Posted on 03/16/2013 9:50:11 AM PDT by Morgana
One of the least Catholic and most pro-abortion members of Congress, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, has been added to the official U.S. delegation to attend the installation of newly-elected Pope Francis.
Pelosi will join pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden to attend the Inauguration Mass celebrating the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Francis, which will take place on March 19.
The news comes as newwly-elected Pope Francis used his second-ever blessing as the head of the Catholic Church to bless a pregnant mother and her unborn child. Pope Francis, who as been hailed by pro-life advocates once called abortion a “death sentence” for unborn children, during a 2007 speech and likening opposition to abortion to opposition to the death penalty.
But the former House Speaker has repeatedly clashed with and criticized the Catholic Church on pro-life issues.
In 2011, Pelosi was upset that the nation’s Catholic bishops protested the Obama administration decision forcing insurance companies to cover birth control, contraception and drugs that could cause abortions. They are upset certain religious groups may not be exempt from providing the insurance, which would violate their moral and religious views.
Pelosi saidthe position is akin to having hospitals “say to a woman, ‘I’m sorry you could die’ if you don’t get an abortion,” she told the Washington Post.
“Those who dispute that characterization “may not like the language,’’ she said, “but the truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it . . . but they have this conscience thing” that the Post said Pelosi “insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic providers strongly disagree.”
Pelosi also defended controversial remarks she made about a bill to prevent Obamacare from funding abortions, where she claimed Republicans “want women to die on the floor.”
“For a moment, I want to get back to what was asked about the issue on the floor today that Mr. Hoyer address,” Pelosi said. “He made a point and I want to emphasize it. Under this bill, when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. It’s just appalling.”
She told the Post in a new interview, that she doesn’t think the assessment went to far.
“They would” let women die on the floor, she said. “They would! Again, whatever their intention is, this is the effect.”
In 2010 Pelosi further ditched her Catholic credentials as she was unable to answer a reporter’s question about whether Jesus Christ should have had his right to life protected from conception.
Pelosi said she has an obligation to pursue public policy “in keeping with the values” of Jesus. Yet, asked by a CNS News reporter late last week whether Jesus has the right to life, Pelosi couldn’t agree.
CNSNews asked: “You said at a recent Catholic Community Conference that your favorite word was ‘The Word, as in the word made flesh,’ and that we need to quote, ‘give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the Word.’”
The reporter continued: “So, when was the Word made flesh? Was it at the Annunciation, when Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Sprit, as the Creed says, or was it at the Nativity when he was born of the Virgin Mary? And when did the Word get the right to life?”
“Whenever it was, we bow our heads when we talk about it in church, and that’s where I’d like to talk about that,” Pelosi said in response.
Pelosi has been repeatedly at odds with the Catholic Church, in which she claims membership, over the issue of abortion.
She once called on a Catholic saint to help her and her pro-abortion colleague pass a Senate health care bill that contains massive abortion funding. Not only did Pelosi upset pro-life Catholics in so doing, but she got the date wrong concerning the saint she mentioned.
Pelosi has claimed to be a good Catholic while advancing abortion at a rapid pace.
In a 2006 interview, Pelosi regretted that her family is “very pro-life” and would “like it if I were not so vocally pro-choice.” But, she proclaimed, “To me it isn’t even a question. God has given us a free will.”
Also, she said the “free will” of women wanting abortions outweighs pro-life Catholic teachings.
And those comments followed on Pelosi thanking God that the Senate health care bill funds abortions.
American Catholics support and voted for Pelosi and Vice President Biden, they are the leading Catholic politicians in America and they represent the political party of the majority of Catholic voters.
The choice makes total sense.
I realize this would only happen in my dreams, but..pelosi and biden at the rail waiting for communion and the new Pope looks at them and says *not you*, and I’m not even catholic.
Salvation dependent on works: Catholics do not believe this, however, they do accept James 2:14-26 in believing that faith without works is suspect. Anyone can proclaim they have faith. Anyone. But faith without works is indeed dead. To say that you have faith in Christ and that it has not changed your commitment to charity is suspect, is it not?
Man-made traditions: so, should we just abandon Christmas (Christ-mass), Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween (all Hallo’s Eve)? Traditions have been a part of Christianity since the 1st Century. The Catholic mass is much the same as it was during Justin Martyr’s time, that is, 100-165 AD.
I’m sure pro-abortion John Kerry too (did you know he served in Viet Nam?). It would be a good opportunity to tell the pro-abortion Catholic politicians to make other plans for communion.
I'm not an expert, but I think that might have been his specialty in Argentina.
My dear you can quote James to protestants all day but all they read is those verse in Ephesians or Romans. Why do you think Martin Luther wanted so badly to toss the book of James into the fire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmuRz-kDMM&list=LLqeEbfXEE2KjbBoBID-4SIQ&feature=mh_lolz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGp8_AnrfSY&list=LLqeEbfXEE2KjbBoBID-4SIQ
Luther also did not accept 7 verses from the Old Testament: Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Ecclesiaticus, Baruch, Ester, and part of the Book of Daniel. He also wanted to delete James, Hebrews, Jude and Revelations. Why? Because he took it upon himself to determine that these books were not inspired. Funny that from the Dead Sea Scrolls we know that many Jews accepted these studied and read these verses. Jerome himself questioned some of these books, and asked the pope at that time, Damasus, what he thought. Damasus querried the pastors of churches and they came back with an answer of “yes”, these books should be included in any canonization.
Double bonus points for the new Pope if he excommunicates Nazi Pelosi in person.
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