Pelosi’s 1500-Year-Old Ecclesial Sound Bite: Bishop Vasa

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I will print this article out and read later. Biship Vasa is wonderful wonderful wonderful! I visit his diocese monthly and get “straight talk” theology from his priests.
 
"The spokesperson’s statement also implies that, as has often been posited by politicians of one stripe or another, because they hold and support properly Catholic views on the social issues of race, poverty, justice and peace that they should not be held accountable for their rejection of the Catholic teachings on the more direct life issues such as abortion, assisted suicide and embryonic stem cell research. "

Catholic politicians have said, with statistical backing, that abortion rates decline when these issues of justice are addressed. Also, on the other side of the political divide, people (republicans maybe?) generally have complained at the number of children who are born to those citizens who are dependant on government programs.
 
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"The spokesperson’s statement also implies that, as has often been posited by politicians of one stripe or another, because they hold and support properly Catholic views on the social issues of race, poverty, justice and peace that they should not be held accountable for their rejection of the Catholic teachings on the more direct life issues such as abortion, assisted suicide and embryonic stem cell research. "

Catholic politicians have said, with statistical backing, that abortion rates decline when these issues of justice are addressed. Also, on the other side of the political divide, people (republicans maybe?) generally have complained at the number of children who are born to those citizens who are dependant on government programs.
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This has to be sarcasm as I can’t believe anyone could really read this into the statement unless they were trying to “be like Nancy”.
 
I’m not sure why this is referred to as an ecclesial sound bite. Unless the broader topic of Augustine’s writing was the Church, or he was writing on behalf of the Church (as a Vatican prefect might do) rather than expressing his own personal musing or his instruction as an individual bishop, I think it would be more accurate to describe it as a theological sound bite.
 
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