Former talker of the U.S. home of Representatives for the Democratic organization questions the order of Archbishop San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone of 2022 prohibiting her from receiving Holy Communion. The substance is yet to be settled by the Vatican.
The fact that Pelosi requested intervention at the Holy See informed the curious organization herself in a fresh interview with the National Catholic Reporter. The erstwhile announcer noted that the case had not yet been settled.
In May 2022 Archbishop Cordileone wrote a letter banning the then lower president The home of legislature accepting Holy Communion in its archdiocese, due to its commitment to promoting abortion.
As the National Catholic Reporter notes: "This extraordinary action, seldom applied against a political leader, did not halt Pelosi from accepting the Eucharist." Pelosi admitted that since then she has "already accepted Communion". As she added, this is the Archbishop's "problem," not hers.
Four days after the interview, the hierarch issued a message inviting the erstwhile announcer to meet to discuss the issue with him. "This kind of dialog can dispel misconceptions and melt hostility and build fresh bonds of friendship. That is why I reiterate my appeal to the president of Pelosi to agree to a conversation," the archbishop said.
In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Pelosi said that she did not discuss the issue of banning Holy Communion during a direct audience with Pope Francis in June 2022.
Archbishop Cordileone in his letter ordered Pelosi to halt receiving Holy Communion without prior public appeal of his support for legalizing abortion, confessing this severe sin, and receiving absolution in the Sacrament of Penance. The priest recalled canon 915 from the Code of Canon Law, which states: “For Holy Communion it is not essential to let excommunicated or interdicted, after the conviction or declaration of punishment, as well as another persons who endure with stubbornness in manifest grave sin.”
Rev. John P. Beal, prof. of Canon Law at Catholic University of America points out that a individual who has been banned from receiving Communion may ask for re-examination of a case or kind of appeal under canon law, called appeal, citing procedural issues specified as a deficiency of due process, or substantive issues specified as insufficient justification under canon 915 itself.’
Such ‘revocation’ may be lodged by the individual straight concerned. No 3rd parties can do that. The requesting organization must address the Bishop issuing the ruling in advance, and then appeal to the Holy See, in this case to the Dicastery for the Worship of God and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Pelosi, as you can see, is simply a ban on being very pregnant, but alternatively of canceling her support for the killing of conceived children, she expressed her irritation, asking how the Church, as a consequence of specified “exclusionary practices”, wants to make and attract young people.
The erstwhile announcer joined Holy Communion, among another things, during Mass presided over by Pope Francis in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican in June 2022.
“I was never denied. I was in Catholic churches all over the country and I was never rejected," she said in an interview dated December 6th.
Archbishop Cordileone initiated the “Ross and Rosary for Nancy” action in 2021, calling on Catholics to pray for her “return of heart”.
The erstwhile announcer admitted that the ban was severe for her. She said, “I am sad about it due to the fact that Communion is crucial to me, but I think it was a political movement on his part.” "My piety is not related to my archbishop," she added. She besides said that she would not uncover the names of priests in San Francisco who opposed her archbishop by granting her communion.
Pelosi is not the only democratic politician to whom the Catholic bishop in the United States refused communion. In 2018, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois confirmed that politician Senator Dick Durbin could not accept the Eucharist in his diocese due to his support for abortion legislation.
Source: ncronline.org
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