Just weeks after Nancy Pelosi was banned from receiving communion in her home city of San Francisco because she supports abortion rights. This self-proclaimed practicing Catholic Democrat received Holy Communion while at St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday.
According to reports, others in attendance noted that Pelosi was seated in a VIP diplomatic section of the Church.
Pelosi attended Mass in the Vatican presided over by Pope Francis and received Holy Communion not from the pope himself but from another priest assisting at the Mass.
It was unclear whether the priest knew who Pelosi was or that she has been banned from receiving Communion in her home archdiocese of San Francisco for her aggressive promotion of abortion, which the Catholic Church considers to be murder.
WLT noted:
For the second time within a year, Pelosi has flown to the Vatican to take communion with Pope Francis himself.
Pope Francis previously praised the fact Roe v. Wade was overturned so it confused many people inside the Vatican circle why a hardcore abortion promoter like Pelosi would visit the Pope.
It’s one month after the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone barred Pelosi from receiving Communion until she repents her public pro-choice stance.
Pelosi, who knows a bit about leveraging power and appearances, responds to her local archbishop’s denying her communion over being pro-choice by going to see the Pope and getting communion in St Peter’s five days after the Dobbs decision
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 29, 2022
Pope Francis fueling a schism again, inviting Pelosi to receive Communion in St Peter’s, despite her pro-abortion attacks on SCOTUS justices last week. Even Bill Clinton wanted to make abortion rare. Pelosi’s “Women’s Health” bill would expand abortions. https://t.co/hGm9MF0pau
— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) June 29, 2022
More details of this story from The Associated Press report:
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights.
Pelosi attended the morning Mass marking the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, during which Francis bestowed the woolen pallium stole on newly consecrated archbishops. She was seated in a VIP diplomatic section of the basilica and received Communion along with the rest of the congregants, according to two people who witnessed the moment.
Pelosi’s home archbishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, has said he will no longer allow her to receive the sacrament in his archdiocese because of her support for abortion rights. Cordileone, a conservative, has said Pelosi must either repudiate her support for abortion or stop speaking publicly of her Catholic faith.
Pelosi has done neither. She called the recent Supreme Court ruling removing constitutional protections for abortion an “outrageous and heart-wrenching” decision that fulfils the Republican Party’s “dark and extreme goal of ripping away women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions.”
BREAKING: Pelosi receives Holy Communion at Mass presided over by Pope Francis https://t.co/1Rvwg4Y15Y
— Hector Sanchez (@hectorsanchez) June 29, 2022
Politico dropped some details:
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights.
Pelosi attended the morning Mass marking the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, during which Francis bestowed the woolen pallium stole on newly consecrated archbishops. She was seated in a VIP diplomatic section and received Communion along with the rest of the congregants, according to two people who witnessed the moment.
Pelosi’s home archbishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, has said he will no longer allow her to receive the sacrament in his archdiocese because of her support for abortion rights. Cordileone, a conservative, has said Pelosi must either repudiate her support for abortion or stop speaking publicly of her Catholic faith.
Pelosi has done neither. She called the recent Supreme Court ruling removing constitutional protections for abortion an “outrageous and heart-wrenching” decision that fulfils the Republican Party’s “dark and extreme goal of ripping away women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions.”
The pope emphasized that the Catholic Church stands firmly against abortion, but is not informed enough to comment on the problems of pro-abortion Catholic politicians in the U.S.
“For me, I don’t want to particularize […] the United States because I don’t know the details well, I give the principle … Be a pastor and the pastor knows what he has to do at all times, but as a shepherd. But if he comes out of this shepherding of the Church, immediately he becomes a politician.”
Sources: WLT, Associated Press, Politico
