And yet she still declares her devotion to the Catholic church.
STATEN ISLAND, NY, June 27, 2013 – Fr. Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life, has challenged former House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to answer the “simple question” as to what the moral difference is between killing a baby outside the womb and killing the same baby inside.
By “continuing to support dismemberment abortion, and refusing to explain its distinction from murder, [Pelosi] has disconnected herself from both faith and reason,” Fr. Pavone said in a statement released Wednesday. “Priests for Life will not allow this to go unchallenged.”
The pro-life priest issued the statement after Pelosi, who describes herself as a devout Catholic, dismissed an open letter he had addressed to her, in which he chastised the former Speaker for her recent remarks describing the issue of late-term abortion as “sacred ground.”
“Mrs. Pelosi, for decades you have gotten away with betraying and misrepresenting the Catholic faith as well as the responsibilities of public office,” he wrote in that letter. “We have had enough of it. Either exercise your duties as a public servant and a Catholic, or have the honesty to formally renounce them.”
In a subsequent interview with Think Progress, Pelosi shot back, saying that in that letter Fr. Pavone was being “hysterical.”
“The arrogance of it all! It’s like something ancient, medieval,” she said. She also said that while she understands what the Catholic Church teaches on abortion, “my faith isn’t about what their position is.”
The war of the words between Pelosi and the priest broke out after she refused to answer a question from a reporter on June 13 about the difference between Kermit Gosnell murdering a 23-week baby after birth, and a legal abortion of a baby the same age.