Posted on 08/27/2008 4:48:31 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Cleveland nun to close one night of Democratic convention with prayer
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – St. Joseph Sister Catherine Pinkerton of Cleveland is not usually one to seek the spotlight, but she will take center stage at the Democratic National Convention Aug. 27 when she gives the benediction to close the party’s third day of business.
Sister Catherine, 86, a lobbyist for Network, a national Catholic social justice lobby, will close the convention on the night that Sen. Barack Obama is expected to formally become the party’s nominee for president.
The invitation to lead the prayer came as a surprise to the veteran lobbyist, who has become a well-known figure on Capitol Hill during her 24 years with Network. She said she accepted only after informing her congregation’s leadership of the invitation.
“I didn’t know if I wanted to do that or not,” she told Catholic News Service Aug. 20. “I thought, ‘What have I got to lose?’ It’s my right to do that as an American citizen.”
While Sister Catherine is no stranger to the give-and-take world of politics, until recently her work has been limited to nonpartisan concerns related to international trade and investment. However, since April Sister Catherine has served as one of nine co-chairs of the Catholic National Advisory Council to the Obama campaign.
She said she agreed to serve on the council only after seeing the excitement the campaign has generated among young people, especially young Catholics, across the country.
“A lot of the young people with whom I’m working went double-barreled into it (the campaign),” she explained. “I thought if the young people are seeing something here and these are young kids immersed in Catholic theology and social teaching, then there’s something to this.”
After news of her role in the convention became public, calls poured in to Sister Catherine’s Washington office and her congregation’s motherhouse in Cleveland. The callers, for the most part angry Catholics, expressed concern that Sister Catherine’s appearance on the convention dais is tantamount to supporting the Democratic party’s platform, especially its unwavering support of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
A spokeswoman for the congregation said the motherhouse had received about 30 calls and a handful of e-mail messages through midday Aug. 20. Regina Sullivan, the order’s director of communications, said the congregation has told callers that Sister Catherine is taking the stage as an individual, not as a representative of the Congregation of St. Joseph.
Sister Catherine said she was paying for her flight to Denver, the site of the convention, while the party was paying for her hotel room.
Her work with the advisory council has been limited to offering advice on how to reach Catholic voters. She said the council has met intermittently over the last four months and that she has offered ideas when asked.
“The idea was they wanted to mobilize Catholic faith communities across the nation for Obama,” she said.
Aug 21, 2008
Was he a dirty vicar?
Isn’t that special?
Maybe she can say a prayer for the aborted babies while she’s at it.
How does the good sister reconcile Obama’s support of abortion and even infanticide for aborted babies unfortunate enough to be born alive? I suppose Obama’s support of social justice, i.e. socialism, out weighs abortion. She should be excommunicated along with Biden and Pelosi.
Arch Bishop Wuerl, of DC, pretty much slapped down the 'Popess' Pelosi. Now (thank you G-d) Biden is flapping his mouth that 'he too' in compliance and in good standing w/Catholic theology. One by one the leadership of the Church needs to 'correct' the publicly errant Catholics and deny them the Sacriments until they follow the Catechism. Period.
“Sister Catherine, 86, a lobbyist for Network, a national Catholic social justice lobby, will close the convention on the night that Sen. Barack Obama is expected to formally become the party’s nominee for president”
One of very many Catholic Marxists.
Some nuns are just damn, stupid tools for the Marxist movement.
We went through this stuff in the 1980s in Central America.
Let’s say it one more time - if you’re a nun supporting mass-murdering Marxists, you might get raped and murdered by the commies.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE4DF1F3EF93AA35754C0A96E958260
The Catholic smock for nuns identifies them as brides for Christ, not ammo carrying sluts for Castro.
Denver has more evil focused in it’s city limits tonight, than at any other point on the Earth. barry sits at the right hand of his father... satan.
LLS
Ooooh, wow, the ‘rats are pretending to care about what the Catholic church says....oooooh, man, I’m impressed.
I guess I’ll vote for B. Hussein.
Hey, where is Jeremiah Wright during convention week?
Sometimes, when reading the news, I get the impression that the conservative Catholics on this site are a rare breed.
Catholic ping.
“I suppose Obama’s support of social justice, i.e. socialism, out weighs abortion.”
This is what Catholics and the Roman Catholic Church in Europe have been doing for sixty years, and just look at the church attendance and standing of the Catholic Church there now - in far decline. Now, to our peril, they seek to make the same political alliances, for the same reason - “social justice” - with our American Marxists. The Marxists love and revel in the public support this gains them, while knowing, on their part, it is an alliance of convenience with no intention of ever supporting the Roman Catholic Church’s positions on the sanctity of life. The history of this process in Europe, and the Roman Catholic Church’s lament at their losses there demonstrate that the intellectuals of that church are political idiots.
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