Posted on 06/16/2014 2:35:20 PM PDT by NYer
Just who the hell does Nancy Pelosi think she is?
For decades she has said to her catholic critics that they should mind their own damn business.
Now she’s telling her archbishop that their “shared love for [their] Catholic faith” dictates that he can’t march in support of real marriage this Thursday:
“Pelosi, who is one of the country’s most powerful Catholic politicians, made a passionate appeal to the archbishop in a letter [link below] obtained by The Chronicle not to participate in the National Organization for Marriage’s June 19 march on the Supreme Court in Washington.
[...] The San Francisco Democratic leader is the most influential in a parade of public figures who have come forward to protest the San Francisco archbishop’s participation in an event that is also backed by the Family Research Council. Critics have called the organizers “hate groups” that are targeting gays and lesbians.
Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, along with a host of Bay Area religious leaders, sent a joint letter to Cordileone protesting his plans to attend the march.
Some 20,000 people have signed an online petition by Faithful America demanding that the archbishop cancel his appearance.” [San Fransisco Chronicle]
I can think of about a thousand things that Nancy Pelosi and Archbishop Cordileone should have a chat about. Her lecturing her archbishop on the church’s teaching ain’t one of them.
The gall of this woman is unbelievable. And what she and dozens of politicians are doing by publicly demanding that the archbishop withdraw from the event should anger us. Because if the church is our family, we need to respond when our family is under attack.
Let’s understand the circumstances surrounding this milestone, because it is a milestone for dozens of politicians to tell an american archbishop that he is so wrong about his own faith that he is morally at fault when he acts in the public square in accordance with his conscience.
After all, dissenting Catholic politicians used to claim the right to quietly dissent from the church’s teaching on marriage. Now they refuse to acknowledge the right of Catholic bishops to quietly support the church’s teaching on marriage! That’s quite an “evolution”.
It’s also quintessentially hypocritical. The very same politicians who have hidden behind their “right” to dissent are now perfectly willing to force their view on the archbishop now that they feel their position is in the ascendancy.
The normal means of correcting a politician who distorts church teaching should be employed. The last time Pelosi horribly twisted the church’s teaching on an important issue (abortion) dozens of bishops publicly corrected her. I hope dozens of bishops publicly correct her again and I hope they stand by their brother bishop (and thereby, stand up for church teaching). Doing so would help repair some of the damage.
But seriously, do any of us truly believe that one more public rebuke will matter one iota or alter one scintilla of Pelosi’s views?
Pelosi can still do damage and cause scandal because she can still claim to be Catholic. To the average bystander, and to lots of Catholics, Pelosi is as Catholic as you or me. She goes to Mass. She receives Communion. She refers to herself as Catholic and talks about her faith in the public square. Sure, some bishops don’t always have nice things to say about her, but they never do anything about it. Pelosi herself seems to believe that she is still safely within the fold.
If words can’t reach Pelosi, maybe excommunication would.
Such a dramatic act would not only serve as the necessary wake-up call to Pelosi, it would also help protect the rest of us.
If politicians think they can lecture an archbishop about what he should and shouldn’t do, you can bet they also believe they can use the power of their office to dictate what you can and can’t do. There is no neutral ground in the marriage fight. That is, there is no neutral ground and no compromise until we stand up for our beliefs as strongly as the Nancy Pelosi’s of this world are fighting for their view. They are not going to stop with forcing you to bake their cakes. They’re going to make you eat it, too.
What can we do? Plenty.
1) We can support the March for Marriage, where Archbishop Cordileone will be speaking, by attending it in person if we are nearby or attending virtually. Help get the word out about the march!
2) We can support marriage and Archbishop Cordileone this Thursday on social media, and by prayer all week! Be loud!
3) Most important of all, we can all commit to doing something, no matter how small! Write a letter to the archbishop in support. Make a small donation to the archdiocese of San Francisco. The possibilities are endless!
This is my response. What will yours be?
UPDATE: Here is a copy of one of the letters sent to Archbishop Cordileone — this one signed by California politicians, gay groups and liberal religious leaders (including the executive director of New Ways Ministry and the executive director of Dignity USA). I’m still looking for the letter that Pelosi sent — if you have access to a copy please share it!
She won't. She's only 66.
Feinstein is 80!
did she make the comment at the communion rail?
From Catholic League:
CATHOLIC LEAGUE
FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Pelosi’s Unmitigated Arrogance
June 16, 2014
Bill Donohue comments on Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to the March for Marriage later this week:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi does not simply reject the Catholic Church’s teachings on marriage, abortion, and contraception—she is a rabid foe of the Church’s positions. Now she has gone beyond her usual stance by lecturing her archbishop on the folly of marriage, properly understood.
On June 19, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will speak at a Washington rally organized by the National Organization for Marriage. Pelosi is urging him to cancel his plans because the event is not supported by her homosexual friends. Her unmitigated arrogance was on full display when she invoked a remark by Pope Francis. “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will,” the Holy Father said, “then who am I to judge him?”
The pope’s comment had absolutely nothing to do with the institution of marriage; he was addressing homosexual individuals. Moreover, he said nothing that any of his predecessors would have found disagreeable. Here is what he has said about marriage: “The image of God is the married couple: the man and the woman; not only the man, not only the woman, but both of them together.” Someone ought to read that to Pelosi. The pope did not say that the image of God is the married couple of a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. That’s because such unions have been denied by nature, and by nature’s God, of creating a family.
When gays go naked in the streets of San Francisco, and mock Catholicism in patently obscene ways, Pelosi is never offended. What offends her is her archbishop’s public defense of the Church’s teachings on marriage. Nice to know what her moral compass looks like.
Contact Pelosi’s communications director, Drew Hammill:
drew.hammill@mail.house.gov
Phone: 212-371-3191
E-mail: pr@catholicleague.org
The proper response to Nazi from her bishop is that she should go to mass this Sunday and get down on her knees and thank god her communion privileges have not been revoked.
Wikipedia says she was born March 26, 1940 (I think the sort of thing Wikipedia is reliable on) -- doesn't that make her 74?
Evidently the stretched face fooled them.
I've always wondered -- does she really or just for photo ops? Of course, she could have found a church like John Kerry's purported parish -- the Paulist Center of Boston -- where they "adapt" the Creed and claim only to be IIRC "a worship community in the Catholic tradition."
Yes, it does.
You're correct. I was wrong.
SOLUTION: EXCOMMUNICATE THE BITCH!
Didn’t she also lecture her Bishop several years ago stating that the Church did not have a position of when life begins? Sounds like just another one of her heretical statements.
Don't wrap me in your morals... Catholicism!
The truth is I was never a part of you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I broke my promise
So keep your distance
I broke my promise
So keep your morals!
AB should reply:
“Dear Nancy,
I have a better idea.
I’ll go ahead and participate in the March for Marriage.
But, how about you quit calling yourself “Catholic” since you don’t seem to believe or practice any of the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
LOL!
Time to publically formally ex-communicate the Beyotch! Let her know and put the Kennedys and Kerry’s on notice that this $hit will not be tolerated anymore!
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