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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on a Catholic saint today to help her and her pro-abortion colleague pass a Senate health care bill that contains massive abortion funding. Not only did Pelosi upset pro-life Catholics in so doing, but she got the date wrong concerning the saint she mentioned.
"Today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, particularly important to Italian-Americans," Pelosi said.
"It's a day where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America, and that's exactly what our health-care bill will do," she added.
Washington Examiner writer David Freddoso noticed Pelosi's flub.
"Speaker Pelosi should check her calendar again, because the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker is on May 1. Today is simply the feast or Solemnity of Saint Joseph," he writes.
"Either way, Joseph is also the patron saint of fathers and of happiness at the time of one's death. He would not consider the killing of unborn babies to be health care, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have appreciated working hard all day only to see the fruits of his labor taken through taxes to subsidize abortions," he added.
Catholic Families for America director Dr. Kevin Roberts, responded to
Pelosi's comments.
"Does the speaker not know that St. Joseph is the patron of families? How far does her apostasy go?" he told LifeNews.com.
