Posted on 02/03/2007 4:35:22 PM PST by franky
A priest writes to Nancy Pelosi:
“If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it?”
Fr. John Malloy, pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, penned this “Open letter to Nancy Pelosi,” which was recently published in the parish bulletin. We reprint it here with Fr. Malloy’s permission.
Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good Catholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change your non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic. Your record shows that you support embryonic stem cell research, Planned Parenthood, contraception, family planning funding, allowing minors to have an abortion without parental consent, and are against making it a crime to harm a fetus, etc. etc.
The fact that you favor married priests and women priests certainly would not classify you as conservative, but your answer to the question are you a conservative Catholic was: “I think so. I was raised in a very strict upbringing in a Catholic home where we respected people, were observant, were practicing Catholics, and that the fundamental belief was that God gave us all a free will, and we were accountable for that, each of us. Each person had that accountability, so it wasn’t for us to make judgments about how people saw their responsibility and that it wasn’t for politicians to make decisions about how people led their personal lives; certainly, to a high moral standards, but when it got into decisions about privacy and all the rest, then that was something that individuals had to answer to God for, and not to politicians.”
That sounds fair and tolerant, but your record belies high moral standards.
The NARAL rates you 100% pro-abortion. Your statement: “To me it isn’t even a question. God has given us a free will. We’re all responsible for our actions. If you don’t want an abortion, you don’t believe in it, [then] don’t have one. But don’t tell somebody else what they can do in terms of honoring their responsibilities. My family is very pro-life. They’re not fanatics and they’re not activists. I think they’d like it if I were not so vocally pro-choice.”
Do we not elect politicians to make laws that help people honor their responsibilities, such as protecting life itself? Can politicians not tell someone else not to kill? If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it? Oh wait, you are in favor of partial birth abortion, so-called because the baby sticks out of the “mother” about halfway, while the “doctor” sucks out the baby's brain. That seems comparable to the choice the Nazis made killing six million Jews.
Yes, Nancy, we (together with your pro-life family) would all like it if you were not so vocally pro-choice, i.e. pro-death. Until your choice is in line with Catholic doctrine, please, Nancy, do not receive the Eucharist when you attend Mass.
Rev. John Malloy, SDB San Francisco, CA
I agree. He needs all the spiritual protection he can get.
They are so perverse they want to kill the babies but save the murderers. They are morally opposed to capital punishment. What sense does that make?
My Missouri Synod Lutheran Church has a very active Lutherans for Life Chapter. We have sponsored a full-sized pro-life billboard for years. We also help a home for pregnant girls.
Have you read this article by Rev. Lamb from Lutherans for Life? http://www.lutheransforlife.org/Life_Issue_Info/Abortion/is_abortion_an_election_issue.htm
I am also LCMS.
“If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it?”
The question that cannot be answered, without changing a "baby" into a tomato, or something else
Exactly.
I'm from Minnesota and we had a case in the news last week of 2nd degree murder for the murder of an unborn 12 week baby. The father beat the mother badly and she lost the child unfortunately. I found the extreme irony so sad that he was going to be charged for 2nd degree murder (and absolutely rightly so thankfully - honestly I was shocked they charged him with this) yet millions of women every year do the same thing to their unborn children and they are applauded for being "in control of their bodies".
What a sad world we live in when society is ok with allowing one to be murder and the other isn't.
Abortion is not a convenient solution to an unplanned inconvenience, it's murder!! Ugh...
Even my wife who tends to be a democratic supporter in general understands that abortion is completely a horrible thing. Pray more people do as well.
I'm Wisconsin Lutheran...we're right there with ya...it's refreshing to see Lutheran churches who have their eyes on what pleases God rather than what pleases man...I thank God every time I attend service for the blessing of a church who focuses on Him and His Glory rather than what makes us good...Keep the faith, end abortion now!!!
My wife and I were just there last month, it is a beautiful church...It defintely stood out, particularly in S.F. It made me feel God's prescence quite distinctly as it was towering over the area and reminded all who saw the church that He is Lord of all...
From what I understand, Wisconsin Synod is as conservative or even more so than Missouri Synod. Is that right?
he'd better watch his back.
Good on Fr. Malloy!
Wish there were many more of him!!!
By conservative, I mean clinging closely to God's Word.
A priest that walks the walk.
oorah for this priest!!
Thank you for posting that. It is something all Christians should read and heed.
Could you start a Lutherans for Life chapter at your church? Our billboard is beautiful and it lets people know we're serious. Some of the Catholics in our town are very supportive of our billboard. We thank them.
The Democrat party is the party of death for innocent life. Vote for a Democrat and you vote for murder.
I pray more people see this relationship.
Not only does our Lutheran Church Missouri Synod have this active Lutherans for Life Chapter, we get a heavy dose of protecting the sancitity of life at church. There can be no mistake at our church's position.
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Fool.
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