Not much hope of a turn around, but with Christ all things are possible:
Benedict XVI is urging legislators to uphold the sanctity of human life according to Church teaching, he affirmed in an meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Pope received Nancy Pelosi and her entourage briefly today after the general audience, reported a Vatican communiqué.
He “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,” the Vatican reported afterward.
The Pontiff added that these teachings “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.”
Pelosi, naturally, didn’t take the hint – rather than addressing her pro-abortion fanaticism, she opted for lauding the Pope for being a leader on global warming. An issue I was unaware the Pope was leading on. From what I can tell, and pardon me if I haven’t been paying attention, the Pope has been rather on and on about life, morality, human solidarity and such…haven’t heard a lot of pontifical statements on greenhouse gasses.
Be that as it may…
The day of reckoning is coming for American Catholics who presume to have it both ways – be liberal on social issues and remain Catholic. Really, there is no way to reconcile the two. One can be in favor of massive – event socialist – levels of welfare spending and remain a good Catholic, but one can’t be in favor of liberal abortion laws, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, etc, etc, etc and remain a good Catholic. The Pope and other Church leaders are repeating loud and clear the message that a Catholic in the public square must advance Church teaching on the crucial issue of Life, or cease to claim the name of Catholic. Push will come to shove in the next few years, and the Pelosis, Bidens, Kennedys and Kerrys will have a choice to make – renounce their Catholicism, or renounce their culture of death actions.
I do wonder how it will come out – whether our erring brothers and sisters will repent, or whether they attempt to split off and form some sort of “American Catholic Church” where they’ll pretend to be Catholic and then make trouble for the actual Catholic Church in law and regulation? Time will tell.
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