Pope Francis: Abortion ‘is Truly Murder’
(CNSNews.com) - Pope Francis said in an address given to the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican on Sept. 27 that abortions “is truly murder.”
An English translation of the pope’s address has been posted on the Vatican’s website.
In the same speech, Pope Francis also condemned euthanasia.
“Here too, I would like to mention that we are victims of the throwaway culture,” the pope said in his address.
“In his presentation, Msgr Paglia [Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life] referred to something: but there is the throwing away of children that we do not want to welcome, with that abortion law that sends them back to their sender and kills them.
“Today this has become a ‘normal’ thing, a habit that is very bad; it is truly murder,” said the pope.
“In order to truly grasp this, perhaps asking ourselves two questions may help: is it right to eliminate, to end a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem? Abortion is this,” said Pope Francis.
“And then on the other side, are the elderly: the elderly who are also a bit of ‘throwaway material’ because they are not needed.... But they are the wisdom, they are the roots of the wisdom of our civilization, and this civilization discards them!
“Yes, in many places there is a ‘hidden’ law on euthanasia, as I call it. It is the one that makes us say: ‘medicines are expensive, only half should be given,’” said the pope. “This means shortening the lives of the elderly. In so doing, we deny hope, the hope of the children who bring us the life that makes us go forward, and the hope that is in the roots that the elderly give us. Instead, we discard both.
And then the everyday throwing away, that life is thrown away,” said the pope. “Let us be careful about this throwaway culture. It is not a problem of one law or another. It is a problem of throwing away. And on this point, you academics, the Catholic universities and also Catholic hospitals cannot allow themselves to go this way. This is a path which we cannot take: the throw away path.”
At a press conference he held on his flight back to Rome from Slovakia on Sept. 15, Pope Francis also referred to abortion as murder.
The Vatican News ran a transcript of that press conference under the headline: “Pope: Abortion is murder, the Church must be close and compassionate, not political.”
“The second problem, that of abortion: it's more than a problem, it's homicide, whoever has an abortion, kills,” the pope said in that press conference. “No mincing words. Take any book on embryology for medical students. The third week after conception, all the organs are already there, even the DNA... it is a human life, this human life must be respected, this principle is so clear!
“To those who cannot understand, I would ask this question: Is it right to kill a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to kill a human life? Scientifically, it is a human life,” said the pope. Is it right to take it out to solve a problem?
“That is why the Church is so harsh on this issue, because if it accepts this, it is as if it accepts daily murder,” said Pope Francis.
Nancy Pelosi: ‘“When I Was Naked, You Clothed Me.” All of Those Things in the Gospel of Matthew…’
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) quoted from the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins from the Gospel of Matthew at a press event focused on public housing that she held in San Francisco on Friday with San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
“Madam Mayor, it's always a joy to be with you while we're talking about low-income housing, affordable housing, public housing and the rest, and to hear you speak from your own personal experience about it,” Pelosi said.
“‘When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was homeless, you gave me shelter. When I was naked, you clothed me.’ All of those things in the Gospel of Matthew, the Mayor brings to the experience,” Pelosi said.
“Madam Mayor, thank you for your tremendous leadership and how that experience has benefited so many people,” she said.
“And just viewing this project at Sunnydale, it's about respect. Respect for the tenants–they are the VIPs,” said Pelosi. “We're here to speak, but they are the VIPs, whose needs we're here to meet and to meet in a way that is respectful and recognizes that some families are multi-generation – grandparents, family, children – and therefore three bedroom, access to bathrooms for, just accessible in every way.
“And that's–I say this because it is a model for the country,” said Pelosi. “It is a model for the country to see how San Francisco deals with this.”
Here is the full text of Pelosi’s speech:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “Madam Mayor, it's always a joy to be with you while we're talking about low-income housing, affordable housing, public housing and the rest, and to hear you speak from your own personal experience about it. But, my friends, Madam Secretary, Madam Lieutenant Governor, elected officials who are here – those of us who have been with the Mayor within a community event know that no matter what this subject is, whether we’re at gun safety events – the Mayor speaks from her experience growing up in public housing and the need for us to address that matter. When we're giving out food to the poor, the Mayor knows what it means for people to be hungry because of her experience in growing up – the list goes on, for talking about health care from her experience so that we're meeting the needs of those who need the help the most. And it's just a beautiful, inspiring experience to hear her speak about it because it's the continuum of concerns – housing central to it.
“‘When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was homeless, you gave me shelter. When I was naked, you clothed me.’ All of those things in the Gospel of Matthew, the Mayor brings to the experience. Madam Mayor, thank you for your tremendous leadership and how that experience has benefited so many people.
“And just viewing this project at Sunnydale, it's about respect. Respect for the tenants – they are the VIPs. We're here to speak, but they are the VIPs, whose needs we're here to meet and to meet in a way that is respectful and recognizes that some families are multi-generation – grandparents, family, children – and therefore three bedroom, access to bathrooms for, just accessible in every way.
“And that's–I say this because it is a model for the country. It is a model for the country to see how San Francisco deals with this. And sometimes when we've been at Alice Griffith and other openings or groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings, every step of the way, to see how – what it does for people, to see that they are treated with respect by housing that meets their needs in a way that they had some say in putting together and everything that goes with it. Whether it's a community center or whatever else – a model to the nation.
“And that's why it's such a treat to have our Secretary here today. Because she understands this full well, from her whole career, her whole career in public service, at the local level, whether it was dealing with foreclosures or mortgage access or abandoned buildings. Every aspect of housing that is challenged for people, that is challenging for people.
“In the Congress of the United States, a Member of the Agriculture Committee. That sounds rural, and she understands rural needs, but it's about food in the cities. And that's why Shirley Chisholm wanted to be on the Ag Committee. And that's why our distinguished Madam Secretary served us so well there for all aspects of our communities, including urban needs related to housing and the continuum of meeting needs.
“And then, she also served on the Education and Labor Committee, where we're talking about the education of our children. And the Mayor knows full well how the dignity kids have going to school when they can bring their friends home and feel proud, and feel proud.
“And she also served – and this is very important right now, all of it is, but this is timely, this week, something will come up next week in the Senate on this. She led the effort in the House of Representatives to bring to the – to take testimony and bring to the Floor of the House, the voting protection act bills that are there. The [John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act] that we had written last year for this year, but her role was in the Voter Protection Act, to remove obstacles of participation to the vote for people of color for people in lower income neighborhoods, because that was the assault that was being made on the vote in our country.
“So, in her experience, whether it's, whether it was, again, the fundamental respect for people to be able to have the vote and have their vote respected, whether it was the housing that – in which they lived, as she now is Madam Secretary, but throughout her career has been a champion on this. She brings that experience of to the Secretary's office. And again, Madam Secretary, we're honored to have you here.
“We're very proud of the fact that California – and I want to salute our Lieutenant Governor, because of her experience in terms of housing as well – California has figured out a way to make use of every public policy option, whether it's tax code, low income housing tax credits, bonds, whether it's the ever-popular appropriations process to dip into that, or whether it's policy matters that make a difference in timing and the rest for, for us to meet the needs of the people.
“We're now in the process of debating the Build Back Better. President Biden has said, ‘I want to support everything we can do in a bipartisan way’ – and that's one bill that was written – ‘but I will not confine my vision for America to what can be done in that way.’ We have much more that needs to be done. And now, as we are in that debate, we're debating what will be contained in the housing aspects of that.
“We couldn't be better served than by the Biden Administration's great Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Remember, not just House – HUD, Housing and Urban Development, which involves so many aspects of meeting the needs of the American people.
“So, it is my honor to thank everyone. Doug, of course, Mr. Blackwell and our President of the Board and Joaquin and the State Senator and Malia, as well as our Lieutenant Governor. Thank you, Doug, for your – Doug Shoemaker, for your lead, and Mr. Blackwell as well. And so many others who made this day – are making this day possible.
“But now I have the great honor of bringing to the podium, my friend. I served with her for more than 20 years in the Congress of the United States. I saw firsthand–her leadership and her judgment that she has about these issues serves our country well, but more importantly for us today, appreciates what is happening here in San Francisco.
“Madam Secretary, Madam Secretary Marcia Fudge.”
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S BRIBES SUCKING KLEPTOCRACY
Watters' World' investigates Nancy Pelosi's financial dealings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M4QZJxb9Dw
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S BRIBES SUCKING KLEPTOCRACY
Watters' World' investigates Nancy Pelosi's financial dealings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M4QZJxb9Dw
As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care.
Donald Trump Questions Nancy Pelosi’s Corruption
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President Donald Trump questioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s dubious participation in stock market initial public offering shares, enriching her family.
The president shared a clip Monday highlighting a CBS 60 Minutes report featuring author and Breitbart senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s investigation into Pelosi and her husband participating in at least eight different stock IPOs while in Congress.
"The House gone rogue! I want to remind you a little bit about the ring leader in this whole rogue operation against the President of the United States..." @MarkLevinShow
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60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft confronted Pelosi on the topic in 2011, but she denied any impropriety.
The report noted that Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering of Visa in 2008, while credit card regulation was underway in the House of Representatives. The Pelosis bought 5,000 shares at the initial price of $44 and shares were trading at $64 just two days later, according to the report.
“Congress has never done more for consumers nor has the Congress passed more critical reforms of the credit card industry than under the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi,” Pelosi spokesman, Drew Hammill, said in a statement, according to CNN after the 60 Minutes report aired.
The clip was featured on Mark Levin’s Fox News show Life, Liberty and Levin on Sunday.
Turns out Biden's family not the only one to benefit from Ukrainian fossil fuels
On Sept. 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the official impeachment inquiry that would be led by the Intelligence Committee and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). At first, this was a curious decision to objective persons, since the Judiciary Committee has the authority over this type of procedure. At the time, Pelosi indicated a threat by President Donald Trump to our national security during the July 25 conversation between him and President Zelensky of Ukraine. She did this without the benefit of the transcript, but she doubtless already knew much of the CIA "whistleblower's" complaint. Further, the Ukrainian president disputes her version.
But this is not the rationale for her haste to convene the investigation. It appears that the D.C. swamp benefits another powerful family. The Biden family has gotten special treatment from Ukrainian oil interests, and the Pelosi family has a similar advantage. Paul Pelosi, Jr. was a board member of Viscoil and an executive at its related company NRGLab, which was involved in energy business in Ukraine. Perhaps the use of the Intelligence Committee has given the Democrats the opportunity to limit Republican questioning and maintain secrecy over the responses from subpoenaed witnesses. This would prevent any official record implicating Pelosi's son. This also explains her reluctance to take a vote authorizing the investigation, since the minority party would gain some rights.
This is interesting also since much of the Democratic Party rejects carbon-based energy sources. Biden has made this a part of his campaign. The Green New Deal proposals will eventually end dependency on oil and gas as an energy source. But this does not stop these politicos from benefiting financially from this sector of the economy. This reminds one of the financial benefits that Al Gore's father had from Occidental Petroleum, which was one of the great polluters (remember Love Canal?). He chose to make money selling carbon offsets to atone and make his own name.
The Ukrainian oil company Burisma used many well connected members of the D.C. establishment connected to the Obama administration. This interlocking swamp is a threat to the USA. But the media have managed to convince a vast number of Americans that Trump is the threat. When Trump railed against Pelosi in Louisiana on Friday, he was accusing her of not just splitting the nation politically, but also ignoring the financial benefits to powerful families at the detriment of our national security. This also helps explain the constant discussion in public about Biden's son Hunter, in addition to the political advantage he might gain.
No wonder the establishment (including many Republicans) wants to impeach Trump. Family security always "trumps" national security in the D.C. swamp.
NANCY PELOSI GOT RICH OFF ELECTED OFFICE AND SERVICING THE “CHEAP” LABOR LOBBIES - Jim Gilchrist asked the question about Nancy Pelosi’s ethics that should be on the minds of every law-abiding American – including those immigrants who are following the law to become citizens here the proper way: “Do we really need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to enhance her own financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders will affect the security of everyday American citizens?”
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Gilchrist was reacting to my report several weeks ago in FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor – is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.
Pelosi's Stake in Illegal Immigration
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The Minuteman Project, founded by Jim Gilchrist (who is also the co-author of the book Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders), is made up of citizen volunteers who watch our border with Mexico and report illegal entry to the border patrol. For performing that thankless task in full compliance with the law, Gilchrist and his colleagues have been falsely maligned as fascists, racists, and even murderers. They have been driven off the speaker’s platform at Columbia University and vilified by Leftist politicians and their handmaidens in the liberal press.
So it was no surprise that the mainstream media chose to ignore a recent press release, issued by his publisher, in which Gilchrist asked the question about Nancy Pelosi’s ethics that should be on the minds of every law-abiding American – including those immigrants who are following the law to become citizens here the proper way: “Do we really need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to enhance her own financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders will affect the security of everyday American citizens?”
Gilchrist did not stop there. He demanded an investigation into Pelosi’s “economic stake in just the kind of illegal alien exploitation that we deplore in Minutemen.” But you would never know it from the liberal media, who - while ignoring this demand - have had no compunctions in calling for Speaker Hastert’s head in the wake of the Foley page controversy.
Gilchrist was reacting to my report several weeks ago in FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor – is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.
At the same time, Pelosi has led the Democratic opposition to any effective border controls or documentation requirements. She opposed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed into law by President Bush, and voted against final passage of a border security and enforcement bill in 2005 which required that all businesses must use an electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work in this country. She voted against a bill to bar drivers' licenses for illegal aliens in 2005. This year she opposed legislation requiring presentation of a legitimate government-issued photo ID to prove eligibility to vote, claiming that “there is little evidence anywhere in the country of a significant problem with non-citizen voters.” She is dead wrong. For example, an accused terrorist by the name of Nuradin Abdi was just recently reported to have illegally registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Nuradin Abdi was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall.
How many other terrorist suspects may have slipped through the system because Leftists like Pelosi oppose any meaningful screens? Instead she continues to advocate our recognition of the flimsy, non-validated ID card that the Mexican consulates provide to illegal aliens before they cross over our border, called the “matricula consular”, which gives them phony documentation to set up bank accounts, apply for jobs, obtain social benefits, board airplanes, identify themselves to police, enter buildings that require IDs, obtain drivers’ licenses and then perhaps use those drivers’ licenses to try to illegally register to vote in our elections.
Pelosi also believes in giving sanctuary to illegal aliens. She opposed legislation to deny federal homeland security funding to state and local governments who refuse to share information they learn about an individual's immigration status with Federal immigration authorities. Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco is one of the sanctuary cities she voted to protect for the benefit of illegal aliens. Pelosi even voted against strengthening our immigration law with regard to the deportability of alien terrorists.
Jim Gilchrist cut to the chase with this devastating observation that the mainstream media does not want you to read:
"As we’ve shown again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are working actively to subvert our legislative system to their own ends. Their only goal is votes, votes and more votes, no matter where they come from, no matter if they’re cast legally, no matter whether the person casting them is dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal alien."
Pelosi sees Jim Gilchrist’s Minutemen Project as a threat to her pro-illegal alien agenda. More illegal aliens mean more votes for the Democrats and more grape-pickers for Napa Valley vineyards like hers. So she even voted against a measure that would have cut off the use of U.S. taxpayers’ funds to tip off illegal aliens as to where the Minutemen citizen patrols may be located! She obviously wants to see the Minutemen put out of business – permanently. She can count on the liberal press to distort the work of the Minutemen and to keep out of the public eye Gilchrist’s pointed questions about her motivations for helping illegal aliens during the run-up to the mid-term elections that may make her the next Speaker of the House.
Gilchrist, of course, is accustomed to being vilified and prevented by the Left from getting his message out. In early October, he was prevented from finishing his speech at the "Minutemen Forum" sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans. Gilchrist had spoken for just a few minutes and managed to utter the words “I love the First Amendment” when a group of radical protestors took the stage and interrupted him, displaying a big banner saying "There are no illegals." More protestors then stormed the stage. Chaos erupted and the audience members who had come to hear Gilchrist speak never got the chance, which was precisely the protestors’ objective. As reported online by the staff of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, “a mosh pit of triumphal students and community members danced and chanted outside, "Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!" They also put out a statement declaring:
“The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on immigration. They are a racist, armed militia who have declared open hunting season on immigrants, causing countless hate crimes and over 3000 deaths on the border. Why should exploitative corporations have free passes between nations, but individual people not? No human being is illegal.” (Emphasis added)
We have come to the point in this country where a bunch of radical protestors get to decide who is and who is not a legitimate voice in the debate on as critical a public policy issue as immigration. Such Leftists think that migration in a borderless world is a basic human right. They want no barriers, no guards, and no proof of lawful residency. They certainly do not want the Minutemen watching the border and reporting illegal entry to the authorities.
Leftist slogans like “no human being is illegal” are red herrings. It is not the human being who is illegal; it is what the human being does that may be illegal. One’s conduct is the test, not simply who one is. Immigrants who follow our rules are welcome here. Those who do not abide by our laws have no right to be here. A person who breaks into your house without your permission does not deserve room, board and a job as a reward, even if the intruder may be much poorer than you. He has broken the law and deserves to be punished for what he has done. Our country’s boundaries and rules for entry and residency similarly define who is permitted to be here and how we choose to protect ourselves. We are a land of immigrants, but we are also a land of laws with certain core values. Those seeking to enter our country and remain here must learn to accommodate to our laws and values, not the other way around. That is the way prior generations of immigrants did it, including those who passed through Ellis Island. Why should the law be thrown aside now?
What we are witnessing is a frontal challenge to our nation’s sovereignty. Mexico’s Foreign Secretary wants to drag us before the United Nations for intending to build a fence on our side of the border with our money to keep out aliens who seek to enter our country illegally. They will probably get a sympathetic ear as some UN bureaucrats believe there should be no such thing as “illegal” immigrants in the first place. For the first time in our history, Americans are being asked to cede the right to decide how we define ourselves as a nation and protect our own borders to a globalist governance body. Will Pelosi lead her liberal loyalists as House Speaker to support the UN against America’s right to control its own borders? Do we really want to risk finding out?
It is high time, as Jim Gilchrist demanded in the press release ignored by the mainstream media, that Pelosi come clean under oath as to her personal stake in the illegal immigration issue before she can do even more damage as House Speaker.
Pelosi - Illegals - Sunkist - Her investments!
Pelosi's corrupt insider passing of bills that make her rich.
Check for yourself
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_nancy_pelosi_get_wage_breaks_and.html
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home House District includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa".
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "corrupt".
Check some more for yourself
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Conservative Activist Jumps Pelosi's Fence With Illegal Aliens to Prove a Vital Point
Conservative activist Laura Loomer, who is known for going undercover with James O'Keefe, took alleged illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in California. There, the group jumped the fence and Loomer demanded the group be let into the home. The group set up a pop up tent with the word "morality" on it and hung the pictures of those who were killed by illegal aliens, The Daily Caller reported.
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