Pelosi: ‘Don’t mess with me’
Roll Call
Dec 5, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was walking off stage
after her weekly press conference when James Rosen, a reporter with Sinclair
Broadcast Group, asked if she “hated Trump.” The House Speaker, walked back to
the lectern to challenge the comments, invoking her Catholic faith and saying
“I don‘t hate anybody.”
Cardinal Burke:
Nancy Pelosi ‘must’ be denied Communion
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Patrick Craine News Faith Fri Sep 20, 2013 - 3:33 pm EST
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Raymond Burke has
issued an emphatic call for pro-abortion Catholic politicians like House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to be denied Communion.
The cardinal also spoke about the rapid advance of the
homosexual agenda, the decline in catechesis that, he says, has crippled the
Church’s response to pressing moral issues of the day, and the growing danger
of Christian persecution under an increasingly “totalitarian” government.
The cardinal, who heads the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura
and is America’s most senior prelate, made the comments in an interview
published earlier this month by The Catholic Servant, a
Minneapolis-based newspaper, and republished by The Wanderer.
Asked about Pelosi, he said, “Certainly this is a case
when Canon 915 must be applied.”
Canon 915 states that those who are “obstinately
persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
“This is a person who obstinately, after repeated
admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured
abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic,” the cardinal said. “I
fear for Congresswoman Pelosi if she does not come to understand how gravely in
error she is. I invite her to reflect upon the example of St. Thomas More who
acted rightly in a similar situation even at the cost of his life.”
The cardinal also urged the faithful to practice “much
prayer and fasting” to counter the growing threat of the homosexual agenda.
“The alarming rapidity of the realization of the
homosexual agenda ought to awaken all of us and frighten us with regard to the
future of our nation,” he said. “This is a work of deceit, a lie about the most
fundamental aspect of our human nature, our human sexuality, which after life
itself defines us. There is only one place these types of lies come from,
namely Satan. It is a diabolical situation which is aimed at destroying
individuals, families, and eventually our nation.”
“The fact that these kinds of ‘arrangements’ are made
legal is a manifestation of a culture of death, of an anti- life and anti-
family culture which has existed in our nation now for some time,” he said.
Catholics have not engaged the battle for the family
effectively, he said, “because we have not been taught our Catholic Faith,
especially in the depth needed to address these grave evils of our time.”
“This is a failure of catechesis both of children and
young people that has been going on for fifty years,” he continued. “It is
being addressed, but it needs much more radical attention.”
“There is far too much silence — people do not want to
talk about it because the topic is not ‘politically correct,’” he added. “But
we cannot be silent any longer or we will find ourselves in a situation that
will be very difficult to reverse.”
The Cardinal said Catholics risk facing increasing
persecution, such as the inability to even work in fields like education and
healthcare, if the government remains on its present course.
“If the present government, which can be described in no
other way than totalitarian, is not held back from the course it is on, these
persecutions will follow,” he said. “It will not be possible for Catholics to
exercise most of the normal human services whether in health care, education,
or social welfare because in conscience they will no longer be able to do what
the government demands: to cooperate in grave moral evil. We are heading in
that direction and even see it now.”
He urged Americans to take the example of France, where
the people have reacted strongly to government imposition of same-sex
“marriage.” “The French people are out on the streets in protest — one
demonstration had upwards of two million people,” he said. “There has arisen in
France among the people the will to resist the government and that is what we
need in this country.”
Asked how Catholics can reconcile the fact that they are
told not to vote for political candidates who support grave intrinsic evils,
while these same politicians are given honors at Catholic universities and
public Catholic funerals, he said, “You cannot reconcile it.”
“It is a contradiction, it is wrong, it is a scandal, and
it must stop!” he said. “We live in a culture with a false sense of dialogue —
which has also crept into the Church — where we pretend to dialogue about open
and egregious violations of the moral law.”
“Can we believe it is permissible to recognize publicly
people who support open and egregious violations, and then act surprised if
someone is scandalized by it?”
See the full interview with Cardinal Burke at The
Wanderer here.
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