Ted Kennedy had more of a conscience than Pelosi.

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Madame's Nightshirt

Mrs. Peperium

 

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  Rose Kennedy's Delmont 88. Driven off the Dike Bridge by Ted Kennedy who escaped & left scene. Mary Jo Kopechne was trapped inside, dying alone from suffocation.

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Ted Kennedy, his 6 mos. pregnant wife & widowed sister leaving church  following the Funeral Mass for Mary Jo Kopechne, an only child.

 

"Most Holy Father, I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this letter to you. As a man of deep faith himself, he understands how important my Roman Catholic faith is to me, and I am deeply grateful to him. [...big snip...] I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health care field and will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.

I have always tried to be a faithful Catholic, Your Holiness, and though I have fallen short through human failings, I have never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings."

 

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QUESTION: The administration has issued a regulation that will require all healthcare plans to cover sterilization and all FDA approved contraceptives including those that induce abortions. This will force Catholic individuals and institutions to act against their consciences. All across the nation..

PELOSI:

Is this a speech or do we have a question disguised as speech?

QUESTION:

We cannot and will not comply with this law.

Will you stand with your fellow Catholics in opposing this law?

PELOSI:

I'm going to stand with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this. I think it was a very courageous decision that they made and I support it.

 

 


Some of Pelosi's fellow Catholics...

 

Remember when this was viewed as "being divisive"?

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHA

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Comments

[The Ancient]

The one holy catholic and apostolic church really ought to get back in the excommunication business. It's the only thing that would ever make a difference.

(Chaput's growls and complaints are all to the good -- but it's not nearly enough.)

That the church refuses to do this suggests some fundamental lack of seriousness. Which I would expect from American bishops. But Rome? Under this pope?

[Mrs. P]

Ancient - hold tight - have some news on that front...

[The Ancient]

And while I'm feeling grouchy, there's this ...

"I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the public square."

Brave words from Francis George? Or a timetable that abdicates any responsibility for real action?

[Mrs. P]

Ancient, Cardinal George is at the Vatican this morning. Hold on - I'm getting to it...

[The Ancient]

The Vatican is over-run by denialists, careerists, and nancy-boys.

Anyone who feels otherwise is dreaming.

(It's not as if I have developed a late life, post-mortem sneaker for Malachi Martin, but still.)

The flip side of this, of course, is that we now find ourselves with a Pope who anticipates a vastly smaller Church. What he leaves unspoken is what that small Church would be able to accomplish against all the forces now arrayed against its extinction.

P.S. I have met but three Bishops in my life who were not smug nincompoops.

[Mrs. P]

As you may recall, I'm a convert from the English church. If you want to see a hierarchy filled to the brim with "denialists, careerists, and nancy-boys" and "smug nincompoops" look to to the See of Canterbury.

I'm not saying Rome doesn't have none of the above - it just doesn't have it in the proportions Canterbury does.

Obama has pushed the issue. He gave no fallback. Not the wisest approach to take when a Church was most definitely trying to negotiate...