Pope says Catholic Legislators Must Protect Life in Meeting with US House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi
(18 Feb 09 - RV) Following the General Audience the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with
her entourage.
His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements
of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human
life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators,
jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation
with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting
human life at all stages of its development.