Pelosi is half-right

The stimulus

The response

Actually NP has it half right. You must follow your conscience. It is your "right" as a child of God. But you have a simultaneous responsibility to form a "right" conscience. You are called to remain a child of God, of being in relationship with God, by listening to the Word of God.

And as a Catholic Christian, you have the gift of being able to discuss this formally with God through his servant, a priest, in a private ceremony called variously Confession or Reconciliation. I wonder of NP has done that. I suspect she has not.

The leader of the priests in her diocese is the bishop. I am quite sure that if she went and confessed to the bishop, she would find he has strong differences with her interpretation of her faith, of what it means to be a "practicing" or "practical" Catholic.

And as for "Benny", he is good at hitting all pitches, often out of the park.

Not only is she no Catherine of Siena, she is no Dorothy Day, who was as liberal as almost anyone. She cofounded the Catholic Worker movement.

She had a child out of wedlock. She refused to have an abortion when she became pregnant with her lover's child, to the point he left her.