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Pelosi barred from Holy Communion over abortion advocacy
The Pillar ^ | 05/20/22 | Staff

Posted on 05/20/2022 12:16:20 PM PDT by mgstarr

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is barred from receiving the Eucharist in the Archdiocese of San Francisco because of her efforts to codify federal protection for abortions, according to a May 20 statement from Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

“I must make a public declaration that [Pelosi] 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 wrote in a letter released Friday.

The archbishop’s move came as Pelosi and other Democratic politicians have amplified calls to federally protect or fund access to abortion, amid widespread expectation that the Supreme Court will soon overturn Roe v. Wade.

Pelosi, Speaker of the House since 2019, represents California’s 12th Congressional District, which sits entirely within the city of San Francisco. The Congresswoman is a Catholic, and has often cited her Catholic faith as a formative element of her political worldview.

“That is why I communicated my concerns to you via letter on April 7, 2022, and informed you there that, should you not publicly repudiate your advocacy for abortion ‘rights’ or else refrain from referring to your Catholic faith in public and receiving Holy Communion, I would have no choice but to make a declaration, in keeping with canon 915, that you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

“The time has now come,” Cordileone wrote.

“You are not to be admitted to Holy Communion until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of penance.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: abortion; california; nancypelosi; noeucharistfornancy; pelosiexcommunicated; romancatholism
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To: mgstarr

Bttt.

5.56mm


61 posted on 05/20/2022 2:18:13 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: mgstarr

How long before the good Archbishop gets reassigned to a different location?


62 posted on 05/20/2022 2:18:35 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: mgstarr

Missed an opportunity. Should have excommunicated until she takes a knee to the Church.


63 posted on 05/20/2022 2:22:48 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Reno89519

Agree, About Damn Time. She should be excommunicated too. Hell is expecting you Nanzi.


64 posted on 05/20/2022 2:42:28 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: mgstarr

Long overdue, but thank you to the Bishop. He is trying to save her soul! God Bless him.


65 posted on 05/20/2022 2:42:38 PM PDT by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: Paal Gulli

Hitler left the Church, no need to excommunicated him as he was already gone.

Saying any number of prayers does not help the person who is in a state of mortal sin. Mortal sin separates a person from God, severing the relationship between them. Excommunication is just an outward statement of the already-existing reality.

Notice that Archbishop Cordileone said she has to *publicly* repudiate her current stance before she can be re-admitted to the sacraments in his diocese.


66 posted on 05/20/2022 2:58:10 PM PDT by Chicory
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To: mgstarr

About 50 years late.


67 posted on 05/20/2022 2:58:20 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: mgstarr

Good.


68 posted on 05/20/2022 3:10:02 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Chicory

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69 posted on 05/20/2022 3:10:57 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Magnum44
Not that it will change anything, but Holy Cow! Some actually holding public officials accountable.

...or in this case, Unholy Cow! is more like it...

70 posted on 05/20/2022 3:29:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Fido969

“plenipotentiary” is someone with more-or-less limitless authority. Free-floating means that he’s not only authoritative within particular boundaries.


71 posted on 05/20/2022 4:04:03 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: mgstarr

Long overdo, for Joe Biden too.


72 posted on 05/20/2022 5:06:57 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Yardstick

Durbin, Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, February 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Thomas Paprocki announced last week that Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who lives in his diocese, is not to be admitted to Holy Communion until he repents of his public abortion advocacy.

The catalyst for this announcement was the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have made most abortions after 20 weeks illegal (the bill had an exception for babies conceived in rape and incest).

“Fourteen Catholic senators voted against the bill that would have prohibited abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization, including Sen. Richard Durbin, whose residence is in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois,” said Paprocki.

“I agree completely with His Eminence, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, who called the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act ‘appalling,’” he said.


73 posted on 05/20/2022 5:48:25 PM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: Yardstick

Durbin, Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, February 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Thomas Paprocki announced last week that Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who lives in his diocese, is not to be admitted to Holy Communion until he repents of his public abortion advocacy.

The catalyst for this announcement was the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have made most abortions after 20 weeks illegal (the bill had an exception for babies conceived in rape and incest).

“Fourteen Catholic senators voted against the bill that would have prohibited abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization, including Sen. Richard Durbin, whose residence is in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois,” said Paprocki.

“I agree completely with His Eminence, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, who called the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act ‘appalling,’” he said.


74 posted on 05/20/2022 5:48:25 PM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: mgstarr

I hope she will make a good confession to a priest and the voters.


75 posted on 05/20/2022 5:51:12 PM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: mgstarr

I hope she will make a good confession to a priest and the voters.


76 posted on 05/20/2022 5:51:12 PM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: ADSUM

It’s kind of hard for a congenital liar to make a good confession.


77 posted on 05/20/2022 8:04:22 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: miserare

I understand, but all is possible with God’s help.

She would have a conscience and choose to be sorry, but it would be good for her soul and could have a significant affect on others and the world of politics.

We can always pray that she will do God’s will.


78 posted on 05/21/2022 12:01:09 AM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: miserare
To purposely delay repentence to continue sinning based on the belief that God will forgive is presumption, a very bad sin in itself.

Ted Kennedy tried that type of maneuver with Pope Benedict and I don't think a response to Ted's letter issued.

79 posted on 05/21/2022 4:52:36 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: HamiltonJay

I’ll bet she doesn’t in the diocese of SF! That doesn’t prevent some other bishop from allowing it, although I don’t see it happening.


80 posted on 05/21/2022 11:26:07 AM PDT by allwrong57
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