Posted on 05/07/2010 7:09:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday urged Catholic leaders to "instruct" their parishioners to support immigration reforms, saying clerics should "play a very major role" in supporting Democratic policies.
"The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops that come to me and say, 'We want you to pass immigration reform,' and I said, 'I want you to speak about it from the pulpit. I want you to instruct your' -- whatever the communication is," said Pelosi, who is Catholic, speaking at the Nation's Catholic Community conference sponsored by Trinity Washington University and the National Catholic Reporter.
"The people, some (who) oppose immigration reform, are sitting in those pews, and you have to tell them that this is a manifestation of our living the gospels," she said.
While it's not unusual for clergy to speak about politics from the pulpit, it is uncommon for a lawmaker to openly encourage them to preach a specific policy.
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Well the good news is that I am certain the Catholic Church shall now force catholic charities to stop their immigration lobbying.
Is there a Domestic non foreign Catholic Church?
Worked fairly well in Central America. Will it work here?
Did she ask them to Pray for the end of Abortions? I didn’t think so...
It wouldn't be the first time I walked out of a social justice homily.
‘I want you to speak about it from the pulpit.’
Nancy Pelosi, Catholic, is a baby butcher.
When Pelosi speaks I see Poltergeist 2.
God is in his holy temple
Earthly thoughts, be silent now
While with rev’rence we assemble
And before his presence bow
He is with us now and ever
When we call upon his name
Aiding every good endeavor
Guiding every upward aim
Well, it doesn't rhyme, but you get the idea.
Think you can find the place where those words are used in the Constitution?
Hint: Don't bet anything more than pocket change...
Yep, until there is an overlap in interests. Then later, they'll go back to bashing the Church.
Out of one side of her mouth she spouts the separation of Church and State yet, there she is (State) out of the other side of her mouth, exhorting the Church to do their bidding.
Double-talking apparatchik.
Getting dangerously close to government interfering with religious practice.....
I am glad that Archbishop Pelosi is speaking out against dissent in the Catholic Church! It’s about time we had a crackdown on these people. There are even people like Paul Ryan, who opposes health care, and immigration, and more spending, calling themselves “Catholics.”
She’s not imagining anything. She’s speaking to the pro-abortion “nuns” (correctly, “women religious”), priests, and bishops. “Nuns” can get away with being overtly pro-abortion. Priests have to be a LITTLE more circumspect. Bishops have be even more careful. It’s all a matter of what will attract the notice of Rome.
The “nuns” at Trinity University are a bunch of witches. And I’m not using that as a euphemism for “bitches.” I’m using it in addition to “bitches.” They have been celebrating their own “eucharist” without priests for years.
Pelosi is reminding me of the fishwife (well, of course, she has ALWAYS reminded EVERYBODY of a fishwife) in the story, who wishes for wealth, then power, then to be Pope, then to be God.
The Democrat Party is the Party of Abortion, Communism, Sodomy, and Satanism. The schismatic “American Catholic Church of Abortion and Sodomy” is the natural religious home of Democrats who want to keep up the pretense that they are not Satanists.
Archbishop Pelosi is still certified as WORTHY to receive Holy Communion by Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington. This makes him de facto Pope of the American Catholic Church of Abortion and Sodomy.
I refer to them as fudge packing baby killing socialists.
So now she’s the Pope? What unmitigated gall. Before she lectures Catholic leaders, maybe she should be a Catholic first. Not a child abuser.
Drilling a hole in a baby’s skull and sucking out the brain is the ultimate in child abuse.
>>Getting dangerously close to government interfering with religious practice.....<<
Already here. 0bambiCare (abortions and religious exemptions) and stimulus (can’t use money for buildings “primarily for religious purposes”) both interjected themselves into religion and the free practice thereof.
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