Pelosi Hits Back At Archbishop Over Communion Ban

The Washington Post reports:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday questioned whether a San Francisco archbishop who said he would deny her Communion over abortion rights was using a double standard by allowing politicians who support the death penalty to receive the sacrament.

“I wonder about the death penalty, which I’m opposed to. So is the church, but they take no actions against people who may not share their view,” Pelosi said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

On Friday, the Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, the Catholic Church’s archbishop in San Francisco, said Pelosi would be denied Communion because of her vocal support for abortion rights, a stunning rebuke of one of the nation’s most senior practicing Catholic politicians.

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Cordileone appeared on JMG in June 2021 when he declared that he is anti-vax, calling COVID vaccines, “not really vaccines.”

Pope Francis has strongly urged Catholics to get vaccinated and has condemned anti-vax activism.

Cordileone is considered to be the “father” to California’s Proposition 8, which successfully repealed the legalization of same-sex marriage.

In September 2021, he called pro-choice members of the US House “satanists.”

In March 2021, Cordileone signed a statement from the Conference of Catholic Bishops which lobbied the federal government against a funding for a suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth.

In 2020, Cordileone performed an exorcism at the California site of a civil rights protest.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday questioned whether a San Francisco archbishop who said he would deny her Communion over abortion rights was using a double standard by allowing politicians who support the death penalty to receive the sacrament.https://t.co/Wg15R7xfZu

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