Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl

This is interesting twist on the Church’s politics from both Amy and Rob: (NOTE: The speaker is her daughter, Alexandra)

During Nancy Pelosi’s speaker celebrations this month, as the Pelosi clan drove through the streets of Washington and Baltimore together, some protesters held up signs that read, “Pelosi Preys on Children” — a reference to the speaker’s pro-choice stand, which contradicts church doctrine.

“ My mother, throughout her entire life, has been faithful to the church, even though the church has not been that faithful to her because of her politics. And I think that takes a lot of perseverance,” she says. “And still, people protest her right to go to her own church.”

Um, wow. This is really spin at its worst, because it makes no sense. She is not, and cannot befaithful to the Church if she doesn’t follow Church teachings!! Hello! This is the most basic tenet of any religion. If you don’t follow what it believes, then you aren’t being faithful. She is rabidly pro-choice. Rabidly. We all know that. That’s totally against Catholic doctrine. To have the temerity to say that the church hasn’t been faithful to her is just a statement that is beyond ridiculous.

How she cannot be denied communion in D.C. is just beyond me.

I love the movie Shrek, and I especially love the “Hallelujah” song that is sung near the end, when it looks like Shrek and Fiona are parted for good. But I never knew the lyrics.
Well thanks to Anchoress, I have finally found the lyrics to that song. And there’s a lot more to them than I originally thought (emphases mine):

I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah A Samson and Delilah reference?

Hallelujah

Baby I’ve been here before, I know this room
I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I’ve seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah love in the physical relationship–TOB stuff, maybe? Or at least it could be construed that way.

Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above, all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who out drew you
And it’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Wow, I mean, look at some of that. We’ve got King David, Samson and Delilah, the “holy dove” moving when the lovers were together. Whew! Pop culture can, occasionally, surprise us–in a good way.