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Many Bishops have spoken out about abortion -- especially the stand that Pelosi and Biden took. It applies to all REAL Catholics (although I don't call them REAL Catholics!)

Updated: American Bishops who have spoken against Pelosi

Here is the complete list of American bishops who have responded to Nancy Pelosi's comments so far:

1. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver was the first American bishop to respond
2. ... Bishop James Conley, his auxiliary, joined him
3. Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington DC responded twice, first in a press release and second in a statement to The Hill. He has also appeared on Fox News, I am told.
4. Cardinal Justin Regali of Philadelphia, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities, issued this statement through the USCCB website...
5. ... Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, chairman of the Committee on Doctrine, joined him
6. Cardinal Edward Egan of New York publised a strongly worded statement of his own
7. Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo issued a letter correcting Pelosi's claims
8. Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh and...
9. ... Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs have chimed-in
10. Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio, CNA reports has added his voice ...
11. ... Bishop Oscar Cantu, his auxiliary bishop, has joined him
12. Bishop William Murphy of Rockville has published an extensive letter
13. Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa has a detailed response
14. Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas has joined the USCCB's efforts
15. Bishop Gregory Aymond of Austin is on-board
16. Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston mentions the USCCB on his blog
17. Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando has written at length
18. Archbishop John Nienstedt of Saint Paul/Minneapolis challenges Pelosi's statement
19. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the US Bishops, has weighed-in
20. Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, OR publishes in the Catholic Sentinel
21. Bishop Jerome Listecki of La Crosse, WI responds in a word document
22. Bishop Richard Lennon of Cleveland, OH will comment in his September 5th column (PDF)
23. Bishop Ralph Nickless of Sioux City, IA has one of the very best responses I've read
24. Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco has invited Pelosi to a "conversation"
25. Bishop Glen Provost, LA: "Catholic Church clear on when human life begins"
26. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn: "Judging the Candidates"

{Last updated on September 10th.}

Notes:

• Previous #23 has been removed. Bishop Joseph Gossman of Raleigh, NC is actually the bishop emeritus, and the new bishop, Michael Burbidge has not, to my knowledge, made a personal statement.
• Previous #16 has also been removed, it was an erroneous duplication of current #13.
• #26 was added September 10th, although he published his column September 6th

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[Aliska]

Many Bishops have spoken out about abortion

That's a higher number than I realized. Thank you. My only point was that what was bolded was as clear as day to one such as myself. Sometimes there is some ambiguity in church writings (to me like Chaput until I had read the whole thing and asked what is he really saying, like is he leaving wiggle room?), comes across like they just don't want to come right out and lay it on the line and offend someone. So often the talk sounds like they are walking on eggs. This one, the pope?, didn't is all I was trying to say.

That's just my take on it, and it wasn't meant to offend. I had just received in the mail a clipping about Burke sent by my friend who is not Catholic. That clipping annoyed me because I saw it for what it was. He infuriates her, but it was mainly about that Polish? church. Well, he's gone now. So I felt a duty to clarify my position about Burke. I've been solidly behind him on his stance about abortion wrt pro choice politicians.

Maybe other countries have accepted abortion more passively than ours. Sometimes with all the flak, I wonder if God is on our side or not from the looks of things. I accept on faith, but try very hard not to be self-righteous, that he is and pray in anguish about it very often. It's a difficult subject to debate in an even-handed manner with those who are opposed elsewhere, and a lot of times I just stay out of it because it ends up like so much else, getting shouted down, insulted, and intimidated by those who oppose us.

Here we are more or less preaching to the choir and getting positive support from like-minded individuals. Usually.

Here is a video FWIW I just stumbled across, but it's appropos, don't know if you've seen this or similar or not:

Obama Gets Shouted Down... "Abortion is an Abomination"