Sr. Catherine Pinkerton, an 86 year old nun who has worked as a lobbyist for the past 24 years, will be giving the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention tonight, as noted on the America site.
From the Deacon's Bench:
"I think you have a different perspective when you've lived some history," says Catherine Pinkerton, a member of the Cleveland-based religious order Congregation of St. Joseph who once served as principal of the West Side secondary school it founded, St. Joseph Academy.
Pinkerton says that she has never been an activist for either political party but that she admires Barack Obama's "vision of where we stand as a nation and where we stand among nations" and agreed to deliver the benediction at the request of his campaign.
For the past 24 years, Pinkerton has worked for Network, a national Catholic social-justice lobby in Washington, D.C., where she works to establish international trade and investment policies that benefit the United States as well as the developing world.
"We are standing at one of the critical moments of our history," says Pinkerton, who is still drafting the remarks she'll deliver in Denver on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
[image description: Sr. Catherine Pinkerton is shown. She is wearing glasses, has gray hair and wears a turquoise scarf with a blue suit - and a big smile.]
1 comment:
She admires Obama's vision of where we stand? That's interesting considering Michelle Obama is ashamed of her country and Barak has no use for our flag. But that aside, how can the sister--assuming she is a practicing Catholic--'admire the vision' of someone who opening favors partial birth abortion?
As to the 'vision of where we stand as a nation and where we stand among nations' I wonder if she is proud of our leadership in being the first country on the American continent to legalize abortion over 30 years ago... Now Mexico is following our 'leadership'.
God please save us from that kind of 'leadership'!
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