By BARBARA SIMPSON
Nancy Pelosi may have given up the gavel as “House Speaker” — but she hasn’t relinquished what she sees as her duty to publicly “interpret” Catholicism.
Pelosi has long been a supporter of “a woman’s right to abortion.” She speaks openly about it and has never supported the teaching of the Church on the issue — her Church — the Roman Catholic Church. She claims to be a devout Catholic and openly brags that she has given birth to “five children in six years and one week.”
She recently spoke at an event at Georgetown University, a Jesuit-run facility. The program was sponsored by the school’s Center on Faith and Justice. During her presentation to the group, she raised the issue of her “disagreement” with her bishop — the archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone.
During her talk, she claimed that her political advocacy is “pro-life” — putting issues like homelessness and immigration on the same moral level as abortion.
She said, “I think I’m pro-life because I care about children and the rest.”
She continued, “I have a problem with my archbishop, well the archbishop of the city I represent, but I figure that’s his problem, not mine.”
Her public position on abortion caused a rift between her and the San Francisco archbishop who, last May, banned her from receiving Holy Communion in his archdiocese. He wrote her a letter saying that she must “repudiate her advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the Sacrament of Penance.”
Pelosi admits receiving the letter, but essentially, she has ignored it. It’s reported that she continued to receive the Sacrament in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., with the tacit approval of Wilton Cardinal Gregory.
On a later trip to Rome, she made certain there was press coverage showing that she received Communion in the Vatican.
Pelosi and Cordileone clashed in 2021 when there was proposed state (California) legislation on abortion. He said Pelosi “was championing pro-abortion legislation that amounts to ‘child sacrifice’ — what one would expect from a devout Satanist, not a devout Catholic.”
Despite the harsh words between them, Pelosi has not budged from her position, nor has the archbishop.
She implies that she is “more Catholic” than many Church leaders who criticize her. America Magazine quotes her as saying that “some bishops are ‘willing to abandon the bulk’ of Church teachings to focus too heavily on protecting unborn babies from abortion.” Nancy Pelosi is quoted as once saying late-term abortions are “sacred ground.”
Not only does Pelosi differ with the archbishop on abortion, she also accuses him of being anti “LGBTQ” — she says that “Right now, our challenge are trans kids.”
She holds firm to her belief that women have the ultimate right and free will to make the decisions concerning their health care which, according to her, includes abortion. Despite that, she continues to say that “all God’s children have their own dignity and worth, their own individuality, their own authenticity. And that’s a beautiful thing for us to embrace God’s creation.”
Unless of course, we don’t want them, then she approves of killing them in an abortion.”
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