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Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi Delivers Commencement Address at Catholic U of San Francisco

Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi Delivers Commencement Address at Catholic U of San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Saturday, May 19, Speaker of the House and intense pro-abortion advocate Nancy Pelosi delivered the commencement address at the Jesuit Catholic University of San Francisco.

Her address was delivered before the graduates in St. Ignatius Church. Pelosi opened by thanking USF President Rev. Stephen Privett, and then went on to quote Pope Paul VI who said, "If you want peace, work for justice.''

She also praised former Californian Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy at length, and touched on the issue of immigration, voicing her concerns about the immigration bill that is now before the Senate.

While Pelosi’s address was typical commencement fare, faithful Catholics consider her leading role at the Catholic University commencement to be a lamentable occurrence.

I'll say. Now, nobody can tell me that the leaders of this "Catholic" university was not aware of Ms. Pelosi's rabidly pro-abortion politics, notwithstanding her recent election makeover as the kindly Catholic Grandma. If the powers-that-be at JCUS cared a whit about Catholic morals, then surly one of them would have said "Gee Father, maybe Nancy ain't the best choice we could make."

But isn't that the real problem? We all know Nancy's views on abortion and everything else that the Socialists espouse. What is so troubling to me is that our supposedly moral and educational leaders are patting people on the back and telling them how great they are. Turning a blind eye to the situation would be a step up for these people.


With a history of support for Pelosi, University officials declined to comment.

Big surprise there!

Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco also received an honorary degree during the commencement ceremony for his “extraordinary sense of social justice, a passionate concern for peace, and a commitment to nonviolence to achieve ethical goals.”

CNS had asked Archbishop Niederauer to boycott the ceremony if the university failed to cancel plans to honor known abortion supporters. The archbishop has twice participated in honoring McCarthy. He joined with Catholic Charities CYO of San Francisco in honoring McCarthy in April, and in February joined Fr. Privett and others at the altar for McCarthy’s funeral Mass, according to a report in the California Catholic Daily.

It is a sad state of affairs when an archbishop cannot turn down an honorary degree in order to help save the lives of innocent children murdered daily. If you're going to sell-out, do it for something like money or power. Selling-out for an honorary degree is so trivial as to be insulting, but then again, what's one more sell-out? God help us.

Labels: Abortion, Benedict XVI, Catholic, Catholicism, Niederauer

posted by Norm Johnson @ 6:43 AM