Pope Benedict strongly rebukes Pelosi over abortion
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Pope Benedict / Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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Vatican City, Feb 18, 2009 / 10:18 am
(<http://www.catholicnewsagency.com>CNA).- House speaker Nancy
Pelosi's photo-op with Pope Benedict XVI turned sour when the Pontiff
used the 15-minute meeting to reaffirm the teachings of the Catholic
Church on the right to life and the duty to protect the unborn.
No photo of Nancy Pelosi and the Pope will be forthcoming, since the
meeting was closed to reporters and photographers. The two met in a
small room in the Vatican just after the Pope's weekly public audience.
Immediately after the meeting, the Holy See's press office released a
statement saying, "following the general audience the Holy Father
briefly greeted 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 to natural death which enjoin
all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those
responsible for the common good of society, to work in co-operation
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."
A significant number of Catholic and pro-life organizations expressed
concern over how Pelosi would use the meeting with Pope Benedict to
further her position that it is possible to be Catholic and pro-abortion.
Last August, Pelosi was rebuked by several U.S. bishops for
attempting to theologically justify her position during an interview
with "Meet the Press."
On Tuesday, Jon O'Brien, president of "Catholics for Choice," a
small, well-funded organization that provides theological arguments
to pro-abortion Catholic politicians, told The Hill that today's
visit between the Speaker and Pope Benedict would be an opportunity
to highlight that one can be pro-choice and Catholic, and that there
are much bigger issues out there to discuss, such as the fate of the
poor in the global economic downturn.
"That would be a real conversation about choice, instead of this
micro-obsession with abortion," O'Brien said.
Nevertheless, according to the Holy See's statement, the Pope spent
the whole 15 minute conversation talking with Pelosi about the right
to life and the need to defend the unborn.
A spokesman for Pelosi, who is now headed to Southern Italy as part
of her Italian tour, said she would issue a statement later in the
day regarding her meeting with the Pope.
Also, as reported by the MSM:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,495525,00.html
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