Courtesy of washingtontimes.com
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has no Catholic right to be granted Communion, said the leading cardinal of the highest court at the Vatican.
Mrs. Pelosi should be denied Communion until she changes her advocacy views on abortion, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke said, according to the Western Center for Journalism.
That’s canon law, not opinion, he said. Canon 915 states that Catholics who are stubbornly contrary “in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
And Cardinal Burke said Mrs. Pelosi fits the definition.
“Certainly this is a case when Canon 915 must be applied,” he said, the Western Center for Journalism
reported. “This is a person who obstinately, after repeated
admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of
procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic.”
The cardinal also said that Mrs. Pelosi is a perfect example of Catholics who separate their faith from day-to-day living.
“This
is a prime example of what Blessed John Paul II referred to as the
situation of Catholics who have divorced their faith from their public
life and therefore are not serving their brothers and sisters in the
way that they must — in safeguarding and promoting the life of the
innocent and defenseless unborn, in safeguarding and promoting the
integrity of marriage and the family,” he said.
The cardinal, an American, is the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome, Life News reported.
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