Pope Benedict XVI to Pelosi: You must protect life at all its stages.

[SuperTrouper]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/pope.pelosi/index.html?section=cnn_latest

The Vatican says the pope lectured Pelosi about abortion and assisted suicide. Pelosi says they talked about poverty and global warming -- and she showed him pictures of her grandchildren.

"His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death," the Holy See said in a statement.

Benedict emphasized that "all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society" should work to create "a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development."


The Republican leadership of the House chose the day of Pelosi's meeting with the pope to reiterate its own opposition to abortion.

House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio and House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan wrote Wednesday to Cardinal Justin Rigali of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops thanking him for a February 5 letter the cardinal sent to all members of Congress urging legislators to fight to protect the sanctity of unborn human life.

"We stand with you in the defense of all human life," Boehner and McCotter wrote in their letter, which they released to the public.

[liberal N proud]

1. Note to Pope Benedict XVI

Get the fuck out of our politics and government.

[SunsetDreams]

8. I'll stand with this response.

[Hellataz]

15. I'm right behind you in that line.

[Unsane]

2. Boehner wants to force women to deliver rape babies.

Otherwise he doesn't stand with the Poop.

[Occam Bandage]

3. Occam Bandage to Pope Benedict XVI:

You look after your little country, and we'll look after ours.

[SacredCow]

4. "dignity of human life from conception to natural death*"

*Homosexuals need not apply

[harry_pothead]

5. Pope - Try keeping your priests' hands off the little boys

before pontificating about morals.

It would also be nice if you could provide some evidence of the religion's claims about nature.

[Every Man A King]

6. A one issue church... what a cluster fuck organization n/t

[Enthusiast]

7. To Pope Benedict XVI,

Did you ever ask yourself why The Bush Administration, when it had complete control of the U.S. government, did not act to outlaw abortion? Now that The Democratic Party is in control you seem to expect them to go against their principles to enact a law that denies a woman's free right to choose. This is hypocrisy.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. In other news, guy thinks giant fuckin' hat gives him some kind of moral authority.

Nevermind all the criminal Priests he's protected.

[WeDidIt]

10. thankyouverymuch, Ratzi the Nazi n/t

[ShortnFiery]

11. USA to Pope Benedict.

Keep YOUR religion out of our Sovereign Nation's Politics. :thumbsdown:

[ShortnFiery]

12. If Pope Benedict LOVES to protect life so much he should promptly relocate ...

to the tribal areas on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. You know, the places where we often send our SMART drone bombs?

Yes, The Pope could "wage peace" commuting between the above and The Gaza Strip. :shrug:

[Jackeens]

13. It's time for a new Pope, that guy should go. Anyone available?

[TexasObserver]

14. Unlike the Pope, Pelosi has to worry about them AFTER they're born.

[backscatter712]

16. Every sperm is sacred!

Every sperm is great!
If a sperm is wasted,
God get quite irate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8

[anonymous171]

17. Why didn't he tell the GOP to vote for the EFCA?

He likes Unions, supposedly. God I hate Ratz.

[wmbrew0206]

18. If Pelosi did not want to hear about this issue from the Pope she should not have sought an audenice

Did anyone think the Pope was not going to bring this up? Especially when Pelosi went to Rome and sought him out?

This is a big tenant of the Catholic Church and the Pope is the leader of the Catholic Church. Whether you agree with him or not, he has a right to tell the members of his church how they should act in order to obey the tenants of the church they freely joined.

This was nothing more than a wrist slap from the Pope. If he wanted to really make a big issue of this, he would have publicly denied Pelosi's request for an audience based on her freedom of choice position and then instructed US Bishops to stop giving communion to US politicians who public oppose a woman's right to choose.