The Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, indicated this Friday that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, should not receive communion or attend the Eucharist due to the congresswoman's support for the right to abortion, according to Fox News reported.
"A Catholic legislator who supports induced abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a clearly serious sin that is the cause of a scandal scandal for others," he wrote to Pelosi in a letter that he himself has released.
"The universal law of the [Catholic] Church states that such persons 'should not be admitted to Holy Communion,'" it says in the letter.
Pelosi, on Capitol Hill on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Getty Images
Pelosi has declared herself to be a "devout Catholic," according to the Catholic News Agency.
In a 2008 interview she claimed that it would be "a hard blow" if she was denied communion because she is a regular attendee, she added, of her church rites.
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The president, Joe Biden, has also been questioned by the Catholic Church for this reason.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved in 2021 to draft a "teaching document" that could reprimand Catholic politicians who support this right, recognized in the US legal system. At that time Biden responded: "It is a matter private, and I don't think it's going to happen."
In 2019, when he was not president, he was denied communion at a South Carolina church for supporting abortion.
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