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Published: February 1, 2007
A priest writes to Nancy Pelosi
“If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it?”
Fr. John Malloy, pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, penned this “Open letter to Nancy Pelosi,” which was recently published in the parish bulletin. We reprint it here with Fr. Malloy’s permission.
Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good Catholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change your non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic. Your record shows that you support embryonic stem cell research, Planned Parenthood, contraception, family planning funding, allowing minors to have an abortion without parental consent, and are against making it a crime to harm a fetus, etc. etc.
The fact that you favor married priests and women priests certainly would not classify you as conservative, but your answer to the question are you a conservative Catholic was:
“I think so. I was raised in a very strict upbringing in a Catholic home where we respected people, were observant, were practicing Catholics, and that the fundamental belief was that God gave us all a free will, and we were accountable for that, each of us. Each person had that accountability, so it wasn’t for us to make judgments about how people saw their responsibility and that it wasn’t for politicians to make decisions about how people led their personal lives; certainly, to a high moral standards, but when it got into decisions about privacy and all the rest, then that was something that individuals had to answer to God for, and not to politicians.”
That sounds fair and tolerant, but your record belies high moral standards.
The NARAL rates you 100% pro-abortion. Your statement: “To me it isn’t even a question. God has given us a free will. We’re all responsible for our actions. If you don’t want an abortion, you don’t believe in it, [then] don’t have one. But don’t tell somebody else what they can do in terms of honoring their responsibilities. My family is very pro-life. They’re not fanatics and they’re not activists. I think they’d like it if I were not so vocally pro-choice.”
Do we not elect politicians to make laws that help people honor their responsibilities, such as protecting life itself? Can politicians not tell someone else not to kill? If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it? Oh wait, you are in favor of partial birth abortion, so-called because the baby sticks out of the “mother” about halfway, while the “doctor” sucks out the baby's brain. That seems comparable to the choice the Nazis made killing six million Jews.
Yes, Nancy, we (together with your pro-life family) would all like it if you were not so vocally pro-choice, i.e. pro-death. Until your choice is in line with Catholic doctrine, please, Nancy, do not receive the Eucharist when you attend Mass.
Rev. John Malloy, SDB
San Francisco, CA
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:30 AM By Central Valley Catho
Holy Father please elevate Fr. Malloy to Bishop and assign him the the Fresno diocese.Thank Fr. Malloy for being a Catholic priest and for defending the faith and our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, something the bishops of California are afraid to do. Cowards all.
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:55 AM By Jack Clough
How refreshing. Thank God for Fr. John Malloy. Here is a priest with the fortitude which seems missing in so many of our bishops. Are you listening Wuerl?
God forgive me, but Wuerl makes me want to vomit. This red-hat seeker may get his wish,but it might come in the shape of a cone.
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:43 AM By Sharon Stockard
God bless you Fr. John Malloy,a true shepard. Why can't our so-called bishops stand and say this truth to our so-called Catholics?
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:14 AM By Gene Riehle
AMEN!
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:39 AM By Irene
This is a man with guts. God sustain him.
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:51 AM By Donald Casillo
Alleluia: Finally a priest stood up and "told it like it is."
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:38 AM By Boniface
And lets not forget the 70-80% of Catholics who use birth control and are also aborting babies via such use. Abortion is a great crime, but why do Catholics pro-lifers seek to pick and choose the personaliities to point at. It smacks of hypocrisy. Preach about the evils of contraception in the church on Sunday, then blast folks like Pelosi. Fear of losing parishioners is one reason some parish priests avoid the topic in their churches. I support abortion clininc protests, but honest pro-lifers would also hold those same signs outside their church on Sunday,as well.
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:40 AM By Irish Trad
God bless Fr. Malloy! It's just a shame that it takes a courageous parish priest to speak out on the obvious when it should be the bishops, as shepherds and guardians of the Faith, who speak out against the increasing number of "Catholic" politicians who remain obstinate and defiant of Church teaching. Instead, it seems as if our Church "leaders," such as Archbishop Wurhl, have little stomach for doing their job. What ever happened to excommunication? Oh yeah, V2 happened. Except when one tries to uphold Traditional Catholic teaching, which now seems to be a "sin" in the eyes of many so-called progressive cardinals, bishops and theologians. In fact, it seems to be the ONLY sin in their view since it appears that everything else -- any way, shape or form of deviancy --goes on with their blessing. But just when it seems darkest and the Ship is headed for the rocks, we are reminded that our Lord Jesus Christ still guides the Vessel, especially when a voice, such as Fr. Malloy's cries out in the night to defend the teachings of the One True Faith.
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:53 PM By Brian Michael Page
Kudos to Fr. Malloy for having the guts to speak out! Good for him!
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Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:34 PM By Ann Cinquina
Nancy Pelosi hasn't been doing her California law homework as she would know that a person can be tried for two murders if a woman is pregnant at the time of her murder such as were the findings of the Peterson trial. How can such a legislator act in behalf of any American if she claims murder of an unborn child is the responsibility of the mother-to-be? I guess father-to-be Peterson thought it was his responsibility to decide if his son should or should not live also. God help us from the likes of Nancy Pelosi.
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Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 2:23 AM By Boniface
Are you kidding? One remark about abortion and he is to be made a bishop? There is nothing brave or even heroic about exposing a politican who is pro-abort, while ignoring the 400 contracepting Catholics who fill the pews each Sunday.
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Posted Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:52 AM By Richard Wilson
In l934 I was seven years of age and I remember our pastor giving an impassioned sermon against BIRTH CONTROL.I had no idea what it was, but it was made very clear to me that it was something VERY BAD. 73 years have gone by since that memorable sermon and I have never once heard another sermon on the same subject. I am certain our beloved shepherd, Father Himmelriecher, prays for his sheep from a very high place in Heaven.
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Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 11:28 PM By Spirit of Vatican II
Another example of the gulf Humanae Vitae has opened up between Catholics and the rest of humanity, or rather, between conservatives like the author and the bulk of the faithful.
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Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:35 AM By Linda
Father Malloy is so right! And God bless him for taking the time and having the courage to stand up for the rights of the unborn child. We can only pray for Nancy Pelosi that she will open her eyes and her heart to the sacredness of life.
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Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:38 AM By Carole
How refreshing to see this holy priest doing his job! Now the priests who minister to the other so-called Catholic politicians in D.C. need to do the same. It really is a scandal and quite embarrassing when someone says to me that these Catholics don't seem to act and believe like you -- so then I must explain the difference that they are not truly a Catholic except in name only, not core beliefs.
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Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:56 PM By ELLEN
We need more priests like Rev. John Malloy. Praise Jesus! Send us more priests who work for God, not themselves.
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Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007 1:56 PM By Richard Smith
In Parks, Louisiana, we hear homilies on contraception several times a year.
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Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 6:10 PM By dgpscott
Where is a letter from a priest or Bishop to Governor Schwarzenegger? He is also a Catholic poliltician who is pro-choice, pro-abortion and pro-stem cell research. It is very interesting that Catholics on the right are always quick to go after Democrats (do you recall Bishop Weigand's comments regarding Gray Davis?), but turn a deaf ear to Republicans who hold the same views on these issues!
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Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 2:24 PM By Elena
First, Nancy Pelosi is MADAM SPEAKER to you, not just Nancy. Have some respect. Also SHE IS UPHOLDING LAW, not voicing her own opinions and asking the American people to to follow her belief system. I believe, however, that that is exactly what YOU are asking.
The Catholic Church, of which I am a long-time member, is a backwards organization. Last I checked, your job was guiding faithful, not getting into politics. The Pope is a political position, yes, but as a priets you a simply a follower of Christ and a preacher of the moral proactices that are in keeping with his preachings. You are out of line.
Do you want women to go back to coat-hangers and illegal, back-room abortions? Is that what you want? Do you think that preaching absence from sex to youth is working? Wake up and look around you! Your job is to be a safe-haven in the world. You are UN-Catholic in what you wrote. We are all God's creatures and if a young girl came to you, after sustaining a tramatic abortion would you close your door to her, when she came seeking solace and love, maybe when no one else offered it? Would you do the same to a gay man?
Take a look at the world your are living in and use your position as a community leader to answer the call of MODERN society.
I'll ask you one more thing: are you numbers growing? WHY NOT? Maybe because society is FAR MORE ADVANCED in its moral thinking that YOU.
Go do something useful with your day, and contribute to society, rather than throwing around disrespectful letters to law-abiding citizens WHO ARE FOLLOWING THE LAW. Not the law of Fr. Malloy, or the Catholic Church, but rather that of the American government--HER BOSS. Honestly, what is wrong with you?
Elena
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Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:58 PM By Robert Amann
I am amazed that in todays PC world there is actually a priest who will say what is the true teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. I wish all the liberal, baby killing catholics would join some liberal protestant church and quit calling themselves "long time catholics." Honestly Elena what is wrong with YOU. You are in my prayers. Robert
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Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 12:35 PM By HopeSheListens
The good father is trying to save some souls here.
Even one who directly contributes to murder can repent and ask forgiveness. Hopefully Nancy listens.
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Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 8:00 PM By brianjbyrne
Fr. Malloy is simply doing his job, as spelled out in the clear language of then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's letter as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on worthiness to recieve Communion:
"Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist."
Besides, she's already excommunicated for formal cooperation. From the Catechism:
"2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,"77 "by the very commission of the offense,"78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.79 The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. "
Pax et bonum
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Posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:01 AM By Jean
Thank you for speaking up on this subject, Father!
I always find it funny when politicians use the "free will" arguement. Why bother having any laws at all then? (I mean, I think selling drugs is wrong personally, but why should an individual have to answer to a politician for it?)
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Posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:17 AM By Jennifer
God bless you, Father, for having the guts to say these things. They very much needed to be said. I pray for her, that someday she could come to understand the Catholic Church's teachings on these things.
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Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:56 AM By John
Thank you, Father, for your letter to Nancy Pelosi. She is not only misinforming (and I pray not deliberately so) the masses about Catholic moral theology, she scandalizes the impressionable by making her actions and statements appear to be moral and in accord with the Church's and Christ's teaching. Now, if you can only widen your messsage to include others such as Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Ted Kennedy, Arnold Schwarzenengger, et al.
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:34 AM By JPG
I'm very concerned about Elena's reference to Mrs Pelosi "following the law." The notion that if something is legal it is morally right or at least morally inoffensive is totally backwards. Let us remember lessons from history, while not equating them with the abortion problem. Slavery was a very legal institution, enshrined as it were, in the laws of our country...yet gravely immoral and unjust. Religious minorities have been persecuted based on very rigorous and exact legal standards and laws...such as in Nazi Germany. However legal these laws were in their enactment and execution, they remained an offense against right reason, an offense against justice, an offense against human and natural rights, and therefore were gravely immoral. The law must conform itself to the demands of reason, justice, morality, and the common good. Without this anchor, the moors will slip and we enter into a sphere of might makes right, where the mere will of the legislator (or whoever is strongest) determines what is right and good and just. Reason and good sense, prudence and the common good are all tossed out and the way is paved for terrible consequences, legal and otherwise. The law does not make a thing good and right, it recognizes and protects what is already right. Flip this innocuously simple principle on its head and risk a repeat of the "legal" injustices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:32 AM By Elise
If not for abortion and contraception......Social Security funds would be solvent. In our selfishness and greed we decided to contracept and abort the workforce. Imagine the money that would be in the social security coffers, had we not killed so many innocents in our selfishness to have more "quality of life" and less lives.
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:14 AM By Steve
I just saw the movie "Amazing Grace" last night. One politician with perseverance, guts and tremendous love of God managed over several years to change the hearts and minds of England to end the horrendous slave trade industry. Where is our one representative in Congress. Where is our one Saint that will put an end to this culture of death that is killing our nations soul?
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:42 AM By Stephany
Ms. Pelosi used her Catholicism to try to soften the harsh image she had created over time by her rhetoric and actions in congress. As a Catholic grandmother myself, I am offended that she uses this imagery to fool the public and distort the fact that she votes for and encourages abortion, attempts to block judges that may be pro life, and marches alongside the NARAL bunch in public parades, and that's just the short list. It shames the Catholic Church when politicians and the so called "progressive" people claim catholicism and then act against the true and decent teaching of our faith. Somehow the implication is that God just didn't keep up with "modernity". How pathetically arrogant! Remember, Jesus chose the humble fishermen because they didn't think they already knew it all. Can you imagine what the enlightened crowd would think about the Apostlic group??????
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:21 PM By Linda Alicea
God bless you Father Malloy for standing up for the unborn, as it says in Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you". This country was founded on God what happened to ou faith.
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:09 PM By Mac
The Madam Speaker embodies alot of what has gone terribly wrong with this country. Exceptence of the wholesale slaughter of unborn children is not a negotiable issue for a true believer! Ms. Pelosi IS Excomunicated. I just wish the cowardly Bishopric would do so publicly!
ATTENTION ALL CATHOLICS!!!---To die in the state of mortal sin is to go to Hell!!!!
Please repent and make straight the path of the Lord!
Michael
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:07 PM By Pro-LIFE
To the woman who says have RESEPCT for Nancy !!
Nancy has no resepct for God or God's Law and he is LORD of All ! nancy I would hate to be in your shoes ... because you will know the TRURH !!! The Greatest sin aginst God is Abortion !!! Only God can give life and only God can take it !
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:30 PM By Steve
I agree with the Fr. I do have a problem with Elena's comments regarding the Fr. stay out of politics and that, that is the pope's job. First and foremost, it is the job (especially of christians) to be involved with politics. Second, saying that is the pope's job is the same as saying you could care less.
Maybe it is time for Elena to really look at the world we live in and become concerned where our political leaders have taken us and that "we" as christians have far to lnog been away from the political arena.
Should the Fr. have gone to her first, yes.... But then again, did Jesus go to the pharasee's first our use a public display to make a statement?
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Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:38 PM By Judy
God Bless you, Father Malloy. My husband and I are practicing Catholics and also active in our Parish Reverence for Life work.,focus ing on life from natural conception to natural death. May God continue to give you the courage to speak the truth as you lead your parishoners. We willl keep you in our prayers
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Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:08 AM By Michelle
Thank you Father for NOT watering down the faith! It is so important and an act of MERCY to instruct the ignorant. One does not cease instruction of a wayward Catholic, if we are in hopes that all be prepared to go to heaven. KEEP on Preaching Father, I understand that to be both Catholic and Pro-Choice, is not a possiblity. Some don't quite understand that yet, especially Nancy and (Feb. 26, 07) Elena. We are to be perfected in faith, taking the narrow road in this life. God Bless you for leading souls to Our Lord and speaking the truth in love!
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Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:37 PM By tess
Thank you Fr., for fighting for our faith and for the babies.I will have you in my praying. God is powerful and i know He is with you. Nothing is impossible with God. I surport you.
God blessd you
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Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 10:46 PM By Nilo F. Cantonjos
Thank you Father Malloy.
May the Mother of God be always with you in this fight against the culture of death.
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Posted Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:16 AM By Annette (age 16)
May God bless you till His arms ache!!!!!!
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Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:18 PM By Joe Ricker
Abortion, if asked 100 years ago the public would have been shocked. Then the 1960's came along and into the 70's, it became acceptable to abort a child. Then the 1990's came along and the public accepted partial birth abortion. What next, a women gives birth, then 2 years later says I don't want this child anymore, and the Government provides her with a gun, she shoots the child in the head causing death, are they going to call this, Choice ? We must pray as Father Frank says, Pray Pray Pray to end Abortion.
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Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:20 PM By Rector Major
I am wee bit disheartened to find that this man has so much time to blog and write so frequently. Are his parishioners not his primary focus?. Another news story referenced this blogsite and I navigated to it. It strikes me as very sad that a blogger who identifies himself as "85 years *young*" does not offer more hopeful messages. In reading through these postings and letters to the editors, I felt very sorry for this man, presumably, who served in seemingly prestigious roles in the Church. I would expect more from someone who had a leadership role as head of his order, seems to have a real affinity for working with young people, and has a cat which commands some tenderness. If this man could restructure his musings to be more hopeful, the future would not be so bleak and dismal. I guess also I am feeling a little befuddled as to why he is lamenting and lambasting this generation. As a chronologically young person, I am wondering if this older/younger man does not realize that it was he that created the situation we are in. In the end, forgo bitterness, vitriole, and sarcasm. Make the last years of life imbued with more hope for you and all of us. Oremus pro invicem!
Further.....
This guy seems to have an obsession with the whole "homosexual agenda," as he identifies it. This obsession juxtaposed with heavy conservative bent seems to cash out, in my pedestrian opinion, in "unresolved sexual identity/orientation issues." Wow, even at 85, people are still "stuck" making them poor angry, miserable, bitter queens.
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Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 8:55 AM By paddyjoe
Fr. Molloy's letter shows there is at least one cleric in the archdiocese who faithfully upholds the Church's teachings and challenges those who seek to use the church to further their careers. However he is up against it! Which will cut more ice with Ms. Pelosi, his letter or her friendship with the Prince of the Church,Archbishop Wuerl, who seems to cherish his friendship with her much more than his obligation to proclaim the truth? And how can the likes of Pelosi be refused Communion when they see no less than the Archbishop of San Francisco giving the Eucharist to two people who represent the antithesis of what the Church stands for and do so in the most public manner they can?
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Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 7:07 PM By Mike
Fr. Molloy's letter is right on!. Thank you Father for your letter to Ms. Polosi. The Church in America needs a strong voice to convey the message of the Holy Father. I believe that the Church needs to take the next step, treat these folks like tax collectors and excommunicate them. Then perhaps they will find their spiritual life again, reconcile with God and his Church and come back to the faith. We pray for your conversion Ms. Pelosi!
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Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 10:06 PM By Meghan
First, thank you so much Father Molloy. I have listened to Ms. Polosi spout her liberal views for years! It also shocks me that one poster thinks you should not write a letter to clarify the Pro-Life Church stance. One even speaks disrespectfully to you Father, and I am sorry for that.
If one does believe in, or does NOT want to follow the teachings of the Catholic Church, then ONE CANNOT CALL THEMSELVES CATHOLIC. They need to find a religion/church that allows them to just pick and choose what they want... There are new age type churches that encourage free thinking.
Again, Father, thank you!!
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Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:16 PM By Meghan
I just read this post & found it amazing...
Where is a letter from a priest or Bishop to Governor Schwarzenegger? He is also a Catholic poliltician who is pro-choice, pro-abortion and pro-stem cell research. It is very interesting that Catholics on the right are always quick to go after Democrats (do you recall Bishop Weigand's comments regarding Gray Davis?), but turn a deaf ear to Republicans who hold the same views on these issues! ? He is also a Catholic poliltician who is pro-choice, pro-abortion and pro-stem cell research.
First of all, Governor Schwarzenegger is not on the Federal Stage of Politics.... This Gov. was not on an interview representing the US Senate & Democratic Platform.... Nancy Polosi was. There is a bit difference & especially since she was basically on her way to the DNCovention!!! I find it amazing that the Platform has re-worded the Abortion stand & frankly for the first time I am voting Republican. I feel the DNC Platform on Abortion is a violation of human rights issues. How can we 'legally' kill human beings of whom many already have the power to live outside the womb but as discarded with the trash!!! It is amazing to me that we condem foreign countries for abuse of human rights & then we condone late term abortions & many for no reason other than to 'get rid' of a mistake. My comments are NOT relative to issues where the Mother's life is in danger.
America, wake up!!! I wish more Ministers/Priests have the nerve to speak out on this issue.
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Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:21 PM By Meghan
To poster Rector.... I am sure you came on the site just to spout your liberal views!!! Obviously you are not a Catholic & I think its wonderful the Father can help clarify Catholic teachings. One cannot 'pick & choose' their Church's teachings like a buffet... One does have the choice, thank God, to move to another Church that reflects their views & worship there.
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Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:31 PM By Robert
Thanks Father Molloy for your clarification! Obviously Mrs. Polosi is a total hypocrite to receive Communion. Polosi is a very smart woman & she knows she is 'mis-stating the DNC Abortion stance as apposed to Catholic doctrine.
Why is her Priest still allowing her to receive Communion is my question. This bothers me greatly that the most Liberal Democrats (named in other posts on this Blog, & adding Obama's VP) EXPECT to receive communion when they do not adhere to, nor believe as the Catholic church doctrine dictates.
I am amazed this has not been cleared up in a most public way, on a TV program!
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Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:49 PM By gRISHA
brianjbyrne: HOW DO YOU DO PARAGRAPHS?
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Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:34 AM By Karen
Bravo Fr Malloy. Maybe the church is not growing in some parts of the country, but my church and dioceses is growing by leaps and bounds and we just opened a new Co-Cathedral. There is a Catholic church in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and news of many converts in Arab countries. The church did not have to change to have this happen, indeed it is the rock of the church, the everlasting tradition, that enables people to come to the Church, not the Church bending to the will of the sinful. The Church is not out to win a popularity contest. Human life is precious from the moment of conception until death. Out of 40 million dead babies, I wonder who may have held the cure for cancer, been the catalyst for world peace, or was destined for some other amazing gift to the world, snuffed out for someone's momentary convenience. We all know how babies are made and we all know how to prevent it; by abstinance. It is about time that the leaders of the church hold Catholic politician's accountable for their public non-Catholic stance. To be Catholic is a choice, but choosing Catholic means choosing to follow Church doctrine. I suggest that these pro-death politicians choose to be something else. As an aside, Barrack does not believe in parental noficication. If he makes it to the white house, I wonder if the secret service would take his daugher for a secret abortion 3 or 4 years from now, and would he be upset if he found out?
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Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:25 PM By Dan Waldron
It is no shock that there are Catholics who straddle the fence of political opinions. Many Catholics are liberal, and it was apparently so for many decades.The Conservative Catholics are naive to think that Liberal theology has not only crept into Catholicism,but has a major voice with a strong political basis seen in the Democratic Party. At one time to find a RC in anyother party but Democrat was political and ethnic hersey.Now that Democrats are pro-choice,pro-euthanasia,pro-gay marriage, and for special interest groups, a divide must be felt big time in the Catholic bastions in the Democratic Party. What has the RCC done about Ted Kennedy over the years? Is he not one of the most liberal senators in the Democratic party,yet very Catholic at the same time, never heard too much of a stink about him.
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Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:21 PM By Eileen
Thank-you, Father Malloy for not being mediocre! Your letter is an example of great charity. Poor Elena who posted above, wants 'human respect' for Nancy Pelosi's title while Nancy Pelosi works to destroy humans. It's very clear that Elena needs prayers and courses in basic logic.
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Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:04 PM By sf cath
What is with these so called "Catholics" Here in S.F. we have Gavin newsom ( same sex ...Catholic) Supervisors..Elsbrand and Alioto (Catholics) who signed on to condem Catholic Church teachings. They are anti- Catholic yet CATHOLICS VOTE FOR THEM GO FIGURE!!!
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Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:08 AM By Life Lady
"Elena", if that is your real name? You actually sound like a homosexual man, masquerading as a woman. Father Malloy is actually doing HIS job, as you claim Nancy Pelosi is doing hers. However, the moral teaching that Father is doing is far better than the laws of this country, or any other on the face of the planet. The laws of this place do not respect the Laws of God, and if you follow them first, and ignore the Laws of God, you are doing your father''s bidding, who is satan, the prince of this world. Have fun when it all ends, and I hope you have made enough friends down here, it will be very busy, what with all the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:41 PM By Rory Wall
Now that the Pope has publicly corrected Mrs. Pelosi regarding her view on abortion, and cautioned that anyone not following the Church's teaching should not take Communion, please tell ALL the priests who might be complicit in her sin, and committing their own, to affirm their faith and refuse her Holy Communion until she publicly affirms her belief in the teachings of the Church and renounces abortion!
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Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:38 PM By steve spence
Nancy Pelosi needs to make a statement against abortion or she needs to be excluded from taking communion!
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Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:16 PM By Mark from PA
This is an interesting discussion. I hope that Nancy Pelosi's talk with the Pope had a positive impact on her. It would be nice if she would cut the ties to Planned Parenthood and NARAL. I don't see why any Catholic politician would have anything to do with NARAL.
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Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:01 PM By Anne T.
God bless, Fr. Malloy for his courage and fortitude, and may many other priests and bishops speak up to save the children.
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Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 8:11 AM By bud
As Pelosi and Biden sit behind O'Bama as he makes a speech, I truly grieve what the Democratic Party has come to be i.e., pander to anybody and anything by omission or commission for their votes. Old Slavic Saying: Pan Boh Zaplat!!!!! (God will repay you)
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Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:19 AM By Marie
Nancy, and she is Nancy to me unless I am addressing her in Congress, is using her religion as she thinks it gives her more support. A priest has as much right to an opinion as any one. Abortion is a hard issue...not to discount a mother's health, or rape... most women seek abortion on a "I don't want a baby basis". Responsibility comes to mind. Why did they put themselves in that positon in the first place and that, by statistics is the main reason for abortion. American's today lack responsibility to themselves, to other people as seen in the disrepectful way people treat each other, and commitment to faith, marriage and family; not to mention that ethics and honesty seem like they do not exist any more. Even though the President has said "we are no longer a Christian nation" I still consider myself a Christian and an American trying daily to be responsible person.
thak you and God bless
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Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:50 PM By JLS
The reason for abortion is the devil's attempt to steal the sacrificial lamb.
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Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:10 PM By Abeca Christian
God bless this priest! AMEN!
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Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:02 PM By Dee
Father Malloy what can be done about the priests who say they voted for a man who is for partial birth abortion. How can they ignore the killing of the the unborn and worse the born if by accident during a botched abortion . This does not make sense. How can they say he is for the poor.,and ignore this point . Not to mention what has he done for the poor....?Might I add God decided to send his only begotten son as an unborn child in the womb!
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Posted Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:42 AM By Edward T. Graney
I have fought for Pro-life since the inception of Rope vs Wade, in l973. Now we have the majority on our Supreme Court that are Roman Catholic, or claim to be. That is the way to go, not letters by anyone. Have the Bishops (They;'re not doing the job against abortion) push those members of the Supreme Court who claim to be Roman Catholic, all 6 of them, to overturn Roe vs Wade OR EXCOMMUNICATE THEM!
Otherwiose you too are wasting your time. I write them every month. How about that kind of letter camapign. It woild get their attention, as they've have to hire more people in their mailing room, and when the bottom line is a buck - watch out...Thank you for allowing me this posting.Oh, the beloved Pope John II said, "If you are not Pro-life then you needn't consider yourself to be a Roman Catholic."
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