Father....the problem is that NO ONE KNOWS if she had a TRUE CONFESSION before her HOLY COMMUNION.
Pelosi, and those like her, cannot just duck in and go to Confession. As long as she is publicly pro-abortion, any Confessions she does make are bad Confessions. No priest should absolve her, either.
In the case of someone like Pelosi, as long as she has not repented publicly, she has not repented, because the scandal she has given has been, by definition, public. The only way to end the scandal is to announce her repentance publicly.
Since Pelosi is accepting the Margaret Sanger Award this week, it is obvious she is still committed to promoting abortion.
By the way, this is why Ted Kennedy should not, IMHO, have had a Catholic funeral, because any faithful priest would have demanded, as a condition of absolution, a public statement of repentance for supporting abortion and other “non-negotiable” evils.
Simply because a mobster priest was hanging around, under canon law that qualified as a sign that Kennedy was a “practicing Catholic” when he died, so he had a Catholic funeral.
But it should have been without TV cameras, without celebrities, and with immediate family only. Cardinal O’Malley was not, however, going to miss a chance to slobber all over Obama, and mix with Domingo and other famous people.