In a letter to Pelosi launched Friday afternoon, the archbishop wrote that he had knowledgeable the California Democrat that “will have to you no longer publically repudiate your advocacy for abortion ‘rights’ or else chorus from referring on your Catholic religion in public and receiving Holy Communion, I’d haven’t any selection however to make a declaration, in line with canon 915, that you’re not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
“As you haven’t publically repudiated your place on abortion, and proceed to refer on your Catholic religion in justifying your place and to obtain Holy Communion, that point has now come,” he endured. “Due to this fact, in mild of my accountability because the Archbishop of San Francisco to be ‘involved for all of the Christian trustworthy entrusted to [my] care’ (Code of Canon Legislation, can. 383, §1), by way of this communique I’m hereby notifying you that you’re not to offer your self for Holy Communion and, will have to you accomplish that, you don’t seem to be to be admitted to Holy Communion, till such time as you publically repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and obtain absolution of this grave sin within the sacrament of Penance.”
CNN has reached out to Pelosi’s place of work for remark.
Biden, who’s a lifelong religious Catholic, used to be denied Communion in 2019 at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his strengthen for abortion rights.
