San Francisco archbishop rebuts Pelosi’s argument on conscience
Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco has written that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who lives in his archdiocese, betrayed “some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom” in a December magazine interview.
In a conversation with Newsweek last month, Pelosi had said that her support for legal abortion reflects her belief in human freedom. Her archbishop, responding in a column for the San Francisco archdiocesan newspaper, noted that “human freedom does not legitimate bad moral choices, nor does it justify a stance that all moral choices are good if they are free.” . . . (Click link above for full article)
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At what point does the good Archbishop do his duty and excommunicate Mrs. Pelosi? If she lived in Lincoln, NE she’d have been sanctioned years ago.
If \her support for legal abortion reflects her belief in human freedom\, then she should be for the abolition of all laws, as all laws limit human freedom in some way.
She doesn’t have to make sense since she is her own magesterium. Works in the this world, not so sure about the next.