Posted on 11/18/2011 11:23:47 AM PST by jazusamo
After having some of her behind the scenes shenanigans exposed, Nancy Pelosi has turned to her friends in the MSM to help her with damage control. The effect is something akin to watching what scrambles out after you overturn a large rock.
Pelosi sought to defend herself from allegations that she and her husband made millions from insider trading in what the Washington Post calls a wide ranging interview ...
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"I'm a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it . . . but they have this conscience thing." (Emphasis added.)
This conscience thing? As in, they have one?
And she called Cain clueless?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Baltimore Catechism dates from 1853.
Ethics and Biblicism are not part of this teaching.
A conclusion arrived at, quite obviously, by someone woefully ignorant of the topic.
Not so. Many Catholic Churches in the United States still have communion rails.
Well never say never. But, I haven’t seen an altar rail since about 1965. They were all alterred after Vat.II. I’m sure that thee a some lurking out in the hinterlands, but I could tell you where.
BTW, re spelling:
Altar, noun
1.
an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
2.
Ecclesiastical . communion table. etc., etc.
Alter, verb
To alter generally means to change something.
lol I am ignorant of many things but not my own experience. For nearly 40 years the Balt Diocese allowed parishioners to wallow in the belief that all sin is removed through participation in sacraments.
This apostasy, on which Luther's treatise is based, is what allows Pelosi and other criminals to believe that conscience is irrelevant. False teachings about the irrelevance of ethics also allowed homosexuality to run rampant in St Mary's seminary for decades.
It is clear "that concience thing" does not trouble her, the way it does real Catholics.
“I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith...”
Who honor’s “faith”? Faith in what? Faith in “faith”?
Aren’t we to HAVE faith in the LORD, and to honor the LORD?
I’ll bet that if you took of all her makeup—even that in this photo—her face could make a freight train take a dirt road.
It’s clear to me princess nan doesn’t have a conscience because of the way she’s conducted herself from the time she became Speaker and before.
I believe keats5 is correct about her “that conscience thing” becoming a Freeperism, it’ll be a dandy one.
The article doesn’t make any more sense than the excerpt. Okay, so Pelosi said that. What was the context? What was the full comment? In fairness to Princess Nancy, we ought to at least afford her the same benefit of the doubt which the MSM does not give to conservatives. In short, what did Pelosi mean by “but they have this conscience thing?” Did she go on to whine that “this conscience thing” makes it difficult for her to enjoy the spoils of her pillaging? Or did she mean that her conscience keeps her on the straight and narrow? After typing that last sentence, I realize how ridiculous it sounds, so, as Emily Litella says, “Never mind.”
‘I go by what the bible says. Of course, I’m also no longer Catholic.’
I have no clue what you mean by ‘of course.’ Would you care to explain yourself? Or do you have one of those bibles where you blacked out Matthew 16: 18-19? Ditto John 6?
We have one pope in a line of succession that Jesus gave us — he didn’t at the time of the Ascension, drop a New Testament out of the sky and say ‘good luck, y’all.’
You might consider pondering who had the authority to even decide what constituted the New Testament, and WHEN that was settled on. You might consider pondering what ‘authority’ Christians looked to to decide on questions in the time (at least a decade) *before* the first book of the new testament was even written. It sure wasn’t ‘sola scriptura’ there WAS ‘scriptura’ other than what the Jews had — which hardly spoke of Jesus being God or the resurrection or how Christians were to worship. You might consider pondering which protestant groups believe that Communion is the actual body and blood of Christ. Anglicans/Episcopals seem to think this belief is ‘optional’ and no other protestant groups believe it — yet Jesus affirmed it 3 times, and others walked. did you walk on that?
You believe in the bible, and that is right. But presumably you believe it because you believe in the faith of the believers who were first there present at the events, that they spoke the truth and they had the AUTHORITY to decide what was scriptural and what was not, and that they passed this on to the faithful.
You don’t believe in the Koran just because *that* claims to be a holy book. Why? Because you don’t believe Mohammed or his followers.
We have ONE pope. You have however many ‘popes’ there are protestant ministers! If they don’t like what they see, they each have their own brand of truth! The Holy Spirit is not the author of confusion.
Ask your minister where ‘sola scriptura’ is actually referenced in the bible. Your minister will trot out the verses which show scripture is efficacious, etc. But NO WHERE will it say ‘ONLY scripture....’
I rather suspect you were a post Vatican II baby who wasn’t really taught the faith at all. Not, by any means your fault. Though, to be sure, to be fair, Pelosi was raised pre-vatican II and she’s in a lot more trouble than you are! She should know better (ditto Teddy Kennedy, wherever his soul is — and no, Mary Jo Kopechne, can not be reached for comment!)
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