[Apologetics] Catholic Group Blasts Pelosi for Invoking St. Joseph on Pro-Abortion Bill

[Art Kelly]

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Catholic Group Blasts Pelosi for Invoking St. Joseph on Pro-Abortion
Bill

"I've seen much hypocrisy from Catholic elected officials during this
process, but Nancy Pelosi's invoking of St. Joseph, the patron of
families, to assist in the passage of the health care bill is utter
sacrilege," said Dr. Kevin Roberts, executive director of Catholic
Families for America. 

Contact: Dr. Kevin Roberts, Catholic Families for America
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WASHINGTON, March 19 /Christian Newswire
<blocked::http://www.christiannewswire.com/> / -- Responding to Speaker
of the House Nancy Pelosi's comment that St. Joseph would aid in the
passage of the health care bill, today the head of Catholic Families for
America <blocked::http://www.catholicfamiliesusa.org/> , one of the
largest groups of lay Catholics in the country, condemned Pelosi's
comments as "sacrilege."

"Does the speaker not know that St. Joseph is the patron of families?
How far does her apostasy go?" questioned Dr. Kevin Roberts, executive
director of the group.

Roberts mentioned that so many Catholic groups had been praying a Novena
to St. Joseph, which is a nine-day prayer for his intercession on behalf
of families, healthy marriages, and children. "How sick does Pelosi have
to be to associate St. Joseph with such a pro-abortion, anti-family
bill?" Roberts asked.

Catholic Families for America has seen its membership "explode" in
recent months because of the moral hypocrisy of Catholic elected
officials like Pelosi, Roberts said. "Though we hate for the country to
even come close to passing this bill," Roberts continued, "the one
silver lining is its galvanizing of Catholics on the issue of
representing Church teaching in an authentic way."

The group plans to endorse as many as 40 candidates for U.S. House and
U.S. Senate elections this fall.




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