Denver archbishop slams Pelosi on Church teachings and abortion
In a statement eloquently titled “On the Separation of Sense and State,” the Archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., and his Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley harshly criticized Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for giving a confusing view of the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion, during a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Catholic public leaders inconvenienced by the abortion debate” –says the statement- “tend to take a hard line in talking about the ‘separation of Church and state.’ But their idea of separation often seems to work one way.”
“In fact, some officials also seem comfortable in the role of theologian. And that warrants some interest, not as a ‘political’ issue, but as a matter of accuracy and justice.”
Archbishop Chaput’s statement recognizes Pelosi as “a gifted public servant of strong convictions and many professional skills” but adds that “regrettably, knowledge of Catholic history and teaching does not seem to be one of them.”
I commented a while ago on the whether the Speaker of the House from San Francisco was evil or merely an idiot. In charity, I decided that the deficiency must have been in her intellectual ability. The more I actually see her corrected publicly, it seems less and less plausible (not that there was ever a strong case) that she suffers from an intellectual deficit. So if it isn’t her intellect, she must be…something more nefarious than ignorant.
