Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flaunted her disobedience to her bishop in an interview on her Catholicism, saying that she always feels “there’s an angel” on her shoulder despite her vehement support for abortion.
Pelosi spoke about her views on Catholicism and Pope Francis with the National Catholic Reporter, a left-leaning Catholic news source, in an interview published Tuesday.
The California Democrat has defended abortions of unborn babies for many years, though the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is “a crime against human life,” “constitutes a grave offense,” and that a person who obtains an abortion is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Pelosi has previously described herself as a “devout Catholic” in spite of her pro-abortion stances, drawing heavy criticism from Catholics who adhere to the teaching of the church.
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Pelosi criticized Catholic bishops for taking a stand against pro-abortion policies as she spoke with the National Catholic Reporter — and she said that she ignored the mandate of her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who told her in 2022 to stop receiving communion over her pro-abortion advocacy. The Catholic Church has always held certain conditions for the faithful to receive communion, including that a communicant be a faithful Catholic, living in accord with Catholic Church teaching, and in a “state of grace,” meaning that they had recently gone to confession.
“I received Communion anyway,” she told the National Catholic Reporter, adding of Cordileone. “That’s his problem, not mine.”
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