The Vatican Press Office released a note this morning detailing part of the conversation which Pope Benedict XVI had with Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vatican insiders relay that such releases are always phrased in diplomatic language and thus the correction of the Speaker who fancies herself a faithful Catholic despite her abortion advocacy can be taken as a rebuke.
The text of the note reads: "His Holiness 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 which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to 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."
Sad thing is, this is wasted on Pelosi, who has already sacrificed her core faith on the altar of Leftist Political Expediency. Its not that the Church is not teaching, it is that Pelosi refuses to heed the teaching. IMHO, she should stop calling herself Catholic, and should be refused communion due to being excommunicated latae sententiae (self-excommunicated by her own acts). If her Archbishop had the courage to act he could make it quite clear. |