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Thread ID: 13447 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-04-29
2004-04-29 21:39 | User Profile
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 ÷ Last updated 12:30 p.m. PT
Top House Dem says she'll take Communion
By ERICA WERNER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., like John Kerry a Catholic who supports abortion rights, said Thursday she will continue to ask for Holy Communion in spite of Vatican opposition to pro-choice Catholics doing so.
"I fully intend to receive Communion, one way or another. That's very important to me," Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference.
A top Vatican cardinal said last week that priests must deny Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. The cardinal stopped short of saying whether it was right for Kerry to receive Communion, and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee quickly affirmed his support for abortion rights and took Communion the next day.
The head of a task force of U.S. bishops said Tuesday that Catholic politicians who advocate policies contrary to church teaching on abortion and other issues may risk sanctions that fall short of denial of Communion.
"I have not gotten to the stage where I'm comfortable in denying the Eucharist," said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington.
Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat who was raised in a devout Italian Catholic home, told reporters, "I believe that my position on choice is one that is consistent with my Catholic upbringing, which said that every person has a free will and has the responsibility to live their lives in a way that they would have to account for in the end."
"I'm certainly concerned when the church comes together and says it's going to sanction people in public office for speaking their conscience and what they believe," she said.
2004-04-29 21:52 | User Profile
"I'm certainly concerned when the church comes together and says it's going to sanction people in public office for speaking their conscience and what they believe," she said.
1 Cor 4:1 *Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. *
Heb 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
2004-04-29 22:02 | User Profile
1 Corinthians 11 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
2004-04-30 02:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Centinel][url]http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=Pelosi%20Religion[/url]
Thursday, April 29, 2004 ÷ Last updated 12:30 p.m. PT
Top House Dem says she'll take Communion
By ERICA WERNER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., like John Kerry a Catholic who supports abortion rights, said Thursday she will continue to ask for Holy Communion in spite of Vatican opposition to pro-choice Catholics doing so.
"I fully intend to receive Communion, one way or another. That's very important to me," Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference. [/QUOTE]
I thought that Bishops and Priests ran the Catholic Church, not Nancy Pelosi? Sounds like she's telling them what she will do.