with Evil Pelosi using Trinity College!!
YES....but it's up to the Priest at TRINITY COLLEGE where she went to Mass!!! We don't even know of SHE did GO TO hOLY cOMMUNION!! My guess is that Trinity College is LIBERAL!!! APOSTATES!!
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