"Pro Choice Catholic" Pelosi - A New Challenge to the Church

• Didn't Take Long, by Deal W. Hudson:

  I guess it didn't take long for the dichotomy between Speaker Pelosi's professed Catholicism and her Liberal politics to rear its ugly head. A key legislative initiative she plans to tackle during the Democrats "first 100 hours" is to expand embryonic stem cell research. According to a press release from Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, this vote is scheduled for next Thursday, January 11.

  
  
• Pelosi gets her "celebration tour" Mass, despite pro-life resistance - Thomas Peters (American Papist) relays news from Philadelphia's The Evening Bulletin:

  Despite the appeals from a conservative pro-life group to prevent Speaker of the House-elect Nancy Pelosi from making a political appearance at a Mass at Trinity Washington College, Archbishop

  Donald Wuerl permitted the pro-abortion Democrat to use the Mass as a centerpiece of her "celebration" tour.

  More reaction from Judie Brown of the American Life League: Pro-Abortion Pelosi Insults Catholic Faith Human Events Online January 2, 2007. Mrs. Brown was a strong voice in the 2004 presidential elections, calling Cardinal McCarrick and other bishops to task for their lukewarm treatment of "pro-choice Catholic" candidate Senator John Kerry.
  

• Nancy-Palooza - good coverage of Pelosi's self-congratulatory promotional tour @ Amy Welborn's Open Book, in which is provided Nancy Pelosi's Record on Abortion. Amy questions:

  Will the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church let itself be played? Will it allow Nancy Pelosi to "celebrate" her Catholic roots as an act of obvious, frank political manipulation to get ethnic Catholics to start thinking Democrat again? Or will the leadership of this Church swallow its instinctive institutional self-protectiveness and pride, consider the spectacle of a Catholic who has achieved a position of political power, trumpets her Catholic identity, but is viciously indifferent to the plight of the weakest and most helpless in our society and say...Hmmm. Something wrong here. Maybe we should...do something? Maybe?

  Must-read post.
  

• Which leads the Curt Jester to wonder if the new Speaker for the House suffered a concussion as a result of her crashing through the marble ceiling.
  

Like the 2004 presidential campaign of Senator Kerry, the term of Speaker Pelosi provides Catholics with a brand new challenge. In the words of Deal Hudson:

As I read through the postings of the past few days and caught up on recent news after my long winter's nap, I was suddenly struck with a feeling of deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say. . . .

What rang familiar to me was like presidential candidate John Kerry, we now have one of the highest ranking U.S. officials -- the third person in succession for the presidency behind the president and vice president -- who claims to be Catholic while ardently supporting a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda. And like the Kerry presidential run, the Church will have a tremendous opportunity to remind her and the nation how dramatically contrary this agenda is to the Catholic's primordial teachings on life and family.