Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a devout anti-Catholic, infamously suggested last week that the Church has lost its right to conscience because it has failed to “enforce” this “rule” on contraception.
“Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age that are Catholic use contraception. So, in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn’t consistent to me.”
Leaving aside the bogusness of her silly statistics and the absurdity that not forcing people to pay for something is enforcing a religious rule, Nancy has a point.
Since the Pope clarified the Church’s position on contraception and human life 40 years ago, the Church has collectively and willfully looked the other way when many or even most Catholics ignored it to their own mortal peril. Not only did they look the other way, but for 40 years the Church has collectively and willfully refused to teach on these hard subjects.
For 40 years, the Church has acted as if these critical moral teachings did not matter enough to teach and now they are saying they matter so much that they are willing to go to the mattresses and even shut down the critical Catholic healthcare system over it. This is the height of disingenuousness.
February 29, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Excellent! I am fortunate to be in a parish that DOES preach and teach the hard issues. But it would help if there was a public declaration from the bishops that so-and-so (fill in various politicians here) may no longer receive the sacraments until they repent and confess. One thing that seems to be missed is that by allowing those like Pelosi to receive the Eucharist, they are allowing sacrilege to occur against that Eucharist.
February 29, 2012 at 3:04 pm
We've got the Bishops from a generation ago who didn't take a firmer stance on the Church's teaching regarding contraception. All told, we've lost the will to fight. What do the politicians care if Catholics continually contracept? Don't blame the politicians. We've let the nation down, and we've let the world down as well. The reason for this is quite simple, we Catholics are not serious about our faith. The dissent that followed in the wake of Vatican II is largely to blame. As a result many bishops and priests excusing themselves from the Church's high sexual standards, hence the sex abuse scandal. Those are big reasons why we are in the mess that we are in today. Unless the hierarchy repents and changes their ways, this kind of persecution is going to continue.
February 29, 2012 at 3:59 pm
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February 29, 2012 at 4:24 pm
In the end, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk are not right in their dismissal of the Church because they didn't enforce the law. She's trying to treat the Church as if it some kind of world-wide Interpol. How ludicrous! If a law officer shows some discression in choosing to issue a warning, rather than writing a ticket once in a while, would she say that we should throw out the traffic code? This Church is much more than just an enforcement mechanism. Certainly we would all like to see the boundaries a little more clearly designated, but I firmly believe that we should not yield one iota to Ms. P on this or any other topic.
February 29, 2012 at 5:17 pm
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February 29, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Why does this heretical monster constantly badger us with her maniacal rantings?
March 1, 2012 at 9:31 am
Must be the effects of Botox on the brain.
March 1, 2012 at 6:13 pm
If she can receive communion and meet the pope and no doubt get a Roman Catholic celebration of her life when she dies, she has way more than a point. You all want a fig leaf and they keep giving it to you so that you will give them your money, but when you go meet God, he's going to say I couldn't give a crap about the fig leaf, you knew what was going on and yet you continued to support them, not me – so go sit in hell w/them too. Read Matthew C.18