You may be aware of the recent public tiff between Congresswoman Pelosi and the founder of Priests for Life, Father Frank Pavone.
If not, fill yourself in (here is the letter Father Pavone wrote).
This situation of public figures professing to be Catholic in complete and utter contradiction to the very meaning of the word is becoming, unfortunately, more and more common. There are lots of reasons for this, reasons I won't get into here, but suffice to say, they are not reasons that are taking us in a good direction.
May I simply point out that Pelosi's response basically amounts to a smirking diversion? She characterizes Father Pavone's letter as "unworthy of the dignity of a response," due to its "hysterical" tone: and with a sweep of her hand the rational capabilities of her interlocutors are demolished, reduced to babbling nonsense before the shock & awe of Nancy.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is power.
I shudder to imagine if the young men and women learning to argue, for instance, in a debate class, try to emulate Ms. Pelosi. Perhaps their coaches will bow their heads in deferential silence to the magnitude of character required to sustain such forms of non-argument.
The fact is, she hasn't a leg to stand on, either religiously or intellectually. She is occupying the no-man's-land of the warmongering Quaker, the hedonistic Buddhist, the electric Amish. To claim, as Ms. Pelosi does, that her faith has nothing to do with the clear and unaltered moral teaching of the Church is a canard, a cloak for her complete disregard for any coherence in her chosen path. The only way to sustain such a path is through bluster, through spin, through deflection and doublespeak. She (or her handler) has proven to be more than adept at this. She is being called out, and her response is true to form.
Pray for her, and all who live and think as she does.
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