Lost in the celebrity noise of the debacle in Denver is news of Institute of Notre Dame high school graduate, Nana Pelosi, once again stepping up to the plate to divulge her truth about religious matters.
First, Nana brought us that old Sunday School favorite:
“The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' "
No word in which Sunday School she got it.
Now Nana is teaching the Church the errors of its teaching:
When Democrats decided they wouldn't let the GOP be "God's Only Party," they weren't kidding. Thanks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, none other than St. Augustine has been summoned to Denver.
He was resurrected as Pelosi was trying to respond to the question that refuses to die: When does human life begin? This time, it was Tom Brokaw asking on Sunday's "Meet the Press." Citing Barack Obama's recent pass on a similar question—"At what point does a baby get human rights?"—Brokaw asked Pelosi what she would say to Obama were he to ask her advice.
Pelosi didn't finesse her answer, as Obama did when he said the question was above his pay grade, but she may wish she had.
"I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time," Pelosi began. "And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctrines 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 a woman's right to choose. . . . I don't think anybody can tell you when life begins, human life begins."
I'm thinking there are going to be some people that will disagree. Like a Cardinal Egan:
STATEMENT OF HIS EMINENCE, EDWARD CARDINAL EGAN
CONCERNING REMARKS MADE BY THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Like many other citizens of this nation, I was shocked to learn that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America would make the kind of statements that were made to Mr. Tom Brokaw of NBC-TV on Sunday, August 24, 2008. What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age.
Go read the rest of Cardinal Egan's response at Thespis Journal.
