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Monday November 18, 2002
PRO-ABORTION DEM HOUSE LEADER CALLS HERSELF A "CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC"
Bishop Urged to Call 'Catholic' Politician To Task
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WASHINGTON, November 18, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On CNN's "Inside Politics," November 14, Nancy Pelosi, the new House Minority Leader, said, "Yes, I'm a liberal Democrat, but I'm a conservative Catholic." Her comment was also cited in today's edition of USA Today, November 15.
The Catholic League blasted Pelosi's false self-characterization noting her pro-abortion views extend even to defending partial birth abortion. Catholic League president William Donohue said, "In short, Pelosi's spin game is insulting. No conservative Catholic we know okays the killing of kids 80 percent born."
American Life League President Judie Brown has written Pelosi's bishop, Archbishop William Levada of San Francisco, to let him know that Pelosi is causing scandal. Pelosi (D-Calif.) is one of "many members of Congress who claim Catholicism as their creed while doing everything they can to undermine basic teachings of the Church and the Biblical principles upon which those teachings are based. And people listen to them," wrote Brown.
"The Catholic hierarchy must be made aware that the public behavior of pro-abortion political figures such as Nancy Pelosi, who claim solidarity with the Catholic faith, creates an extremely dangerous situation for other Catholics," said Mrs. Brown. "It is our hope that Archbishop Levada -- and other shepherds of the Church -- will call these politicians to task for their belligerent and insistent promotion of abortion, an act which, according to Church teaching, is a grievous sin. Souls are at stake. We pray for Rep. Pelosi, that she may repent of her continued advocacy of child killing."
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