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Will the Bishops Join Planned Parenthood in Recognizing Pelosi?

March 12, 2014 by Gerard M. Nadal

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News today from Joan Frawley Desmond in the National Catholic Register that Nancy Pelosi will be honored with Planned Parenthood’s highest honor, the Sanger Award. From the article:

SAN FRANCISCO — On March 27, Planned Parenthood will bestow its highest honor on Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., minority leader in the House of Representatives and a self-identifying Catholic. The Margaret Sanger Award, named for the organization’s founder, who was a known proponent of eugenics, will recognize Pelosi for her legacy of “excellence and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement.”

Desmond chose the right word for the award. It is a “legacy” recognition. The recipients are often feted for their lifetime achievement in advancing the agenda set forth by Margaret Sanger. Desmond also wastes no time in the article in getting down to brass tacks:

“Abortion and Catholicism never go together. When a national leader, such as Speaker Pelosi, conflates the two, it, unfortunately, can lead other Catholics — who believe there is no issue with pro-abortion beliefs and the practice of their Catholic faith — to miss the opportunity to reconcile their views with Church teaching,” Scot Landry, the director of Catholic Voices USA, told the Register.

“That is sad, a tremendous scandal in our Church and a disservice to all those who follow her example.”

In 2013, Cardinal Raymond Burke, who heads the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, stated in a published interview that Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law “must be applied” to determine whether Pelosi should receive the Eucharist.

“This is a person who, obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic,” said Cardinal Burke.

Read it all.

Cardinal Burke was quite correct, but back here in the States his admonition seems to have gone unheeded.

No More.

Planned Parenthood has changed the game with this recognition, and in a way that goes far beyond just Pelosi. This is about all of Pelosi’s fellow travelers from the Church: Biden, the Cuomo’s, the Kennedy’s, etc. They play as a team, and they have been winning as a team for generations with over 57 million dead babies to their credit. Add to that Obamacare and its malignancy, the HHS mandate, loss of religious freedom, advancing the culture of death in our schools… Why shouldn’t Planned Parenthood applaud such a malignant record? There is no way this could have been achieved without the Catholic squad on the Democrat team. Catholics such as the late “Lion of the Senate,” Teddy Kennedy, and Speaker of the House Pelosi have made Cecile Richards’ organization wealthy, powerful, and deadly. The reception of this award cannot go unaddressed by the Church. It is the final, defiant finger in the eye to the bishops.

These Catholic leaders have been at war with the Church, with God, and with humanity for generations. Apart from a few lions through the years, the meek and timid response of the bishops in the face of the rising tide of the blood of innocents has been scandalous in itself. I have been told by some that the concern is a loss of our tax-exempt status. If the bishops can’t see that looming on the horizon anyway, then they are blind, indeed. The only hope to save that status, and the souls of countless Catholics is to rouse themselves at this turn of events.

We are beyond conversation about reception of the Eucharist at this point. The question is why we cannot acknowledge that legislators who vote specifically for abortion funding (not general budgets containing abortion funding) but specific legislation for protecting, funding, and facilitating abortion are formal cooperators in abortion, and as such have already incurred automatic (latae sententiae) excommunication as such? On the consequences of this there can be no more doubt or debate. None of the Catholics in the party of death have defended the Church against the Obama administration’s war on religion. They are all in, all the way.

We have nothing to lose that we have not already lost, or will lose soon enough. That said, what is most frightfully at stake is the very moral authority of the bishops themselves. Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion Catholic legislators are celebrating a lifetime of malignant success in the middle of Lent. The time has come for the bishops to recognize that milestone with a pronouncement of their own, one that is long overdue.

We lift them up in prayer as we witness this mockery of all that is sacred.

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Posted in Abortion, Planned Parenthood | Tagged Bishops, Nancy Pelosi, Sanger Award | 10 Comments

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  1. on March 13, 2014 at 12:05 AM Teresa Rice

    Reblogged this on Catholibertarian.


  2. on March 13, 2014 at 4:31 AM danmisli

    Thanks for the article, Gerard. There may be a bishop here or there that will say something at some point. But the bishops as a whole will do nothing. RCC has not much more than those who live in the land of PolCor, into which they were born and bred – they do not want to lose their status in that political landscape. The faithful have only prayer and the sacraments to depend on. Christ alone can be our leader as His human delegates are failing us consistently and repeatedly. Sorry to write these things, indeed IMHO. However, the track record is glaring – to not see it is surely to be blind. I can only hope that I am wrong…that somehow they could be shamed into change…but they appear to be shameless.


  3. on March 13, 2014 at 9:15 AM ladyoffatima

    THE SANGER AWARD Margaret Sanger was a Communist as clearly documented in The Red Network by Elizabeth Dilling available at Abebooks.com. Malachi Martin, a former Jesuit himself, warned when many Jesuits turned communist beginning the early 1960s in his book THE JESUITS. [Last sentence cut as it seemed a threat to the bishops. LOVE of the bishops and RESPECT for their office are the animating principles on this blog, with the occasional call to action being given in that spirit ~G.N.]


  4. on March 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM Ellen Kolb

    You are perfectly on target in recognizing the role of tax-exempt status in the behavior of the American church. C’mon, guys – the HHS mandate practically screams out the government’s intention to deny charitable status to any entity that refuses to go along with the prevailing wind.
    I acknowledge the huge responsibilities that come with being a bishop. None of them wants to do more harm than good in defending Church teaching. But look where reticence has gotten us.


  5. on March 13, 2014 at 4:24 PM ladyoffatima

    If the Church Militant praying for the bishops is a threat, then they have an open door wittingly and unwittingly supporting Margaret Sanger communism. I submit, today’s Church has to get solid on the catechism definition of “Church Militant.”


  6. on March 13, 2014 at 6:26 PM Mark McHugh

    Sounds like the Holocaust all over again. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. I think that it is time for the “Catholic Squad” referenced in the article to decide where they stand. If they persist in backing the mothers who kill their children, then they should be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Let them decide, as Christ said, whether they are either “for Him or against Him”. Unfortunately, I dont think that the American Bishops have, in the words of madeline Albright, the “cajones” to stand up for what is right.


  7. on March 13, 2014 at 11:03 PM Steve

    The bishops are failing in their role of as shepherds. By allowing Catholics who publicly support abortion, politicians in particular, they are placing the souls of such Catholics in serious danger of loosing eternal happiness in God’s kingdom. Note 1Cor 11:27-32 is a cautionary instruction and does not condemn:
    “27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. 30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.”
    Excellencies you are loosing souls if you say nothing. I would then fear for my own salvation. I pray for the leaders of our Church everyday as we all should.


  8. on March 14, 2014 at 9:45 AM matt25

    Pray for the bishops. Pray for the politicians. Pray for all those who fight for life and those who fight against life. Pray, pray, pray. Even more than the lives of innocents are at stake. It is souls also that hang in the balance for eternity. God loves Nancy Pelosi no less than me or you or our bishops.


  9. on March 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM Pro-life blog buzz 3-18-14 - Jill Stanek

    […] Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal has a strong statement about Planned Parenthood’s intention to bestow their […]


  10. on March 25, 2014 at 8:11 PM Kate

    That the bishops are failing is an understatement. And the only bishop speaking up — Cardinal Burke — was fired from his job by the Pope, who is busy this week giving photo ops to Obama.



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