Benedict XVI vs. Nancy Pelosi

Make no mistake. Fancy Nancy is now the real President of these United States. The Standard of Hope and Change is merely her loyal attendant in activating the Porkapalooza Bill. Sometimes her rhetoric gets flummoxed as in the 500 million American comment. But this lady does not play. Learned politics at the knee of daddy, ex-Baltimore mayor. Helped with the family business when ward leaders or other dependants came a-calliing. Those pothead hippies in San Fran had no idea who they were dealing with in making her a perennial Congressperson- wipes out any and all rivals. No public clashes with La Hillary either- too busy on fact-finding missions. We know they would work together like Fido and Kitty. Anyway-
Methinks the Holy Father may go easy on her. But with some warning about change your ways and repent of abortion advocacy. Which she may forget about on the transatlantic flight back to D.C. Also make no mistake. The future of the Democratic Party is very much in her hands. Whether she likes it or not. If Porkapalooza does not heal the sick, raise the dead, make the little girls go out of their heads- to paraphrase Johnny Rivers’ “The Seventh Son” from GoGo 60s- it all falls on her well-coiffed head. Might be the way a control freak wants it.

Excommunication? Not hardly. Anyone know if she’s ever gotten around to meeting with Abp. Niederauer?

it will all be very cordial…head of state meeting prominent foreign politician. we have seen it more times than we can count.

Great. Let’s take up a collection to send Ms. Pelosi’s bishop to the audience with her.

I too am certain that Benedict will not wag a finger at this dessicated old sorceress; that’s for her bishop to do. It will be a typical state meeting, as protocol dictates. That being said, Benedict certainly could have made a potent statement by simply finding something better to do that day (some “pressing” issue) and by not giving her the satisfaction of a photo-op at all.

He should have come up with an excuse and snubbed her, and there’s no one on earth who can tell me that Benedict could never, ever do such a thing as refuse admittance to this harebrained Speaker of the House. It would have been perfect and easily accomplished.

Now, the beldam has her photo-op. Benedict is a man of exquisite intellect, and I applaud his brains, but he learned not a thing from the deft way his predecessor took the mass-media in his hands and bent them to his iron will. Who knows. Benedict is not a man to be doctrinally crossed–certainly not by this woman. He may give her a piece of his mind and take a wait and see approach. One thing is certain: his outfit will be much prettier than hers at the private audience. Benedict will ~not~ be outdone by Fancy Nancy.

For what it’s worth, I hope her designer duds are spattered with the spittle of a thousand anathemas.

Hey–one can dream.

I still think Abp Burke should be in attendance. Just for funsies.

Henry Karlson,

Benedict is bright enough to know he is not an American to know the way one is to do that

spin. You perhaps have forgotten the letter to bishops authored by then Cardinal Ratzinger instructing on the the “way to do that”, as well as the numerous instructions from the Holy See which have definitively stated that legal abortion is a grave violation of natural law and the duty of every Catholic in political life to eliminate.

Following the General Audience the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage.

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.

This only a paraphrase, so we don’t know the precise language used, but this can only be considered a non-rebuke if one’s policies are not diametrically opposed to the notion. If Pelosi were a pro-abortion moderate rather than the radical she is, it could have been considered a mild correction.

So you consider ending abortion not a universal moral issue, but a “American political agenda”???

“And all the people who made predictions have been wrong…Benedict didn’t excommunicate her.”

Actually, just as I (and others) predicted. And yes he did B-16 slap her.