Say Anything Blog

By Brad Wilmouth

Tuesday’s Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC highlighted recent criticisms from Catholic Church leaders toward Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her recent claims that “the doctors of the [Catholic] Church have not been able to make that definition” of whether human life begins at conception. Appearing on Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC, when host Tom Brokaw turned to the abortion issue and asked her when she believes human life begins, Pelosi responded: “I would say that, as an ardent practicing Catholic, this 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.”

After Brit Hume ended Tuesday’s “From the Political Grapevine” segment noting that Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput had criticized Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden for his pro-choice position on abortion, the FNC host introduced a report by correspondent Shannon Bream. Hume: “Biden is not the only prominent Democrat who is out of favor with Church leaders because of abortion positions. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has also been publicly rebuked, and correspondent Shannon Bream reports on that from Washington.”

After playing the aforementioned clip of Pelosi, and, after noting that she has “been given a perfect voting score from the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League,” clips of two Archbishops were shown voicing their problems with her statement:

ARCHBISHOP DONALD WUERL: From the very beginning, first century on, the Church has said you can’t take an unborn life.

ARCHBISHOP CHARLES CHAPUT: What she said was scandalous. It could lead other people to error, and so we have a duty to correct it.

After Bream relayed that 10 Catholic Republican members of the House of Representatives had sent a letter of protest to Pelosi, another clip of Archbishop Wuerl was played: “You have to examine your conscience before you present yourself for communion, and if you are not truly living out what you believe and what you profess you believe, then the onus is on you to make the right decision about communion.”

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Another leftie exposed.