Posted on 02/07/2012 5:10:33 AM PST by IbJensen
February 6, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Even as the United States’ Catholic bishops have launched an all-out campaign against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate and urged their flocks to resistance, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has invoked the support of “fellow Catholics” to justify her position in favor of the mandate.
Pelosi was confronted at last Wednesday’s press briefing by a reporter from CNSnews.com, who began by pointing out that the mandate, which requires all employers to cover all sterilizations and contraception, including drugs that can cause early abortions, forces Catholic individuals and institutions to act against Church teaching.
Irritated, Pelosi, a self-professed devout Catholic, interrupted: “Is this a speech, or do we have a question in disguise as a speech?”
The reporter continued, citing a letter from the U.S. bishops, in which the bishops vowed not to comply with the law, and asked: “will you stand with your fellow Catholics in resisting this law or will you stick by the Administration?”
“First of all, I am going to stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the Administration on this. I think it was a very courageous decision that they made, and I support it,” the minority leader responded.
The comment came as at least 164 Catholic bishops across the country, representing over 90% of the country’s dioceses, have blasted the mandate, in many cases ensuring that letters were read to the faithful during Sunday Mass calling the mandate unconstitutional and unjust.
The question by the CNSnews reporter was not the first time Pelosi has been confronted about the apparent conflict between her political views and her claimed status as a “devout Catholic.”
In an interview with the Washington Post this past November, she acknowledged that many Catholics object to being forced to fund abortions, noting that “they have this conscience thing.”
The former speaker has also said she has “some areas of disagreement” with the country’s bishops, and has claimed that Catholicism does not necessarily condemn abortion.
Cute but WRONG!
The Catholic Church DOES NOT endorse her deceptions!
the catholics (small c) that Nancy knows are jiggy with obama’s mandates (not to mention his legislative history of voting against the “live birth protection act” multiple times...shudder)
nan’s liberal elitist acquaintances scorn the catholic yokels who are hung up on that “conscience thing”
“Say nan, how many abortions have your daughters had?”
Isn’t it amazing they spend their lives (and the life earnings of so many hard working Americans present and future) trying to rule the lives of people they hate so much
OK....all well and good!
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We're still waiting....
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Aren't you going to tell us??? We all agree with you!
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Hmmmm - ah well, I suppose it was too much to ask for. Just like our politicians, we told what needs to be done. We get all enthused about agreeing with the statement. But what never gets laid out on the table so we can all see it is the answer to this very simple question:
H O W ????
Would you agree with me, Bill, that popes since Pope Pius XII owed our maker an explanation as to why an entirely new religion was created subsequent to Vatican II?
I guess that "fellow Catholics" refers to Joe Biden and Kathleen Sebelius. But I do not see any love in the murder of the unborn by people who want to call themselves Catholics.
Nancy likes to be ambiguous. She probably does not realize that, because she clearly has a disordered mind.
Pelosi is excommunicated by virtue of her defense of abortion and euthanasia. Poof!
Other Catholics, except for that Pope dude.
Pelosi is stupid AND evil, a lethal combination.
It is not Catholic to support abortion. Abortion is baby murder plain and simple
Pelosi is excommunicated by virtue of her defense of abortion and euthanasia. Poof!
Why has this evil woman not been publicly excommunicated? No one will ever respect the bishops or respect that position of the Church until it happens.
-—A thousand years of damage in just three years.-—
The Council wasn’t the problem.
The problem was and is “the spirit of Vatican II,” as interpreted by the heresiarchs and their enablers in the media.
Consider how Pope Paul’s 1968 encyclical against artificially-induced sterility was reviled by the media, and ignored by many leaders within the Church.
Pelosi worships Karl Marx.
The stated position, that I’ve heard, is that she’s “self-excommunicated” because of her support of abortion and birth control, etc.
However, I see this as a really COWARDLY position to take on the part of the RCC.
As livius said, there should be a public and “positive” excommunication done by someone within the church. To not do so demonstrates weakness, cowardice, and defames the RCC.
Typical liberal tactic. Make people think radical beliefs are mainstream, that you are out of touch and of the minority if you have a different view. Surround yourself with a vast fictional army and go to war.
Makes you wonder what/who is going to make up the majority of the apostate church of the end times.... eh?
“The Council wasn’t the problem.
The problem was and is “the spirit of Vatican II,””
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You are absolutely correct.
Pelosi was misquoted. She actually said “I am going to stick it to fellow Catholics”
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