Pope Benedict Puts Pelosi In Her Place
Praise Pope Benedict!
You must remember this. Last summer, Nancy Pelosi (aka Pelousy) made this insane statement regarding the Catholic Church and abortion.
I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition … St. Augustine said at three months. We don’t know. The point is, is that it shouldn’t have an impact on the woman’s right to choose.
Pelosi immediately came under fire and didn’t even back off of her statement.
But on Wednesday, Pelosi met with Pope Benedict while on her little junket in Rome and, dare I say, she was (ahem) bitch-slapped.
ROME —Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday told Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Roman Catholic who supports abortion rights, that Catholic politicians must protect “human life at all stages of its development.”
Pelosi is the highest-ranking Democrat to meet with the pope since the election of President Obama, whose administration’s support of abortion rights worries many in the Vatican.
In a statement, the Vatican said Benedict “briefly greeted” Ms. Pelosi and her entourage after his weekly public audience and “took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death.”
The pope added that all Catholics, “especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society,” should “work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development.”
Considering her outrageous statement, this little talking-to was much deserved. Pelosi can support abortion all she wants, but her comments about the Church were completely out of line. Honestly, I’m surprised she didn’t publicly apologize for, at the least, misleading people about what the Catholic Church stands for. Alas, that would take class, something the Speakerette doesn’t appear to have much of.
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
