Roe v Roe confession

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CoffeeFanatic said:
She was not a reliable narrator. I’d take everything about that woman and all of her conflicting claims over the years with a huge grain of salt. It’s impossible to tell the lies from the truth as a result. She was troubled.
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Right. No one knows the actual truth and sadly, I think she was used as a pawn by everyone in her life. Looks like it’ll continue to that way in her death too.
 
I find it really suspicious that this is coming to light after she has died, and can’t defend herself. I’m not buying it.
 
To continue the “waht-ifs”…what if she was paid by pro-choice people to lie at the end of her life? If we are to believe that she was paid to lie about being pro-life, the opposite could be true.
 
The hole in that theory is that she was already on death’s door, so what would she want the money for?
 
redbetta said:
The hole in that theory is that she was already on death’s door, so what would she want the money for?
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Her family. Her dog? Her favorite hair stylist? Who knows? Any thing we say is just guessing, really. We have no clue what happened behind the scenes in any of that stuff. There is a lot of conflicting information out there.

We can ask why she didn’t come forward before she died and make a public renunciation? Why did she keep acting even when she was dying? From what I understand she was also given Last Rites before she passed and a Catholic funeral as well. Why go through all that trouble if the whole thing was an act?

No one close to her has come forward and said that she was acting either. Right now all we have is whatever is on that film. She isn’t going to be answering our questions.
 
Her pro-life stance may have started in 1995 as a “lie” in her association with this Flip Benham, Operation Rescue, and the $450,000 gift, but it most likely morphed into a real belief with her conversion to Catholicism and long association with her spiritual director, Fr. Pavone, who would have detected any insincerity.
 
She has been in regular contact with that priest for 22 years. Lying to someone once is easy. Keeping up a charade that stretches decades takes talent.
 
Lying to a priest for 2 decades would be difficult. Ordination seems to give most priests a powerful discernment of spirits charism. Fr. Pavone would have “sniffed out” insincerity very quickly.
 
Not really. Once you repeat a lie enough you often start to believe it.
 
Glennon_P said:
No idea why she would lie. Maybe her heirs needed it or pressured her into saying she had lied?
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I don’t believe you said that. Someone makes a deathbed confession and you accuse her of doing it for money? Seriously?
 
Canvas said:
From what I understand she was also given Last Rites before she passed and a Catholic funeral as well.
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One’s political stance on abortion does not preclude a person from Last Rites (remember, Confession is part of the Last Rites, and we cannot forget the Apostolic Pardon: The Handbook of Indulgences #28 states: “Priests who minister the sacraments to the Christian faithful who are in a life-and-death situation should not neglect to impart to them the apostolic blessing, with its attached indulgence. But if a priest cannot be present, holy mother Church lovingly grants such persons who are rightly disposed a plenary indulgence to be obtained in articulo mortis, at the approach of death, provided they regularly prayed in some way during their lifetime.)

 
TheLittleLady said:
One’s political stance on abortion does not preclude a person from Last Rites (remember, Confession is part of the Last Rites, and we cannot forget the Apostolic Pardon: The Handbook of Indulgences #28 states: “Priests who minister the sacraments to the Christian faithful who are in a life-and-death situation should not neglect to impart to them the apostolic blessing, with its attached indulgence. But if a priest cannot be present, holy mother Church lovingly grants such persons who are rightly disposed a plenary indulgence to be obtained in articulo mortis, at the approach of death, provided they regularly prayed in some way during their lifetime.)
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Might not have been. Wasn’t necessarily true in her heart that she’d changed to an anti-abortion position, but as you say, it may not have been an act at the time either.
 
Padres1969 said:
But as I said earlier, it does take away at least one “weapon” anti-abortionists had used for years against the pro-choice crowd which was that Norma had a change of heart which according to her she ultimately did not.
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I have long been opposed to either side of the abortion debate trying to score cheap political points off this woman.
 
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