Flashback: Catholic "Pope Benedict Rebuked Pelosi, Told Her Catholic Legislators Obligated to Protect Life: No Pelosi/Pope photos permitted"
2009 Flashback:
By John-Henry Westen
VATICAN CITY, February 18, 2009
(LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican Press Office released a note this
morning detailing part of the conversation which Pope Benedict XVI had
with Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Pelosi
also released a statement on the meeting, which ignored the one and only
crucial issue mentioned in the Vatican note. WHile Pelosi presented
the meeting as a fully positive encounter, the Vatican indicated the
Pope reminded her of the requirement of Catholic politicians to defend
life. Also, contrary to normal protocols for such meetings with
dignitaries, no photos of Pelosi with the Pope have been released.
The
Vatican note reads: "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
which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and
those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation
with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws
capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development... "
... Pelosi's
positive spin on the meeting is not being swallowed even by
left-leaning Papal watchers. Vatican correspondent John Allen, who
writes for the National Catholic Reporter, noted that "routine Vatican
declarations after diplomatic meetings also generally sum up the range
of issues discussed rather than concentrating on a particular point. In
that sense, the statement can only be read as a rejection of Pelosi's
statements last summer, and, in general, of her argument that it's
acceptable for Catholics in public life to take a pro-choice position."
Allen
also noted that "by issuing an unusual public statement after the
session with Pelosi -- which insisted that all Catholics, including
legislators, are obliged to work for the defense of human life from
conception to natural death -- the pope also made clear there will no
let-up in the pressure on pro-choice Catholic politicians to change
their ways."
Many pro-life organizations from the US and Canada
expressed their serious concerns to the Holy See that Mrs. Pelosi was
going to be received by the Holy Father. Some of these organizations
sent to different Vatican authorities comprehensive memoranda in which
they showed in a detailed and precise way the anti-life statements and
the pro-death voting record of Mrs. Pelosi.
Catholic sources in
Rome, who asked to remain anonymous, said they were "very much
encouraged by this statement," saying that it shows that the "Holy
Father is ready to stand up with courage to politicians that claim they
are Catholics but their voting record denies those hypocritical
assertions."
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
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- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God's Will and to do it.