Nancy Pelosi

The archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that he would not allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion.

He said Pelosi never responded. “After numerous attempts to speak with Speaker Pelosi to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, an the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion,” he tweeted. In an announcement, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said he sent Pelosi a letter April 7 expressing concerns after she vowed to codify the Supreme Court’s Row vs.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco ordered priests in the archdiocese to deny House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the sacrament of communion because of ...

Be a pastor, because he is a pastor also for the excommunicated." Pelosi said last month that the controversy over her support for abortion rights "really gets me burned up in case you didn't notice, because again I'm very Catholic, devout, practicing, all of that. "What must the pastor do?" Communion is an essential sacrament of Catholic practice. "However, this is simply application of Church teaching. Pelosi could still receive communion in a church outside San Francisco.

The edict from Salvatore J. Cordileone, the Catholic Church archbishop in San Francisco, represents an extraordinary rebuke of Pelosi's Roman Catholic ...

“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,” Pelosi told the Seattle Times editorial board that day. Around that time, he said, he also launched a prayer campaign, “Rose and Rosary for Nancy,” directed specifically at Pelosi. “For us, it was a complete and total blessing, which we enjoy every day of our lives,” Pelosi added. “They say to me, ‘Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the Pope.’ Yes I do. He did so, he said, after Pelosi invoked her religion in defending the right to abortion. “It was also part of our Catholic faith that we had responsibilities to each other.” “We ask Archbishop Cordileone and those who share his crusade to listen to Pope Francis’ call to encounter,” Manson said. Pelosi often refers to her own prayers and her religious responsibility to seek the greater good. Last September, Pope Francis said the decision about granting Communion to politicians who support abortion rights should be made from a pastoral point of view, not a political one. Democrats and abortion rights advocates have responded with alarm in recent weeks following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the right to abortion established in the landmark Roe v. Francis, however, reiterated that abortion is “murder.” Catholic archbishops have vast power within their diocese, and a reversal of Cordileone’s decision would require the intervention of the Vatican, which is unlikely.

Nancy Pelosi's Catholic archbishop bans her from receiving communion · “I have been very clear all along, in both my words and my actions, that my motive is ...

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who has repeatedly confronted the House speaker over her backing of abortion rights, said her stance was a “grave evil.”

“I come to this as a Catholic mother of five in six years and one week, and with the joy that all that meant to us,” she said on the House floor last year, speaking in support of the bill. And we should not, in this body or in that court, be making decisions for the women in America.” In a 2008 interview with C-SPAN, Ms. Pelosi described herself as a “regular communicant” and said that if she were ever denied communion, “that would be a severe blow to me.” Growing up in Baltimore, Ms. Pelosi regularly attended Mass with her family and went to Catholic school. The Vatican has warned against denying communion to politicians supportive of abortion rights. Wade? Roe v. The Catholic church explicitly opposes abortion, which it considers among the gravest sins. What is Roe v. “I support Archbishop Cordileone in his courageous pastoral outreach to a member of his flock,” Bishop James D. Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., said on Twitter. “No one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it,” he said in a statement at the time. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who has repeatedly confronted Ms. Pelosi over abortion, said in a letter on Friday that until Ms. Pelosi was willing to “publicly repudiate” her position defending the “legitimacy of abortion,” she would be banned from the sacrament, a central element of Catholic worship. “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,” Archbishop Cordileone said on Twitter on Friday.

Representative Henry Cuellar is the only anti-abortion Democrat left in the House of Representatives.

Cisneros had brought in $4.5 million as of May 4, compared to the congressman's fundraising haul of $3.1 million. Pelosi was also asked about Cuellar's vote against the the Women's Health Protection Act of 2021, which would have codified abortion rights into federal law. "I thought you were going to take it to choice or something," Pelosi said. She was asked about potential ethics concerns after Cuellar's home and campaign office were raided by the FBI in January. Following the leaked opinion, Cisneros called on the Democratic leadership to "withdraw their support of Henry Cuellar who is the last anti-choice Democrat in the House." Pelosi is backing Representative Henry Cuellar for the Democratic nomination in Texas' 28th congressional district, despite the fact he is the last anti-abortion Democrat in the House of Representatives.

The Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is banning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving one the most sacred Christian rites in her hometown over her ...

Cordileone said that Pelosi's stance on abortion has become more extreme over the years and he condemned her for citing her Catholic faith when justifying abortion as a woman's choice. In September, she introduced a bill to the House floor to preserve abortion access nationwide and counter the Texas law that prohibits terminating a pregnancy after six weeks in the state. Pelosi is a member of the archdiocese and a longtime vocal advocate for abortion rights, saying that her abortion rights position is in line with her Catholic beliefs.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said he sent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter expressing his concerns after she vowed to codify the ...

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Ultra conservative Salvatore Cordileone accuses pro-choice House speaker of failing to 'understand the grave evil she is perpetrating'

Cordileone has built his reputation on his vehement opposition to same-sex marriage. During that interview, Pelosi predicted the supreme court would also seek to outlaw contraception and same-sex marriage should Roe v Wade fall, which the House speaker has said would be “an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.” The missive hailed Pelosi for “her advocacy for the care of the poor and vulnerable”, said the move was apolitical, and called the longtime Democratic congresswoman a “sister in Christ”, but it also called for the House speaker to confess and repent.