Pelosi Has Disconnected Herself from Both Faith and Reason

CNS News ^ | 6/26/13 | Fr. Frank Pavone

[rhema]

Rather than answer the simple question as to what is the moral difference between killing a baby outside the womb or inside the womb, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has criticized me and Priests for Life, of which I am the national director, for raising the issue in an open letter, calling us arrogant, medieval, hysterical, and disconnected from the Church.

I would like to know if Mrs. Pelosi, in her charges that we are arrogant, medieval, and hysterical, intends to include the more than 14,000 people (and counting) who signed onto my open letter to her in just the past few days. Rather than resorting to name-calling, she should answer the question all of us have raised.

In refusing to answer this question, and instead choosing to criticize the messenger and then assert her own version of Catholicism, Mrs. Pelosi repeats the same display of avoidance and inconsistency as she exhibited at the June 13 press briefing that prompted my letter in the first place. Continuing to support dismemberment abortion, and refusing to explain its distinction from murder, she has disconnected herself from both faith and reason.

Priests for Life will not allow this to go unchallenged.

As for her assertion that she might pay attention to a more intellectual letter, the beginning of an intellectual approach to this discussion is to answer the simple question that started the discussion. Mrs. Pelosi refuses to take that first step.

The open letter to Mrs. Pelosi continues to receive thousands of adherents each day from across the country.

In her interview with ThinkProgress earlier this week, Mrs. Pelosi said, "I grant the Church where they are on abortion. That's where they are, that's where they have to be. But my faith isn't about what their position is."

The beautiful thing about Catholic Faith is that it is not some kind of mysterious knowledge available only to elites or to the person holding it. Rather, it can be plainly understood by prince and pauper, young and old, educated and illiterate. We can all recognize when it is embraced and when it is rejected. Mrs. Pelosi has clearly rejected it, stating again that her faith is not what the Church teaches.

We don't need to consult the Catechism to know that terrorism is wrong - reason makes this plain. And yet, those who flew airplanes into our buildings were, all the while, professing their faith. You also don't need to know theology or be a priest to conclude that tearing a baby apart limb by limb is wrong - reason likewise makes this clear. Yet, Nancy Pelosi has done it again - she's trying to use faith talk to escape what both reason and Catholicism teach about abortion, and to escape answering this simple question: "What is the moral difference between killing a premature newborn and aborting a baby?"

Editor's Note: Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

[TexasRepublic]

Pelosi is no more Catholic than the devil.

[Zionist Conspirator]

She is a liberal’s liberal. No aspect of your life should be free from government meddling.

EXCEPT

When it comes to killing your baby. In that one isolated case she is a pure Ayn Rand Libertarian.

They're all like that.

[GBA]

She wears the Beast's mark and her vanity proudly.

Pray for her tortured soul.

She has little time left.

For now, Satan uses her and her defections to cause Jesus pain.

Soon, Satan himself will personally repay her with his eternal focus on causing her pain and suffering.

To be honest, such statements were just childhood bedtime stories to me not so long ago.

Thanks to obama and his fruit's motivation, in my renewed quest as a seeker I've found more than enough in recent years to show me it's actually God's honest Truth. And I haven't been in a church since Bush the younger was president.

Mulder was right. The Truth is out there, and it's easy to find! If you seek it, it will come to you.