On Meet the Press Sunday, August 24, 2008 Tom Brokaw asked Nancy Pelosi “when does life begin?” The question was a follow up to the same one posed to Barack Obama by Pastor Rick Warren to which Obama replied, “that’s above my pay grade.”
Pelosi’s response is revealing:
“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. And St. Augustine said three months. We don’t know. The point is it that it shouldn’t have an impact on a woman’s right to chose.”
Mrs. Pelosi; as the old saying goes, “you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.”
Within hours, Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput issued a statement of clarification and chastisement of Pelosi. He documented the historical Catholic belief that life begins at conception and that from “apostolic times, Christian tradition held that abortion was grievously evil.”
Chaput went on to say, “Abortion kills an unborn, developing human life. It is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions employed to justify it. Catholics who make excuses for it – whether they are famous or not – fool only themselves and abuse the fidelity of those Catholics who do sincerely seek to follow the Gospel and live their Catholic faith.”
Heretics like Pelosi and Joe Biden, who also supports abortion and professes to be a Catholic, are giving Catholics a bad name.
Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signature for the Vatican, is absolute. He says Catholic politicians who support abortion cannot receive the Holy Eucharist, which Catholics believe is the Body and Blood of Christ. “Receiving the Body and Blood of Christ unworthily is a sacrilege,” he warned. “If it is done deliberately in mortal sin it is a sacrilege.”
Pelosi, Biden, Obama and the Democrat Party can spin it all they want. Rationalizing evil, wishing it away, doesn’t make it any less evil. They have exposed themselves as the heretics that they are willing to be, to win an election.
We have another question for Nancy Pelosi: “If you have forsaken the principles of your faith for political power, what principles guide you now?”