Pope discovers the intellectual vapidity of Nancy Pelosi

Pope Benedict XVI met today with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Benedict's intellectual level is far above Pelosi's that it is hard to imagine that Pelosi was able to engage the pontiff in anything resembling intelligent conversation. I liken it to trying to communicate with a dog.

I suspect Benedict did most of the talking while Pelosi just stood there with that dumb stare and big smile.

The Vatican released the following statement concerning the meeting:

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 enjoins 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.

Pelosi's response:

"I was proud to show His Holiness a photograph of my family's papal visit in the 1950s, as well as a recent picture of our children and grandchildren," the California congresswoman, who has often expressed pride in her religious heritage, told The Associated Press.

So the pope spoke deeply and maturely about natural law and the dignity of human life and Pelosi showed him pictures of her family.

After the pope delivered his spiel, Pelosi probably just shook her head, pretended she understood and left the room.

No wonder the meeting was only 15 minutes long.

Pelosi is truly an embarrassment to Catholics and Italian-Americans. We are thinking of kicking her out of our club.