Can Pelosi Have it
Both Ways?
Mt. Freedom, NJ -- The Movement for a Better America, a
pro-life educational organization headquartered here, has joined Judie Brown,
President of the American Life League, in appealing to America�s Catholic
bishops to denounce �pro-abortion Catholic politicians who attempt to use their
faith to political advantage.�
MBA President Dennis Howard agreed
with Brown that �it is unconscionable for Rep. Nancy Pelosi to claim that the
Catholic faith is an important part of her life while she relentlessly,
categorically denies the teachings of the Church by supporting the killing of
children through abortion.� He agreed that Pelosi is �using the Catholic faith
to soften her continued support of abortion on demand.�
"It would be quite different if she were repentant, but she hasn't given the slightest indication of any change in her pro-abortion position," he said.
Howard, a retired journalist, once
interviewed the late John Cardinal O�Connor, who told him: �A great many
bishops are no longer amused by politicians who don�t practice their
Catholicism in their political life.�
He recalled that O�Connor was hailed at his funeral for �his great
legacy � the reminder that the Church must always be unambiguously pro-life.�
Howard said, �I think it�s time
bishops reaffirm that legacy and show that they are, indeed, no longer amused
by pro-abortion politicians who would like to have it both ways -- to parade
their Catholicism for political advantage and then turn around and betray
Catholic principles at the expense of the unborn.�
Pelosi has been making scheduled
stops at Catholic churches in Baltimore and Washington during her �celebration
tour.� She was also scheduled to attend
Mass at her alma mater, Trinity College, and to attend a non-denominational
prayer service at St. Peter�s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill.
Said Howard, �I would not call
Church cooperation in such appearances as being �unambiguously pro-life.� They
are more than ambiguous. They are a scandal to a great many confused Catholics
to whom Church teaching on abortion has not been made clear through effective
pro-life evangelization.�
Howard, whose organization has
been tracking abortion data since 1992, pointed out that the abortion toll
recently passed 48,374,700.
He added: �Politicians like Pelosi show no hesitation
in deploring the death of over 3,000 of our heroes in Iraq over the last three
years, yet they don�t shed a tear for the totally needless death of 3,700
unborn children every single day here at home. I don�t care what party she
belongs to. Such inconsistency deserves condemnation.�
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