In light of Nancy Pelosi’s latest (but consistent) scandalous betrayal of Catholic identity I introduce my Can. 915 series coffee mugs and other swag.
See what she’s done this time. HERE.
Here is the basic image for the mug and for the shirts, etc..
Here is one view of the mug.
Here is the other view.
I am revamping my various stores to make it easier to find stuff, consolidating them into one main store with various “sections” HERE.
The tee:
The Religious Liberty series is coming soon!
The Obama Administration has to… has to… fold when it comes to the HHS mandate and their attack on the Catholic Church and the 1st Amendment.
While it is true that Pres. Obama is an ideologue, it is also true that he wants to be reelected.
He’ll fold on this matter with the knowledge that he has energized his base and that, if reelected, he will be able to impose the HHS mandate and many other things as well.
So, with the understanding that “if you are not on offense you are on defense”, what’s next for the Catholic Church in the United States? What’s next for the American bishops?
What’s the next step?
Some of you will start shouting about excommunicating everyone. Think for a while, then answer.
From a priest:
Thanks for all your work with your blog and for promoting the TLM.
Thanks to your promotion, I attended a TLM workshop last summer in Nebraska with the FSSP and have since offered the TLM several times – but more on that sort of good news another day.
Can you answer the following:
When I go camping or backpacking, I offer Mass in the woods. Is it permissible (I hope it is) to offer Mass, receive the Eucharist at Mass [as the priest celebrant], then keep a consecrated host for Adoration, (I would bring a small monstrance), and afterward consume the Host after an hour of adoration?
It seems that this is not permitted, since one can only receive the Body of Christ a second time when in the context of the Mass? Could there be an exception? Should I rather go the day without adoration outside of Mass?
First, I will remind you of the great “travel altar cards” I posted about HERE.
I think it would not be proper to reserve a Host in those circumstances for adoration after Mass. I don’t know that for sure, but it strikes me a wrong. Among other things, you are in the boundaries of some priest’s parish and you don’t have permission to reserve the Sacrament.
Perhaps you could be very deliberate with your prayers of preparation before and then meditation after you consume the Host.
The rubrics after consumption of the Host include “quiescit aliquantulum in meditatione sanctissimi Sacramenti… he rests a little while in meditation about the most holy Sacrament”. At that point, the Precious Blood is still unconsumed. I would be concerned that there could be particles on the paten which could be lost in a strong breeze, etc.
The rubrics don’t say how long “aliquantulum” is.
Because we are Unreconstructed Ossified Manualists, we even check liturgical manuals… which don’t turn up anything other than a vague comment about it not being very long. That of course, assumes, that there is a congregation who have lives to live, etc. There is nothing in the rubric to permit a long pause after reception of the Precious Blood. It is all business from then on.
So, brother, I think the key here, if you are alone, would be to draw out your preparation before Communion, especially in the recitation of the three private preparatory prayers, and then in your meditation “aliquantulum”. I have done this in time past when along, though I admit not for an hour.
I recall that St. Philip Neri would spend a couple hours in ecstasy at reception of Communion when he said Mass.
Consider the rich content of the three preparatory prayers. I could write reams about the third, which I think is one of the most moving of the priest’s prayers at Mass:
Perceptio Corporis tui, Domine Iesu Christe, quod ego indignus sumere praesumo, non mihi proveniat in iudicium et condemnationem; sed pro tua pietate prosit mihi ad tutamentum mentis et corporis et ad medelam percipiendam: Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen. … Let the receiving of Thy Body, O Lord Jesus Christ, which I – unworthy – presume to receive, turn not unto me for judgment and condemnation, but, according to Thy mercy, let it be profitable to me for the receiving of protection and healing, both of soul and body: Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.
Want to underscore the difference of “spiritualities” express in the Novus Ordo and the TLM? This prayer might be a good start. I find this prayer both consoling and harrowing. It underscores the encounter with mystery which is both tremendum et fascinans. But I digress.
Over at the young papist’s place, on Catholic Vote, Tom Peters is forming a list of US bishops who have responded to Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on the 1st Amendment and on religious liberty when while he openly refuses to fulfill his responsibility under the Constitution to uphold federal law in DOMA.
If we look at how the American episcopate has been changing in the last 10-15 years, I think we can take heart. But we still need to pray for our bishops. And pray relentlessly. Consider how at the time of the Notre Shame debacle, 80+ bishops protested that cringing bit of pandering to the most aggressively pro-abortion president we have ever seen. 5 years before, the number of bishops in protest would have been unthinkable. Today there are even more bishops reacting and the count is not complete.
In any event, at the time of this writing,
171
US Bishops have been reported to have reacted with strength against Pres. Obama’s determination to force Catholics to violate their consciences in a way that contradicts our Catholic Faith and the clear moral teachings of Holy Church. Amish and Quakers get waivers from some federal mandates. Not Catholics.
Here is Peters’ list. I will try to update it as well: Peters wrote “If I have missed anyone please let me know in the comments!” So, let HIM know. It is better if one person is forming a master list, and this is even more in his bailiwick than it is in mine.
Statements from 8 bishops have not yet been located. Perhaps they have been missed or haven’t yet been posted in a clear place on a diocesan website.
When you find their statements, let Peters know.
We bloggers must cooperate, inter-link.
These are the bishops whose statements have been located.
Province of Anchorage:
- 1. Archbishop Roger Schweitz, of Anchorage, AK
- 2. Bishop Edward Burns, of Juneau, AK
- 3. Bishop Donald Kettler of Fairbanks, AK (better link needed)
Province of Atlanta:
- 4. Archbishop Wilton Gregory , of Atlanta, GA
- 5. Bishop Robert Guglielmone, of Charleston, SC
- 6. Bishop Peter Jugis, of Charlotte, NC
- 7. Bishop Michael Burbidge, of Raleigh, NC
- 8. Bishop Gregory Hartmayer, of Savannah, GA
Province of Baltimore:
- 9. Cardinal-designate Edwin O’Brien, of Baltimore, MD
- 10. Bishop Paul Loverde, of Arlington, VA
- 11. Bishop Francis DiLorenzo, of Richmond VA
- 12. Bishop Michael Bransfield, of Wheeling-Charleston, WV
- 13. Bishop Francis Malooly, of Wilmington, DE
Province of Boston:
- 14. Sean Cardinal O’Malley, of Boston, MA
- 15. Bishop Salvatore Matano,of Burlington, VT
- 16. Bishop George Coleman, of Fall River, MA
- 17. Bishop Peter Libasci, of Manchester, NH
- 18. Bishop Richard Malone, of Portland, ME
- 19. Bishop Timothy McDonnell, of Springfield, MA
- 20. Bishop Robert McManus, of Worcester, MA
Province of Chicago:
- 21. Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, IL
- 22. Bishop Edward Braxton, of Belleville, IL (better link needed)
- 23. Bishop Daniel Conlon, of Joliet, IL
- 24. Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, IL
- 25. Bishop Thomas Doran, of Rockford, IL
- 26. Bishop Thomas Paprocki, of Springfield, IL
Province of Cincinnati:
- 27. Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, of Cincinnati, OH
- 28. Bishop Richard Lennon, of Cleveland, OH
- 29. Bishop Frederick Campbell, of Columbus, OH
- Monsignor Kurt Kemo (apostolic administrator), of Steubenville, OH
- 30. Bishop Leonard Blair, of Toledo, OH
- 31. Bishop George Murry, of Youngstown, OH
Province of Denver:
- 32. Bishop James Conley, Apostolic Administrator of Denver, CO
- 33. Bishop Paul Etienne, of Cheyenne, WY
- 34. Bishop Michael Sheridan, of Colorado Springs, CO
- 35. Bishop Fernando Isern, of Pueblo, CO
Province of Detroit:
- 36. Archbishop Allen Vigneron, of Detroit, MI
- 37. Bishop Bernard Hebda, of Gaylord, MI
- 38. Bishop Walter Hurley, of Grand Rapids, MI
- 39. Bishop Paul Bradley, of Kalamazoo, MI
- 40. Bishop Earl Boyea, of Lansing, MI
- 41. Bishop Alexander Sample, of Marquette, MI
- 42. Bishop Joseph Cistone, of Saginaw, MI
Province of Dubuque:
- 43. Archbishop Jerome Hanus, of Dubuque, IA
- 44. Bishop Martin Amos, of Davenport, IA
- 45. Bishop Richard Pates, of Des Moines, IA
- 46. Bishop Walter Nickless, of Sioux City, IA
Province of Galveston-Houston:
- 47. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, of Galveston-Houston, TX
- 48. Bishop Joe Vasquez, of Austin, TX
- 49. Bishop Curtis Guillory, of Beaumont, TX (better link needed)
- 50. Bishop Daniel Flores, of Brownsville, TX
- 51. Bishop Michael Mulvey, of Corpus Christi, TX
- 52. Bishop Alvaro Corrada (apostolic administrator) of Tyler TX
- 53. Bishop David Fellhauer of Victoria, TX (better link needed)
Province of Hartford:
- 54. Archbishop Henry Mansell, of Hartford, CT
- 55. Bishop William Lori, of Bridgeport, CT
- 56. Bishop Michael Cote, of Norwich, CT
- 57. Bishop Thomas Tobin, of Providence, RI
Province of Indianapolis:
- 58. Bishop Christopher Coyne, Apostolic Administrator of Indianapolis, IN
- 59. Bishop Charles Thompson, of Evansville, IN
- 60. Bishop Kevin Rhoades, of Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN
- 61. Bishop Dale Melczek, of Gary, IN
- 62. Bishop Timothy Doherty, of Lafayette, IN
Province of Kansas City:
- 63. Archbishop Joseph Naumann, of Kansas City, KS
- Father Barry Brinkman (apostolic administrator) of Salina, KS
- 64. Bishop Michael Jackels, of Wichita, KS
Province of Los Angeles:
- 65. Archbishop Jose Gomez, of Los Angeles, CA
- Roger Cardinal Mahoney (emeritus), of Los Angeles, CA
- 66. Bishop Armando Ochoa, of Fresno, CA (also apostolic administrator of El Paso)
- 67. Bishop Tod Brown, of Orange, CA
- 68. Bishop Gerald Barnes, of San Bernadino, CA
- 69. Bishop Robert Brom, of San Diego, CA
- 70. Bishop Ricardo Garcia of Monterey, CA
Province of Louisville:
- 71. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, of Louisville, KY
- 72. Bishop Roger Foys, of Covington, KY
- 73. Bishop Richard Stika, of Knoxville, TN
- 74. Bishop Ronald Gainer, of Lexington, KY (better link needed)
- 75. Bishop Terry Steib, of Memphis, TN
- 76. Bishop David Choby, of Nashville, TN
- 77. Bishop WIlliam Medley, of Owensboro, KY
Province of Miami:
- 78. Archbishop Thomas Wenski, of Miami, FL (also apostolic administrator of Pensacola-Tallahassee)
- 79. Bishop John Noonan, of Orlando, FL
- 80. Bishop Gerald Barbarito, of Palm Beach, FL
- 81. Bishop Felipe Estevez, of St Augustine, FL
- 82. Bishop Robert Lynch, of St Petersburg, FL
- 83. Bishop Frank Dewane, of Venice, FL
Province of Milwaukee:
- 84. Archbishop Jerome Listecki, of Milwaukee, WI
- 85. Bishop David Ricken, of Green Bay, WI
- 86. Bishop William Callahan, of La Crosse, WI
- 87. Bishop Robert Morlino, of Madison, WI
- 88. Bishop Peter Christensen, of Superior, WI
Province of Mobile:
- 89. Archbishop Thomas Rodi of Mobile, AL
- 90. Bishop Robert Baker of Birmingham, AL
- 91. Bishop Joseph Latino of Jackson, MS
- 92. Bishop Roger Morin of Biloxi, MS
Province of New Orleans:
- 93. Archbishop Gregory Aymond, of New Orleans, LA
- 94. Bishop Ronald Herzog, of Alexandria, LA
- 95. Bishop Robert Muench, of Baton Rouge, LA
- 96. Bishop Sam Jacobs, of Houma-Thibodaux, LA
- 97. Bishop Michael Jarrell, of Lafayette, LA
- 98. Bishop Glen Provost, of Lake Charles, LA
- 99. Bishop Michael Duca, of Shreveport, LA
Province of New York:
- 100. Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, of New York, NY
- Edward Cardinal Egan, of New York, NY (emeritus)
- 101. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, of Brooklyn, NY
- 102. Bishop Edward Kmiec, of Buffalo, NY
- 103. Bishop Terry LaValley, of Ogdensburg, NY
- 104. Bishop Matthew Clark, of Rochester, NY
- 105. Bishop William Murphy, of Rockville Centre, NY
- 106. Bishop Robert Cunningham, of Syracuse, NY
- 107. Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany, NY
Province of Newark:
- 108. Archbishop John Meyers, of Newark, NJ
- 109. Bishop Joseph Galante, of Camden, NJ
- 110. Bishop Arthur Serratelli, of Paterson, NJ
- 111. Bishop David O’Connell, of Trenton, NJ
- 112. Bishop Paul Bootkoski of Metuchen, NJ
Province of Oklahoma City:
- 113. Archbishop Paul Coakley, of Oklahoma City, OK
- 114. Bishop Anthony Taylor, of Little Rock, AR
- 115. Bishop Edward Slattery, of Tulsa, OK
Province of Omaha:
- 116. Archbishop George Lucas, of Omaha, NE
- 117. Bishop William Dendinger, of Grand Island, NE (better link needed)
- 118. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, of Lincoln, NE
Province of Philadelphia:
- 119. Archbishop Charles Chaput, of Philadelphia, PA
- 120. Bishop John Barres, of Allentown, PA
- 121. Bishop Mark Bartchak, of Altoona-Johnstown, PA
- 122. Bishop Lawrence Brandt, of Greensburg, PA
- 123. Bishop Joseph McFadden, of Harrisburg, PA
- 124. Bishop David Zubik, of Pittsburgh, PA (Twice!)
- 125. Bishop Joseph Bambera, of Scranton, PA
- 126. Bishop Donald Trautman of Eire, PA (better link needed)
Province of Portland:
- 127. Archbishop John Vlazny, of Portland, OR (link fixed)
- 128. Bishop William Skystad (apostolic administrator) of Baker, OR
- 129. Bishop Michael Driscoll, of Boise, ID
- 130. Bishop Michael Warfel, of Great Falls-Billings, MT
- 131. Bishop George Thomas, of Helena, MT
Province of Saint Louis:
- 132. Archbishop Robert Carlson, of Saint Louis, MO
- 133. Bishop John Gaydos, of Jefferson City, MO
- 134. Bishop Robert Finn, of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, MO
- 135. Bishop James Johnston, of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO
Province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis:
- 136. Archbishop John Nienstedt, of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN
- 137. Bishop David Kagan, of Bismarck, ND
- 138. Bishop Samuel Aquila, of Fargo, ND
- 139. Bishop John LeVoir, of New Ulm, MN
- 140. Bishop Robert Gruss, of Rapid City, SD
- 141. Bishop Paul Swain, of Sioux Falls, SD
- 142. Bishop John Quinn, of Winona, MN
- 143. Bishop Paul Sirba of Duluth, MN
- 144. Bishop Michael Hoeppner, of Crookston, MN
Province of San Antonio:
- 145. Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, of San Antonio, TX
- 146. Bishop Patrick Zurek, of Amarillo, TX
- 147. Bishop Kevin Farrell, of Dallas, TX
- 148. Bishop Kevin Vann, of Fort Worth, TX
- Bishop Armando Ochoa (apostolic administrator) of El Paso, TX
- 149. Bishop James Tamayo, of Laredo, TX
- 150. Bishop Placido Rodriguez, of Lubbock, TX
- 151. Bishop Michael Pfeifer, of San Angelo, TX
Province of San Francisco:
- 152. Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, CA
- 153. Bishop Joseph Pepe, of Las Vegas, NV
- 154. Bishop Randolph Calvo, of Reno, NV
- 155. Bishop Jaime Soto, of Sacramento, CA
- 156. Bishop John Wester, of Salt Lake City, UT
- 157. Bishop Patrick McGrath, of San Jose, CA
- 158. Bishop Stephen Blaire, of Stockton, CA
- 159. Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu, HI
Province of Santa Fe:
- 160. Archbishop Michael Sheehan, of Santa Fe, NM
- 161. Bishop James Wall, of Gallup, NM
- 162. Bishop Thomas Olmsted, of Phoenix, AZ
- 163. Bishop Gerald Kicanas, Tuscon, AZ
Province of Seattle:
- 164. Archbishop Peter Sartain, of Seattle, WA
- 165. Bishop Joseph Tyson, of Yakima, WA
Province of Washington:
- 166. Donald Cardinal Wuerl, of Washington, DC
Archeparchy of Philadelphia (Eastern Rite)
- 167. Bishop Richard Seminack, Eparchy of Chicago, IL
Metropolita of Pittsburgh (Eastern Rite) + Sui Iuris:
- 168. Archbishop-elect William Skurla, ArchEparchy of Pittsburgh (currently bishop of Passaic) (better link needed)
- 169. Bishop Gerald Dino, Eparchy of Phoenix, AZ
- 170. Bishop John Kudrick, Eparchy of Parma, OH
MILITARY
- 171. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, of Military Services, USA
SPECIAL MENTION: “The Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in North America just issued a formal statement of protest against the HHS mandate in which the Assembly, representing all 53 Orthodox bishops in North America, references their complete agreement with the statements of the USCCB.”
UPDATE: Of the 183 dioceses (by my count) in the U.S. who have a bishop currently serving as its head, 169 of them have issued statements. So 92% of bishops who head dioceses have spoken out against the Obama/HHS mandate.
NOTE: If you would like a statement by an Eastern Rite bishop to be included please send me [PETERS!] the link/document or post it in the comments! Thank you. I’m trying to provide documentation for all the bishops I list and Eastern Rite bishops have been harder for me to find. Thanks for the understanding!
UPDATE:
Don’t send updates to ME, send them to Peters… as I requested. Please read the entry, above. Thanks!
COMING SOON
The mighty Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, has posted on his excellent blog In The Light Of The Law a comment about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) statement that, as a Catholic, she will stand with the Obama Administration against the Catholic Church.
My emphases and comments.
Nancy Pelosi deserves to be taken seriously. Very seriously.
As a canon lawyer, my view is that Nancy Pelosi deserves to be deprived of holy Communion as the just consequence of her public actions; as her fellow Catholic, my view is that Nancy Pelosi deserves to be deprived of holy Communion to bring home to her and to the wider faith community the gravity of her conduct and the need to avoid such conduct altogether or, that failing, at least to repent of it. Quickly.
In March 2010, I expressed the view that Nancy Pelosi’s protracted and public anti-life conduct, which she repeatedly justifies with (twisted takes on) the Catholic faith, sufficed, in my view, to bring about her debarment from the reception of holy Communion under Canon 915.
If Pelosi’s “prolonged public conduct does not qualify as obstinate perseverance in manifest grave sin,” I wrote two years ago, “then, in all sincerity, I must admit to not knowing what would constitute obstinate perseverance in manifest grave sin.”
It’s now February of 2012, and nothing in Pelosi’s conduct over the last 23 months suggests any emendation of her attitudes toward killing unborn babies, etc., etc., etc. Indeed her recent call for Catholics qua Catholics to unite behind, of all things!, President Obama’s plan to impose immoral policies on private medical insurance plans—which call provoked this moving cri de coeur from Fr. Zuhlsdorf—suggests that Pelosi’s views, like Pharaoh’s heart, have only hardened with time.
Canon 915, as I and others have explained many times, is not about impositions on individual conscience, it’s about public consequences for public behavior. [PUBLIC behavior.] It’s about taking people at their word and acknowledging the character of their actions. It’s about not pretending that people don’t really mean what they repeatedly say and what they repeatedly do.
Nancy Pelosi obviously means exactly what she says, and she regularly backs up her words with deeds. She deserves to be taken seriously. Very seriously.
His combox is closed. You can discuss this here, but I am turning on comment moderation. Be sure to visit Dr. Peters’ site and spike his stats!
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In happier news, today is the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens.
Let’s have a poll!
And please give your reasons in the combox!
From WaPo and AP I just learned that Pres. Obama’s campaign director David Axelrod has said something revelatory about the administration’s ultimate goals.
Obama’s senior political adviser urges all sides in birth control fight to ‘lower our voices’ [Get that? It’s time for Catholics to shut up.]
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, February 7, 8:15 AM
WASHINGTON — A political adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday the administration didn’t intend to “abridge anyone’s religious freedom” [B as in B. S as in S.] with its regulation requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control for their workers.
“This is an important issue. It’s important for millions of women around the country,” said Axelrod, the political adviser to Obama’s re-election campaign. “We want to resolve it in an appropriate way and we’re going to do that.” [I think their “appropriate” and mine might be widely divergent.]
Roman Catholic leaders have assailed Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for the new rule, [NO AP! NO WaPo! The Obama Administration has assailed the Catholic Church!] arguing that it tramples on their religious beliefs. Religious groups that oppose the regulation say that it forces people of faith to choose between upholding church doctrine and serving the broader society.
[Watch this weasel language…] In an interview Tuesday broadcast on MSNBC, Axelrod said, “I’m less concerned about the messaging of this than finding a resolution that makes sense.” He noted that these institutions have roughly a year and a half to comply with the new regulation, saying “I think we need to lower our voices and get together.” [Get that? The resolution that “makes sense” to David Axelrod, and there is surely NO DAYLIGHT between what he says on this and what Pres. Obama thinks, is that Catholics had better SHUT UP AND COMPLY.]
At the same time, Axelrod acknowledged the dispute has caused a rift between the White House and the Roman Catholic Church.
“We have great respect for the work that these institutions do, and we certainly don’t want to abridge anyone’s religious freedom,” he said. But Axelrod also said the administration was struggling to strike a balance between a stance that “guarantees women the preventive care [The language is Orwellian.] they need” and one which respects the prerogatives of religious institutions.
“There are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women who work in these universities who are not Catholic,” he said. “The question is whether they’re going … to have the same access to basic preventive care.” [In every interview, press release, White House statement, the language they must have polled to be adequately deceptive is “preventive care”.]
Axelrod said Sebelius had acted on a recommendation by the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation and that she exempted churches themselves from the rule. [“SHE exempted”?!? SHE?] Asked if the White House had consulted religious leaders before acting, he replied, “The bottom line is, this was a decision made with the interest of the health of millions around this country in mind.” [In other words, if they did, it didn’t matter one little bit.]
Axelrod accused Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of seeking to “turn it into a kind of political football,” saying he considered Romney’s stance “ironic” because the former Massachusetts governor led a state that has a similar policy. [Very clever. He pivots away from the real problem, which is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment, to make objections in a partisan political issue.]
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), catholic and openly an abortion absolutist, is from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but she spends most of her time in Washington DC. She has at least quasi-domicile in the Archdiocese of Washington DC.
She is Archbishop Niederauer’s and Card. Wuerl’s subject it seems, and yet – year after year – she, saying openly that she is “catholic”, runs her mouth off with deeply and stupidly wicked remarks such as what follows.
From Life Site News:
Pelosi: ‘I am going to stick with fellow Catholics’ in supporting Obama birth control mandate
BY CHRISTINE DHANAGOMFebruary 6, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even as the United States’ Catholic bishops have launched an all-out campaign against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate and urged their flocks to resistance, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has invoked the support of “fellow Catholics” to justify her position in favor of the mandate.
Pelosi was confronted at last Wednesday’s press briefing by a reporter from CNSnews.com, who began by pointing out that the mandate, which requires all employers to cover all sterilizations and contraception, including drugs that can cause early abortions, forces Catholic individuals and institutions to act against Church teaching.
Irritated, Pelosi, a self-professed devout Catholic, [catholic] interrupted: “Is this a speech, or do we have a question in disguise as a speech?”
The reporter continued, citing a letter from the U.S. bishops, in which the bishops vowed not to comply with the law, and asked: “will you stand with your fellow Catholics in resisting this law or will you stick by the Administration?”
[Pelosi answered:] “First of all, I am going to stick 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,” the minority leader responded. [I’m going to stick with my fellow Catholics?]
[…]
In an interview with the Washington Post this past November, she acknowledged that many Catholics object to being forced to fund abortions, noting that “they have this conscience thing.”
The former speaker has also said she has “some areas of disagreement” with the country’s bishops, and has claimed that Catholicism does not necessarily condemn abortion.
I call upon Archbishop Niederauer and Card. Wuerl openly to state that Rep. Pelosi should not present herself for Holy Communion in their respective dioceses.
Nancy Pelosi considers it consistent with what Catholics do to take a stand against the bishops in favor of a policy that would force Catholic institutions to violate the teachings of her Church.
Pelosi is a highly public figure. Few people are more visible. She is committing the mortal sin of scandalizing the faithful in a matter which unquestionably grave matter. There has been all manner of discussion concerning her and the issues of abortion, contraception, when life begins, etc. She can’t plead ignorance of the Church’s teachings. She continues to be openly, publicly, scandalous in these matters.
Now, she is taking an open stand against the American bishops – precisely claiming her catholic identity – in favor of a manifest attack on the Catholic Church by the most aggressively pro-abortion President we have ever seen.
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Your Excellency? Your Eminence? How much longer does this have to go on? What else does she have to do?
If I am wrong about this, I will accept correction. I am not canonist, but – for the love of God – I can read. I am not a bishop – thanks be to God – but you don’t have to be a bishop to figure this one out.
Please, somebody, explain to me how we square doing nothing about her scandal with can. 915 and the sacred duty bishops have to protect the flock?
Can. 915 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law authorized that ministers should withhold holy Communion from those who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin“. Can. 915 actually requires ministers to withhold Holy Communion in such cases on pain of dereliction of their sacred office (can. 128 and 1389).
This isn’t a matter of a private conversation of an unknown woman in her living room.
I cannot imagine how anyone can question that Pelosi’s actions, which are public and clear and defiant and wicked and scandalous when it comes to serious matters of life, qualify her as “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin”.
For the good of souls, Nancy Pelosi must be denied Holy Communion and the Catholic people should be informed that she is being denied Holy Communion.
“But Father! But Father!” some of you are saying. “What about the… the… the… national repercussions? *sputter* What about the media firestorm?”
Damn straight!
Let there be national repercussions and a media firestorm.
Pres. Obama and his administration have openly and aggressively attacked the Catholic Church by trying to force Catholic institutions to perform actions which are evil even by reason alone and natural law, and not just by Catholic doctrine.
Nancy Pelosi has publicly chosen sides against the Catholic Church’s teachings and against the bishops.
Let her choice be publicly confirmed by those same bishops.
Nancy Pelosi must not admitted to Holy Communion until she publicly changes her defiant stance and positions.
UPDATE:
Here is the new Can. 915 swag you can get.
I haven’t posted about the feeder for a while.
Here is little Red-Breasted Nuthatch. Like most Nuthatches they tend to like being upsidedown.
The other day I heard a “SMACK” against the window and, when I went outside I saw one of these fellow sitting on the ground next to the house. I slowly picked it up. It looked at me for a bit and flew away, apparently not too much the worse for the bump.
Chickadee Triumphans.
Nuthatches and Chicakdees form common flocks just during the winter.
Have you had the experience when in a familiar setting of something catching the edge of your eye and, instantly, you know that it is unusual?
Thus, it transpired for me today.
I was diligently working on my article for the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, and out of my eye’s corner I saw something odd. Looking up, I saw an unusual squirrel running from an unaccustomed (for them) direction toward the tree next to the house.
Black squirrels are not especially rare in this part of the world, but I have never seen one anywhere near my place.
I loath the enemy squirrel, of course, but the oddity of it brings it to my blog today.
By contrast, this is the gray enemy.
This is the sort of tree rat which has earned my eternal enmity. Once you have the experience of squirrels getting into some place in your house, you will even aim for them when you are driving. But I digress.
And the smaller red enemy.
All within a few minutes.
In any event, I will make an appeal now for donations for feed. As I have said in times past, “It’s more than tuppence a bag”.
I feed them from your donations. I haven’t had to make many appeals for awhile since, few months ago, someone donated a large quantity of good stuff (lots of peanuts, etc.) which has the high fat content the birds benefit from in freezing cold weather. But that is nearly gone, now. Therefore, I am happy to beg your kindness.
Do you remember this story from a couple days back? HERE.
Review: A priest was changing the words of Mass. He was corrected on more than one occasion by the bishop. The priest, having refused to change, offered his resignation which the bishop eventually accepted. Liberal lamentations abound.
In the newspaper account on BND.com there is a POLL.
As if this is a matter for a secular newspaper editor to stick his long nose into…
“Should a priest be allowed to change the words he says during Mass?”
I am not going to tell you how to vote, but I sure hope you will go there and VOTE! Vote fairly. Vote once. But VOTE.
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Here are the results as of this writing the anarchists are willing, which I think is a darn shame.
UPDATE 2042 GMT:
It’s moving.
UPDATE 6 Feb 0055 GMT:
It’s still moving.
UPDATE 6 Feb 1458 GMT:
So far so good!
UPDATE 6 Feb 2140 GMT:
Please vote if you haven’t yet.
UPDATE 7 Feb 1623 GMT:
Good work, friends!
UPDATE 8 Feb 1539 GMT:
Our work here may be done.
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