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Actually, if Trinity College claims to be a Catholic institution and if Trinity College is located within the Archdiocese of Washington, DC, then it most certainly IS within Wuerl's jurisdiction. John Paul II issued a specific document on the question of faculty members teaching theology needing to receive a "mandatum" from the ordinary (presiding bishop of the diocese in which the faculty member teaches. The Sisters of Notre Dame (either order of them) have NO INDEPENDENCE from the authority of the diocesan ordinary who has jurisdiction over them whatever it may please them to think. One order of Sisters of Notre Dame harbors some of the most willfully rebellious covens of feminazi/pro-abort nuns.

If Trinity is in Baltimore, then it is the job of William Cardinal Keeler, the ordinary of that archdiocese (we shall not hold our collective breath). Pelosi's pastor has very little to do with preventing her from publicly resisting the Church on abortion other than personally denying her the Eucharist at his parish. Her archbishop could publicly excommunicate her (and expect cooperation from other diocesan ordinaries, but that happens rather less often than one might hope and her archbishop (somewhat recently appointed) supported (or at least refused to oppose) "gay" "marriage" when it was up for a referendum vote in Utah when he was the diocesan ordinary in Salt Lake City.