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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wields the gavel Dec. 18, 2019, after the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of two counts of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump. In the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, the lawmakers approved one charge against Trump of abuse of power and one charge of obstruction of Congress. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
Dec. 22, 2019
Susan Brown
San Carlos
I feel distressed by the criticism of Nancy Pelosi by a letter writer in this week’s (Dec. 19) Catholic San Francisco ("Faithful witness is everyone's job"). I feel especially concerned about the sentence that ends “how dare she admit that she is a Catholic?”
How dare any of us judge another’s worthiness within the Catholic family? It seems obvious that Speaker Pelosi’s politics must rankle this writer. But I think she does follow the teaching of the Catholic Church at least as well as the letter writer, who sounds like one of those men about to stone the adulterous woman until Our Lord said “let the one without sin cast the first stone.”
Speaker Pelosi represented our church eloquently when she responded to the president,who had accused her of hating him, by saying: “As a Catholic, I do not hate anyone and I pray for the president and his family.”
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