Oh boy (or girl!), what are we to do with our fellow Catholic Nancy Pelosi?  Does she really think we are that dumb?  I have gone back and forth between concluding that she really doesn’t understand the issue and her faith, and the more likely explanation that she got caught trying to craft another nonsensical argument to cover her unwavering support for abortion.  Here she is on Meet The Press from Sunday when asked when life begins:

“As an ardent practicing Catholic, uh, 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, uh, Senator — uh, I’m — Senator — Uh, St. Augustin’ (sic) said at three months.  We don’t know.  The point is is that it shouldn’t have an impact on a woman’s right to choose.

Denver’s Archbishop Chaput and Auxiliary James Conley have released a statement.

Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air is excellent:

Membership in the Catholic Church is voluntary.  If people do not want to follow its doctrines, they should find another faith community that reflects their values — and at the least, they should learn what the Church teaches on abortion and life before mischaracterizing it on national television.  Pelosi is either a fool or a liar, or perhaps both.

Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh, a non-Catholic, summed up the issue quite well:

Now, look, don’t misunderstand me on this, folks.  You’ve got a lot of liberal politicians who, for their own purposes, from Mario Cuomo to John Kerry to any number of them, will twist the Catholic Church’s doctrine abortion to fit their own personal desires to attach firmly the Democrat political policy dogma and this sort of thing.  The way Cuomo did it, he did it at Notre Dame University, he went to Notre Dame University, and he said, “Of course I understand the sanctity of life, I’m pro-life and so forth, but I cannot impose my political will, my religious views on people.  I cannot impose my religious views on the rest of the country.”  Yet he was perfectly comfortable imposing his tax views on the rest of the country and every other view he had.  But it was just a cop-out to allow him to remain pure to Democrat policy.  But neither Cuomo nor Kerry nor any of the others has ever come along and spoken for the Catholic Church like Pelosi did yesterday on Meet the Depressed.  That’s the arrogance and hubris.  I don’t care whether she said the Catholic Church’s doctors or doctrines, some people say she might have been saying “doctrines,” doesn’t matter.  She was speaking for the Catholic Church, and that’s brazen.  This is going to come back to bite.  The, quote, unquote, third most powerful woman in the United States of America telling the world what the Catholic Church’s official position on life is, the church cannot let this stand.

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