Nancy Pelosi played her Catholic card today but wait just a minute Madam Speaker

>>>  I hesitated to post anything about this but concluded it's important to set the record straight.  Yes, all of us fall short; all of us sin.  Many of us walking this good earth can say I am Catholic or I was raised Catholic.  Currently, there are about 1.2 billion of us clinging to the faith established by Christ.  Nancy Pelosi was raised Catholic and Nancy Pelosi tells us she is Catholic.  So my non-Catholic friends and readers will understand, especially if you caught her dramatic pronouncement today, Nancy Pelosi knows she has abandoned the faith of Holy Mother Church.  Now there are many ways to abandon or walk away from Jesus, many did, when he declared the Eucharist as real food, real drink, His very body and blood, then again by those who wanted to curry favor with man(Jewish leaders who despised Jesus), then again at the Crucifixion.  In every generation many walk away from Christ by leaving the Church.  Then there are those who so demonstrably and publicly disagree with the Church that they actually excommunicate themselves.  Nancy Pelosi would be one self excommunicated Catholic.  Why?  Because the Church holds life as so sacred, so important, so foundational that even supporting abortion, in word or deed, makes one excommunicated.  Don't have time to explore this but please remember excommunication is meant to be remedial; the excommunicated can, with right cooperation be reconciled to Holy Mother Church.  However, you must repent of your grave sin and reject it going forward forever more.  Nancy Pelosi, up to today, as done no such thing.  Let me be clear: A Catholic can not, must not, should not stand for abortion and abortion hacks like Planned Parenthood.  Back to the beginning, Nancy Pelosi has sinned very publicly but many of us, me included, are sinners too.  So I commend Nancy Pelosi to God praying for her to repent, turning away from sin and believing in the Gospel.  I lift her in prayer today and desire God's mercy for her, and for me, and for all of us reading this.

Pelosi fumes: ‘I don’t hate anybody. I was raised Catholic’

December 5, 2019 CNA Daily News News Briefs 3 Print

Washington D.C., Dec 5, 2019 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rejected the suggestion that she “hates” President Donald Trump, and said that her Catholic faith prevents her from hating anyone. 

"I don't hate anybody. I was raised in a Catholic house, we don't hate anybody—not anybody in the world,” said Pelosi. She had been asked by a journalist during her weekly press briefing if she “hates President Trump.”

Pelosi had earlier announced the House Democrats would begin drafting the articles of impeachment. 

"As a Catholic I resent you using the word 'hate' in a sentence that addresses me," a visibly angered Pelosi said, pointed her finger at the journalist. She went on to claim that she prays for Trump “all the time.” 

“So don't mess with me when it comes to words like that," she added. The Speaker said that any disagreement with Trump was rooted in policy, not in who he was as a person. 

Pelosi has in the past encouraged people to pray for President Trump. In October, Pelosi said that people should pray for the president’s health after she abruptly left a meeting with the President. In September, Pelosi said that she prays for the Trump family “all the time,” and that she “wish(es) that he would pray for the safety of other families and do something courageous on guns.” 

On Twitter, Trump said that he did not believe Pelosi prays for him, “not even close,” and that Pelosi had suffered a “nervous fit” during her briefing. 

“She hates that we will soon have 182 great new judges and sooo much more,” said Trump. “Help the homeless in your district Nancy,” he added. 

Pelosi has repeatedly cited her Catholic faith in the political realm, and used it to justify her positions, especially her long-standing support for abortion. Pelosi’s statements have occasioned significant pushback from members of the Catholic hierarchy at different times. 

In 2008, in her second year as Speaker of the House, Pelosi stated on an August 24 episode of “Meet the Press” that "as an ardent, practicing Catholic, [abortion] is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition,” and that her faith “shouldn’t have an impact on a woman’s right to choose.” 

At least 22 bishops released statements correcting Pelosi on this statement, and clarified the Church’s teachings on abortion. 

“While in canon law these theories led to a distinction in penalties between very early and later abortions, the Church’s moral teaching never justified or permitted abortion at any stage of development,” said a statement published Aug. 25, 2008 by Cardinal Justin Rigali and then- Bishop William Lori. 

At the time, Rigali was the chair of the USCCB’s pro-life activities committee, and Lori led the USCCB Committee on Doctrine. Lori is now the Archbishop of Baltimore and Rigali retired in 2011. 

In June 2013, Pelosi opposed a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks gestation and said that the bill was an effort to ensure that “there will be no abortion in our country.”

“As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this,” she said at the time. “I don't think it should have anything to do with politics