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Date: May 20, 2022 at 16:33:48
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Pelosi Barred by Catholic Church From Receiving Communion Over Abortio |
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May 20, 2022 Updated: May 20, 2022 biggersmaller Print
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been
barred by the Catholic Church from receiving Holy
Communion over her support of abortion, which the
Catholic Church strongly opposes.
The decision was announced by San Francisco Archbishop
Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, who serves as archbishop
for Pelosi’s home city.
“After numerous attempts to speak with Speaker Pelosi
to help her understand the grave evil she is
perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, [and] the
danger to her own soul she is risking, I have
determined that she is not to be admitted to Holy
Communion,” Cordileone summarized in a Twitter post
attached to a letter announcing the decision.
“There can be no more extreme example of … cultural
depravity than when direct attacks on human life are
enshrined in a nation’s law, celebrated by society, and
even paid for by the government,” Cordileone wrote in
the opening to the letter, published to the diocese
website. “This is why Pope Francis, as much as any pope
in living memory, has repeatedly and vividly affirmed
the Church’s clear and constant teaching that abortion
is a grave moral evil.”
“As the Archbishop of San Francisco, I am bound to be
‘concerned for all the Christian faithful entrusted to
[my] care,'” Cordileone continued.
“This most serious duty can sometimes become
unpleasant, especially when Catholics in public life
explicitly promote practices that involve the direct
taking of innocent human life, which is what abortion
does,” he wrote. “I have struggled with this issue in
my own conscience for many years now, especially with
regard to the Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives and member of our Archdiocese, Nancy
Pelosi.”
“I have received letters from very many of you over the
years expressing distress over the scandal being caused
by such Catholics in public life who promote such
grievously evil practices as abortion,” he continued.
“I have responded that conversion is always better than
exclusion, and before any such action can be taken it
must be preceded by sincere and diligent efforts at
dialogue and persuasion.
“Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s position on abortion
has become only more extreme over the years, especially
in the last few months.
“Just earlier this month she once again, as she has
many times before, explicitly cited her Catholic faith
while justifying abortion as a ‘choice,’ this time
setting herself in direct opposition to Pope Francis:
‘The very idea that they would be telling women the
size, timing or whatever of their family, the personal
nature of this is so appalling, and I say that as a
devout Catholic’; ‘They say to me, “Nancy Pelosi thinks
she knows more about having babies than the Pope.’ Yes
I do. Are you stupid?’
“After numerous attempts to speak with her to help her
understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the
scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul
she is risking, I have determined that the point has
come in which I must make a public declaration that she
is not to be admitted to Holy Communion unless and
until she publicly repudiate her support for abortion
‘rights’ and confess and receive absolution for her
cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of Penance. I
have accordingly sent her a Notification to this
effect, which I have now made public.”
Cordileone added that he “take[s] no pleasure” in the
decision, saying that Pelosi’s “advocacy for the care
of the poor and vulnerable elicits my admiration … my
action here is purely pastoral, not political.”
In concluding the letter, Cordileone wrote: “May God
grant us the grace to be true advocates for the dignity
of human life, in every stage and condition of life,
and to accompany, support and love women who otherwise
would be alone and afraid at a most vulnerable time in
their lives.”
Cordileone’s action comes as the Supreme Court appears
poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973
decision that forced states to allow abortion through
the first trimester.
In the wake of a Politico article leaking the decision,
Democrat leadership, including Pelosi, began a push to
enshrine the right to an abortion in U.S. law.
The bill they proposed to achieve this, dubbed the
“Women’s Health Protection Act,” was too radical even
for some Democrats, and failed in the Senate over the
objections of every Republican member in addition to
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
The issue of pro-abortion Catholics in public life has
long been a headache for Catholic clergy, who have had
to balance the demands of remaining politically
independent while also upholding the rules of the
Catholic Church, which is outspokenly opposed to
abortion.
In 2019, a similar issue made headlines after then-
candidate Joe Biden was denied Holy Communion at a
Florence, South Carolina, Catholic Church over his
support for abortion.
Pelosi did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
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Date: May 20, 2022 at 18:50:03
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Pelosi Barred by Catholic Church From Receiving Communion Over... |
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Date: May 24, 2022 at 09:56:43
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Pelosi Barred by Catholic Church From Receiving Communion Over... |
URL: https://thehill.com/news/house/3499325-pelosi-why-doesnt-catholic-church-punish-death-penalty-supporters/ |
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you are such a hypocrit georg...
Pelosi: Why doesn’t Catholic Church punish death penalty supporters?
by Mike Lillis - 05/24/22 10:06 AM ET
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Nancy Pelosi
FILE – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, of California, speaks during a news conference on May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said Friday, May 20, 2022, that he would no longer allow Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday went after the Catholic Church for what she characterized as its hypocritical position when it comes to the politics of life and death.
Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, was recently barred by the archbishop of San Francisco from taking communion for her support of abortion rights, which the church considers to be homicide at all stages from conception to birth.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday morning, Pelosi wondered why the archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone, hasn’t applied the same ban to Catholics who support capital punishment.
“I wonder about the death penalty, which I am opposed to,” she said. “So is the church, but they take no action against people who may not share their view.”
The Speaker is no stranger to clashes with Cordileone, a staunch conservative who has long denounced Pelosi’s support for abortion rights, same-sex marriage and other positions favored by liberals. His political views stirred some controversy during the coronavirus pandemic after he revealed in December that he was not vaccinated for COVID-19 and falsely claimed that the inoculation shots “are not really vaccines.”
Cordileone’s feud with Pelosi escalated last week, when he barred her from receiving communion, a central sacrament of the Catholic faith, within his archdiocese. The decision runs counter to the advice of Pope Francis and the Vatican, which have warned against denying communion to abortion rights supporters — an idea that’s gained prominence since President Biden, another Catholic, took over the White House.
In explaining the decision to ignore the Vatican, Cordileone characterized Pelosi’s support for abortion rights as a “grave evil,” a church “scandal” and a “danger to her own soul.”
“I have determined that the point has come in which I must make a public declaration that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion unless and until she publicly repudiate her support for abortion ‘rights’ and confess and receive absolution for her cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of Penance,” Cordileone wrote.
“I assure you,” he added, “that my action here is purely pastoral, not political.”
Undeterred, Pelosi over the weekend took communion in Washington, Politico reported.
Pelosi, the nation’s first female Speaker, has a long history of supporting the reproductive freedoms of women, and her advocacy has grown only louder with the recent revelation that conservatives on the Supreme Court appear poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made the right to abortion constitutional.
A leaked draft of the court’s decision, published earlier this month by Politico, argues that the Constitution does not contain the privacy rights on which Roe was based.
Critics of that ruling, including Pelosi, have warned that it could ultimately lead to the toppling of similar court-established rights based on the same legal argument, including rights to gay marriage and access to certain forms of contraception — a warning the Speaker amplified on Tuesday.
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“What is important for women to know, and families to know, [is] that this is not just about terminating a pregnancy,” she said on MSNBC. “Some of these same people are against contraception, family planning, in vitro fertilization. It’s a blanket thing, and they use abortion as the frontman for it while they try to undo so much.”
With the Supreme Court expected to unveil its final decision at the end of June, Pelosi predicted the hot-button issue will energize voters on both sides of the debate. But because most Americans support at least some of the protections provided under Roe, she added, Democrats will likely benefit at the polls — if they can get their message out to voters.
“For public sentiment to weigh in, people have to know,” Pelosi said. “Women have to know how pervasive this is.”
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Date: May 25, 2022 at 10:24:53
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Pelosi Barred by Catholic Church From Receiving Communion Over... |
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hypocrite? what's that word mean?
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