The Pope and Pelosi

You may know that Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has been in Italy this week. She's met with Italian government officials, but also met with the Pope yesterday.

Many people have anxiously awaited this meeting because Mrs. Pelosi is an ardent pro-abortionist and pro-contraception (as seen most recently in the Porkulus bill where millions were earmarked to shower our land with condoms, for everyone not just the legally married). Both of these positions are in strict opposition to the teaching of the Catholic church, not to mention that Nancy calls her self an ardent, practising Catholic!

Here are the two press releases that came out after the meeting. One from the Vatican and the other from Madam Speakers office:

From the press office of the Holy See:
Following the General Audience, the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage. 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 until 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 development.

From the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
It is with great joy that my husband, Paul, and I met with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, today. In our conversation, I had the opportunity to praise the Church’s leadership in fighting poverty, hunger, and global warming, as well as the Holy Father’s dedication to religious freedom and his upcoming trip and message to Israel. I was proud to show His Holiness a photograph of my family’s papal visit in the 1950s, as well as a recent picture of our children and grandchildren.

Were the Pope and Nancy Pelosi in the same meeting?

Here is where Mrs. Pelosi stands on the issue. Notice in the interview she incorrectly states the position of the church saying "St. Augustin said life begins at 3 months"; not true. She states that the church's stance that life begins at conception has only been around for "about the last 50 years"; completely false!



Side Note: In that clip we see Barak Obama tell us that to say when life begins is above his "pay grade". What a cop out! If I read between the lines that must mean that he doesn't know for sure. And if he doesn't know that must mean that he must allow for the possibility that life does begin at conception. And if that is a possibility, he still errs on the side of death. May God have mercy.