Is it even right to ban someone with a different belief?
Despite her persistent support for abortion rights, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received Holy Communion during a Wednesday Mass at the Vatican.
On the occasion of the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, Pope Francis officiated the morning Mass. Several recently consecrated archbishops received the woolen pallium stolen from Pope Francis.
Two witnesses at the Mass told the Associated Press that Pelosi was sitting in a VIP diplomatic section where she participated in communion with the other congregants. Francis and Pelosi met on the same day.
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The Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, has previously forbidden Pelosi from receiving communion because of her stance on abortion. It was reported in May that Cordileone advised Pelosi not to attend Mass because she would be denied Communion by the priests if she did.
“I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance,” Cordileone wrote in the letter.
That’s what the Archbishop of New York was referring to when he told Pelosi that “if you do 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,” by canon 915, that you aren’t allowed into Holy Communion. A letter written by Cordileone in May stated that Pelosi had ignored these pleas.
In a historic decision, the Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, and Pelosi was quick to react.
“This is a slap in the face of women everywhere. It’s a slap in the face of women who want to use their discretion to decide whether or not to have children “Pelosi made the statement after the Supreme Court’s ruling was announced. ” Voters in November will have the opportunity to decide on women’s reproductive rights”.
The Catholic Church’s Catechism is unequivocal in its position on abortion, and states, ” “Since the first century, the Catholic Church has taught that all abortions, regardless of how they are obtained, are immoral. The principles of this teaching have not changed and will not change. To willfully abort a child, whether as a means to an aim or as an end in itself, would be a terrible violation of morality. Abortion is prohibited as is killing the embryo or causing the death of the infant.”
As a result, it criticizes any law that “deprives a particular group of people of the protection that civil laws ought to provide them.”
Churches are sacred places. Because God accepts everyone, regardless of their sins, we don’t have the right to ban so is judge others. Many people hold clergy in high regard, but even a man of God cannot be entitled to act in this manner, thus much less respect is due to you, Sir.
