Whoopi Goldberg and the SF Examiner Editorial Board Lose Their Crap As Archbishop Cordileone Brings Down the Hammer on Nancy Pelosi

Friday, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone formally ordered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to not present herself for Communion until “such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance.”

By way of an explainer, this action has been the culmination of a decade of dialog between Archbishop Cordileone and Nancy Pelosi on the subject of her open huckstering for infanticide. Catholic clergy are very reticent to take action this extreme and with this visibility, but in this case, Archbishop Cordileone had to take action or be Nancy Pelosi’s bitch.

That is why I communicated my concerns to you via letter on April 7, 2022, and informed you there that, should you not publicly repudiate your advocacy for abortion “rights” or else refrain from referring to your Catholic faith in public and receiving Holy Communion, I would have no choice but to make a declaration, in keeping with canon 915, that you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.

This action amounts to the “excommunication” many of my Protestant friends are always demanding. Receiving the Eucharist is the central focus of Catholic sacramental life, and being forbidden to receive it is a grave matter. The issue is not abortion. It is scandal.

This fundamental moral truth has consequences for Catholics in how they live their lives, especially those entrusted with promoting and protecting the public good of society. Pope St. John Paul II was also quite consistent in upholding this constant teaching of the Church, and frequently reminded us that “those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a ‘grave and clear obligation to oppose’ any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them” (cf. Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life [November 24, 2002], n. 4, §1). A Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a manifestly grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others. Therefore, universal Church law provides that such persons “are not to be admitted to Holy Communion” (Code of Canon Law, can. 915).

With regard to the application of these principles to Catholics in political life, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote to the U.S. bishops in 2004 explaining the approach to be taken:

“… when a person‘s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist. When ‘these precautionary measures have not had their effect … ,’ and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, ‘the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.’”

Scandal is a term used within Catholicism for an action taken by a person that is sinful and which will lead others to believe that sinful behavior is permitted. For instance, if a prominent layperson in a parish is openly engaged in, say, adultery, if that person is permitted to receive Communion, it leads others to believe that the behavior is acceptable. Unfortunately, many pastors and bishops are gutless when confronted by in-your-face sin and just try to ignore it. At their judgment, they will have to answer for that. By Pelosi honking about her Catholic “faith” while fighting to expand abortion, other people, particularly Catholics, could be led to believe that the Church’s teaching on abortion is ambiguous (SPOILER ALERT: It isn’t).

If anything, Archbishop Cordileone has been too solicitous to Pelosi.

The reaction has been pretty much as expected. Whoopi Goldberg celebrated the occasion by beclowning herself.

https://youtu.be/Xmy-Qtl_tbA?t=10

The archbishop of San Francisco is calling for speaker Nancy Pelosi to be denied receiving Communion because of her pro-choice stance … this is not your job, dude. That is not up to you to make that decision.

Actually, it is his job. It is up to him to make that decision. The primary duty of the bishop is to act as shepherd for his flock and see to their spiritual health and salvation. If you are the tiniest bit Catholic, being told to refrain from receiving Communion until you had repented from your sins and received absolution for them is an act of mercy. Letting a sinner persist in sin and perhaps drag innocent people into sin with them is not an act of love; rather, it shows disinterest, if not outright contempt, for the eternal fate of the sinner.

She goes on to quote Pope Francis out of context when he says that Communion “is not the reward of saints, but is the bread of sinners.” Here he is not talking about brazen and unrepentant sinners who knowingly act against Church teaching. Given Pope Francis’s penchant for saying scary crap, this is something of a miracle itself.

The editorial board of the San Francisco Examiner seems to have literally crapped themselves.

It is Nancy Pelosi, not Archbishop Cordileone, who reflects the true spirit of Christian care in the City of St. Francis. For the Catholic Church to continue to thrive here, we need a leader who opens the church’s doors to all, not a small-minded man who locks out his political adversaries.

We appeal to Pope Francis to send a clear message that he, not Cordileone, is the leader of the faith. He can do this by relieving this insubordinate saboteur of his duties in San Francisco and putting an end to his political schemes.

Now more than ever, our nation needs Pelosi’s care and leadership, which are rooted in her deep faith. As such, The Examiner Editorial Board is proud to endorse her for another term in Congress.

While Archbishop Cordileone’s actions will have no impact on Nancy Pelosi–someone who has taken Communion for decades while in a state of mortal sin isn’t all that fearful of what happens after death–but it does draw a line that we can hope more bishops and more Protestant clergy will observe. It is important that politicians portraying themselves as members of a particular Church do not live in contradiction to that Church’s teachings.

As John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” I believe this to be true. Unless our clergy lives up to their responsibilities, our nation will only slide deeper into the secular morass that is already swallowing it up.

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