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Despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a longtime champion of America’s wars that killed millions—along with her latest push sending tens of billions of dollars of lethal weapons to Ukraine to keep bloodying the killing fields—last week Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone refused to give Pelosi Communion because of her support of abortion.
Cordileone wrote an open letter to Catholics that was published on Friday and said he attempted to speak with Pelosi about her stance on abortion “and the grave evil she is perpetrating,” but she has not responded. He said Pelosi is risking her “own soul,” he said.
Cordileone wrote to Pelosi that she should not present herself for Holy Communion at Mass and will be denied by priests.
“A Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a manifestly grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others. Therefore, universal Church law provides that such persons ‘are not to be admitted to Holy Communion,'” he wrote in the letter.
The recent Supreme Court leak of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has created a tidal wave of support for abortion rights by Catholic politicians who consider themselves pro-choice.
Their common explanation is that they may be personally opposed to the procedure, but they think it’s best to keep their own religious beliefs out of politics. Pelosi joins fellow Catholic politicians like John Kerry and President Joe Biden who were once targets of the Catholic Church’s scorn.
In 2004, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who eventually became Pope Benedict XVI, wrote to U.S. bishops in favor of denying the Eucharist to politicians who support abortion rights.
The New Yorker reported that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., decided to “leave matters in the hands of local bishops, rather than address it as a group.”
The Journal pointed out that Pelosi talked about her own faith and her stance on abortion last year.
“As a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family…But it’s not up to me to dictate that that’s what other people should do. And it’s an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country,” she said.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has illustrated that these politicians are hypocrites because they are the same war hawks that support a long list of America’s deadly wars, yet there is no condemnation by the Catholic Church for their mass murder, nor have they been denied communion for their actions.