Pope Francis Gives Pro-Abort Pelosi Friendly Private Audience
Pope Francis hosted Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi today at the Vatican for a private audience. Below are pictures showing just how well the audience seems to have gone. I suppose there is the slim possibility that the pope told radically pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Nancy Pelosi she needs to stop supporting moral evils (condemned by Catholic doctrine) if she wants to call herself Catholic, but I’m betting the pope who gave a pontifical honor to a pro-abortion activist did not charitably hint Pelosi toward orthodoxy. I suppose we’ll see, but nothing indicating such a state of affairs has yet been reported.
This is frankly rather nauseating, especially considered in light of past controversial actions from this pope. There are similar photos of Pope Francis’s friendly visit with murderous Cuban dictator Fidel Castro at a time when Cuba was openly abusing and arresting Catholics who tried to see the pope. Under Francis, the Vatican made and then renewed the infamous deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was heavily persecuting faithful Catholics. And instead of taking a hard stance against abortion or another ubiquitous evil condemned by Catholicism, Francis has taken a hard and restrictive stance against faithful, traditional Catholics and the Latin Mass.
“‘It was a spiritual, personal, and official honor to have an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis this morning,’ Mrs. Pelosi said in a statement Saturday. ‘His Holiness’s leadership is a source of joy and hope for Catholics and for all people, challenging each of us to be good stewards of God’s creation, to act on climate, to embrace the refugee, the immigrant and the poor, and to recognize the dignity and divinity in everyone.’”
Notice the laundry list of leftist causes. Pope Francis has mandated the Covid vaccine (or face penalties) in the Vatican, pushed for “climate change” activism and “global governance,” and supported radical LGBTQ activist Fr. James Martin. Meanwhile Francis has made great efforts to meet with Muslim leaders while stabbing traditional Catholics and Chinese Catholics in the back. The pope endorsed the untrue statement that God wills a “diversity of religions” and processed an idol traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice before the altar of St. Peter’s. I suppose it should be no surprise that Francis should have a very friendly meeting with Pelosi.
I understand the importance, the necessity, of diplomacy. I understand that there is a right way to say things and a wrong way to say things. But I also know that when the pope meets with Pelosi in such a way, it not only affirms the pro-abortion politicians in her stance as a “Catholic” who openly flaunts Catholic teaching, it sends a terrible message to the whole Church and the rest of the world. Nancy Pelosi called abortion “sacred ground.” That’s pretty serious. Pope St. John Paul II “publicly upbraided [liberation theologian] Cardenal at Managua’s international airport” in 1983. Below is the picture. JPII did a number of problematic actions, but he still had the courage, the belief in the pope’s role as evangelizer, that enabled him to rebuke those “Catholics” openly contradicting Catholic doctrine. Pope Francis has spiritual as well as political responsibilities, too.