Posted on 03/19/2010 5:02:28 PM PDT by Jeff Gardner
Nancy Pelosi flunks Catechism class (again)
In a press conference today, so-called Catholic Nancy Pelosi said that she was praying to St. Joseph the Worker for the passage of health care. This was apropos, the speaker claimed, since today, March 19, is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. Unfortunately, as with many other of her pronouncements about the Catholic Church, Pelosi is clueless. March 19th is the feast of St. Joseph Husband of Mary!
How ironic that Madame Pelosi should invoke a Saint to pass a bill (one that would expand abortion by 30%) who laid it all on the line to save the unborn Christ.
Pitiful
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Saint Joseph also known as Joseph of the House of David, Joseph the Betrothed, or Joseph the Worker) is known from the New Testament as the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Talk about casting the first stone :)
They are the same guy. This was a slip of the lip not a major gaff.
Get Thee to a nunnery.
There is a separate feast day for St. Joseph the Worker. It’s May 1st.
Pope Pius XII established the new feast day of Saint Joseph the Worker on May 1 in 1955. May 1 is the Communist Labor Day and Pius wanted a Catholic alternative.
Somehow, invoking St. Joseph to help on a bill that will kill the unborn just seems...
a. wrong,
b. a waste of energy
c. foolhardy
d. evil
e. shows a lack of proper catechesis
f. all of the above.
True. But her mistake was minor, not like a “57 states” or other gaffs that are ignored by the media.
THE SEVEN SORROWS AND SEVEN JOYS OF ST. JOSEPH
Joseph, Mary and Jesus: A Model Family
Season of Announcement - Revelation to Joseph
In hard times, don't forget about the humble carpenter Joseph
Saint Joseph: Complete submission to the will of God (Pope Benedict XVI) (Catholic/Orthodox Caucus)
St. Joseph as Head of the Holy Family (Catholic/Orthodox Caucus)
St. Joseph, Patron of a Peaceful Death [Catholic Caucus]
Octave: St. Joseph, A 'Man’s Man', Calling Men to Jesus
St. Teresa de Avila's Devotion to St. Joseph (Catholic Caucus)
Catholic Men's National Day of Prayer, MARCH 15, 2008, The Solemnity of St. Joseph (Catholic Caucus)
The Role and Responsibility of Fatherhood - St. Joseph as Model
St. Joseph - Foster Father of Jesus
Nothing Will Be Denied Him (St. Joseph)
The Heart of a Father [St. Joseph]
Quemadmodum Deus - Decree Under Blessed Pius IX, Making St. Joseph Patron of the Church
Father & Child (An Evangelical Minister preaches on St. Joseph)
March 19 - Feast of St. Joseph - Husband of Mary - Intercessor of civil leaders
St. Joseph's Spirit of Silence
St. Joseph's Humility (By St. Francis de Sales)
St. Joseph [Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary], Solemnity, March 19
The Heart of St. Joseph
MORE THAN PATRON OF HOMES, IT'S TIME FOR ST. JOSEPH TO GAIN HIGHEST OF RECOGNITION [Fatherhood]
The Importance of Devotion to St. Joseph
St. Francis de Sales on St. Joseph (Some Excerpts for St. Joseph's Day 2004)
St. Joseph: REDEMPTORIS CUSTOS (Guardian Of The Redeemer)
(Saint) Joseph the Patriarch: A Reflection on the Solemnity of St. Joseph
How I Rediscovered a "Neglected" Saint: Work of Art Inspires Young Man to Rediscover St. Joseph
For a Catholic, it is a major gaaffe!
Catholic Nancy Pelosi said that she was praying to St. Joseph the Worker
Noted.
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