Background: Abp. Wuerl responds to Pelosi's non-apology

After a bit of background clarification, it appears that Washington DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl, when asked by Bob Cusack of The Hill, has responded to Pelosi's non-apology which she issued yesterday through her spokesman.

The initial version of the report from The Hill left it unclear whether Abp. Wuerl was responding to Pelosi's first comments aired on Meet the Press (8/24), or her follow-up statement issued through the spokesman (8/26). The current version of the story claims Abp. Wuerl has in fact responded to both Pelosi's 8/24 and 8/26 statements.

The quoted second response from Abp. Wuerl, in its immediate context:

The public feud over abortion between the Speaker of the House and the archbishop of Washington intensified Tuesday as Rep. Nancy Pelosi responded to his recent criticism and the archbishop fired another salvo at the California Democrat.

The latest development came Tuesday evening, when Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl issued a statement to The Hill that brushed aside Pelosi’s explanation of her comments about conception on Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press.”

... Wuerl swiftly denounced Pelosi’s statement, saying, “As the Catechism and early Church documents make clear, abortion is always an evil. That is an unchanging teaching. The question on when the soul enters the body was a philosophical question that grew out of a lack of scientific data at the time of St. Augustine. We have the data today which shows the embryo is human. There no longer is any discussion of whether the unborn is human and so the philosophical discussion of St. Augustine’s time is not relevant today.” (The Hill)