LOL
Posted on 01/26/2015 11:27:50 AM PST by jazusamo
Video at link of Pelosi's comments.
(CNSNews.com) – Responding to statements made by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi--who would not say at her press briefing last week if a 20-week-old unborn child is a "human being"--Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said that it is a “scientific fact that human life begins at conception” and that “no Catholic can dissent in good conscience” from Church teaching on the sanctity of life. At her Jan. 22 briefing Pelosi said she had "great standing" to speak on the issue of abortion, noting that she was a "Catholic and a mom of five" and asserting that it was "true" she knew "more about having babies than the pope."
CNSNews.com asked Archbishop Cordileone about Pelosi’s comments on human life, particularly in light her self-description “as a Catholic and a mom of five."
"It is a scientific fact that human life begins at conception," the archbishop said in a written statement to CNSNews.com. "This has been established in medical science for over 100 years. Catholic moral teaching acknowledges this scientific fact, and has always affirmed the grave moral evil of taking an innocent human life.
“This has been the consistent teaching of the Church from the very beginning, a teaching already discernible in the natural moral law, and so a teaching from which no Catholic can dissent in good conscience,” he said.
“It is the obligation of pastors of souls to reach out to their people who have difficulty understanding and accepting such important teachings of the Church in order to extend to them true pastoral care and, where appropriate, to establish a regular dialogue,” said Archbishop Cordileone. “This is something I have always striven to do in the various ministries I have exercised as a priest and bishop, including now as the Archbishop of San Francisco. I ask for people’s prayers for success as I continue to strive to do this."
Pelosi lives in Cordileone's archdiocese and represents San Francisco in Congress.
At her Jan. 22 press conference at the Capitol, CNSNews.com twice asked Pelosi whether an unborn child 20 weeks into pregnancy is a human being.
Pelosi would not answer the yes-no question with a yes-no answer, but did say that a woman has "the right" to abort her child.
“The fact is is what we have said: The life and the health of the mother is what is preeminent in when a decision is made about a woman’s reproductive health," said Pelosi, after declining for the second time to say if an unborn child at 20 weeks is a human being. "It isn't an ideological fight, it is a personal health issue.
"And as a mother of five, in six years, I have great standing on this issue, great understanding of it, more than my colleagues. In fact, one day many years ago, perhaps before you were born, when I was a new member of Congress, as a Catholic and a mom of five, opposing some of the initiatives similar to what--in the same vein as--what we have today, one of the Republicans stood up and said: Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope.
"Yeah, Yeah. That would be true. So, in any event, this is up to women, their conscience, their God, their doctor, their fate, their survival. And that is what the decision should be. Decisions about women’s reproductive health should not be made by politicians in Washington, D.C., but should honor the decisions that have been made by the Supreme Court, a decision made by the Supreme Court, recognizing the right of women to have that choice.”
During the press conference, Pelosi made clear that she is opposed to both the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act.
The former would prohibit the abortion of babies 20 weeks or later into gestation unless they were conceived in rape or incest, or if the life of the mother was at risk. The latter prohibits federal funding of abortion and stops federal Obamacare subsidies from going to insurance plans that cover abortion while not preventing people in subsidized Obamacare plans from buying supplemental abortion coverage--with their own money.
When is she to be excommunicated? That’s when I’ll know they’re serious.
so is the Church getting ready to (finally) “excommunicate” her?
(...or bar her from receiving the Eucharist....)
if not, this article means nothing
so is the Church getting ready to (finally) “excommunicate” her?
(...or bar her from receiving the Eucharist....)
if not, this article means nothing
Something like 1/3 of the Democrats in the House fit that description.
Yep, they use their religion to help them get elected then ignore it.
When is she scheduled to be excommunicated? I can’t wait. When? Huh? (crickets)
The article shows Pelosi for the hypocrite she is.
Exactly.
In the meantime, the Archbishop’s words are hollow and meaningless.
“... Nancy Pelosi—who would not say at her press briefing last week if a 20-week-old unborn child is a “human being”...”
Of course she wouldn’t say, but make no mistake, she knows.
The fetus is indeed human.
Pelosi?
I can tell you which one I’d choose to terminate.
The words “pastoral” and “dialogue” are euphemisms that Catholic clergy use to make it look that they are doing something in regards to CINO politicians. Actually most are afraid to do anything because they are cowards, or worse that they accept the sin of abortion.
So, because she’s the mother of five, she has great standing. Well then, my bride of fifty years and I have NINE. Is our great standing against abortion better than hers? And what of the Duggars and their anti-abortion great standing?
Liberals project their own stupidity onto those who don’t toe their party line. But, at the end of the day, it is still THEIR stupidity.
So you’re pro-choice because rape & incest are not reasons to kill an innocent person.
Yes, Pelosi is a hypocrite (as well as a number of additional things)
but the Church has not seen fit to take any action about her aggressively open promotion of (”free”) abortions on demand
and the Church has Canon Law addressing such situations
Even if they ignore him, he has to say it.
As well as the Catholic Church. They have done nothing about here or any other Catholic in congress who promotes abortion.
I couldn’t agree more that the Church should take action, it’s way past the time that they should have.
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