WILL THE REAL PICNOCCHIO PLEASE STAND UP

OK I don't want my blog to be about Politics.........anyone who knows me knows where I stand! I care about TRUTH and I can't believe Nancy Pelosi the Catholic speaker of the House actually lied about what the Catholic Church says about where life begins and abortion. Read for yourself!

August 24, 2008Nancy Pelosi Lied On National TV About The Catholic Church's Position On Abortion (Updated)(Update (see below): "Sometimes "Catholic" isn't all that Catholic. Sometimes, on Meet the Press, or on a convention stage -- from which Nancy Pelosi will speak tonight here in Denver -- it's just another strategic rhetorical device. Don't be fooled. And whether you're voting or campaigning, don't lose your soul to the soul of a party. - Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO)Clearly, unequivocally, and no possible doubt whatsoever, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is either a babbling idiot who makes claims and says things with no thought whatsoever as to the validity of her statements, or she callously and blatantly lied on Meet the Press today while attempting to spin the Catholic doctrine on human life. Pelosi has decided on her own that Pope Benedict's warning that Catholic politicians that support abortion risked excommunication from the Church and should not receive communion if they support abortion. She actually told Tom Brokaw that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, she has studied the issue of abortion for a long time and she knows that over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to "make that definition." ... St. Augustine said at three months. We don't know. The point is, is that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose. Roe v. Wade talks about very clear definitions of when the child-first trimester, certain considerations; second trimester; not so third trimester. There's very clear distinctions. This isn't about abortion on demand, it's about a careful, careful consideration of all factors and-to-that a woman has to make with her doctor and her god. And so I don't think anybody can tell you when life begins, human life begins. As I say, the Catholic Church for centuries has been discussing this, and there are those who've decided...She even goes on to say that the Catholic Church's present position on the pill began 50 years ago with the event of the pill. Pelosi is so typical of the liberal Democrats. They see the world and life as they want to see it, and express their distorted perceptions as such, and seldom, if ever, see the world and life as it really is based on the facts and uncontested truth. For the benefit of Madam Pelosi and the Democratic Party, Church writings specifically naming abortion as murder appear as early as 70 AD in the Didache, the first written catechism of the Christian church, and in spite of the attempts of various writers and groups, and even some church authorities and a few popes to the contrary, the history of the position of the Catholic Church that abortion is murder and that it is evil dates back as early as the Didache and remains the same to this day. And as for Pelosi deciding on her own what the position of the Church is at the time of her sitting before Brokaw based upon her own readings and interpretations - if in fact she actually did so, perhaps as a practicing Catholic, as she so claims to be, instead, might consider following her faith as her Pope and mine, Pope Benedict XVI, proclaims. (Which is what a "practicing" Catholic does) By the way, one cannot honestly say they are a "practicing catholic" and support abortion. Each position unequivocally disqualifies the other.Update: From "What Makes a Speaker Catholic? - Buying into Pelosi's personal church," by Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO on August 25th: Denver -- "If you're Catholic and you disagree with your Church. What do you do? You change your mind." (editor's note - apparently Nancy Pelosi doesn't believe this applies to her). So said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Denver, at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at 6:30 Mass on Sunday night, as the Democratic Convention was set to begin.His comments -- part of his homily during the Mass -- came hours after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, describing herself as an "ardent practicing Catholic," announced that when life begins "shouldn't have an impact on a woman's right to choose." She explained that "over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy." Ignoring both embryology and the Vatican, she insisted on giving the impression that abortion is somehow an open, undecided question in the Roman Catholic Church. But, as Chaput, author of the new book Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, explained in an interview with National Review Online last week, "Abortion always, deliberately kills an innocent unborn child. Nobody can honestly claim to be a faithful Catholic and then support a false 'right' to abortion; it's just an elegant way of evading the brutality of what abortion actually does." He explained, "Abortion is never morally justified."The archbishop's guidance echoes The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states that "Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person -- among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.""Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law," it continues.Further, it cites Vatican instruction: "The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death."It's a far cry from Nancy Pelosi's catechism which would make Roe v. Wade a sacred doctrine. The ruling, she said, has "very clear distinctions." She doesn't make those distinctions clear (nor does the Court -- contrary to popular mythical belief, the Courtdoes not ban third trimester abortions, for instance), because she really can square the circle she's trying to; she simply can't make the case that an "ardent practicing Catholic" can believe that abortion is a perfectly fine decision that a "woman has to make with her doctor and her god."