The speaker of the house should not receive Holy communion because of her support for codifying the abortion law, according to the San Francisco archbishop.
The funeral service for former Rep. John Dingell will be held on February 14, 2019. In the pool is a photo of President Barack Obama.
Pelosi's support for abortion rights is at odds with Catholic doctrine, according to Cordileone.
The leader of the Catholic faith in Pelosi's district has publicly clashed over Pelosi's support for abortion rights many times since he was appointed as archbishop.
The decree only applies to churches.
A spokesman for Pelosi didn't respond to a request from Forbes.
A Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others.
Jamie Manson, President of Catholics for Choice, said that the archbishop is in a culture war and that Pelosi is a woman.
Pelosi supported an unsuccessful effort to codify abortion rights after a leaked opinion from the Supreme Court indicated it would overturn the right to an abortion. Conservative Catholics have long criticized Pelosi for her stance, while calls to deny communion to prominent Catholics in U.S. politics have grown recently.
The Vatican sent a letter to the U.S. bishops telling them not to make decisions about abortion that could be seen as political. It would be wrong to single out abortion as one of the grave matters of Catholic moral and social teaching that demand the fullest accountability on the part of Catholics.
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The Vatican does not agree with the stance taken by the U.S. bishops about denying communion to supporters of abortion rights.
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