{"id":1486751,"date":"2022-05-21T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486751"},"modified":"2022-05-21T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:00:31","slug":"pro-life-leader-abby-johnson-rips-pelosi-for-leading-catholics-astray-cheers-communion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-life-leader-abby-johnson-rips-pelosi-for-leading-catholics-astray-cheers-communion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life Leader Abby Johnson Rips Pelosi For Leading Catholics \u2018Astray,\u2019 Cheers Communion Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-life-leader-abby-johnson-rips-pelosi-for-leading-catholics-astray-cheers-communion-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1268598231.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Planned Parenthood executive-turned-pro-life advocate Abby Johnson, a Catholic, celebrated a letter from the\u00a0Archbishop of San Francisco that said pro-abortion Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is banned from receiving holy communion.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi has repeatedly publicly supported so-called abortion rights while maintaining that she\u2019s a devout Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not be more elated as a practicing Catholic that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has finally barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving the most Precious Body and Blood of Jesus in Holy Communion,\u201d Johnson posted to her Facebook on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s\u00a0Mary Margaret Olohan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nancy-pelosi-banned-from-receiving-communion-over-her-abortion-stances\">reported<\/a> Friday on the archbishop\u2019s letter to Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco \u2026 I am hereby notifying you that\u00a0you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy 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,\u201d Cordileone said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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,\u201d the archbishop continued. \u201cPope 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 \u2018<em>grave and clear obligation to oppose<\/em>\u2019 any law that attacks human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said Pelosi receiving communion \u201chas been an ongoing scandal for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cWho knows how many Catholics she had led astray by proclaiming her \u2018devout faith\u2019 while advocating for the destruction of innocent life through abortion,\u201d the pro-life advocate wrote. \u201cThis is our most sacred sacrament as Catholics and to receive it, one must be free of all mortal sin, including the public promotion of abortion, which Speaker Pelosi has been on the forefront of during her many years as a public figure in government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t about judging someone\u2019s soul or intentions,\u201d Johnson emphasized. \u201cIt is about holding fast to the truth of our Catholic faith and the role of all bishops as shepherds of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cAbortion is a grave matter and Nancy Pelosi has been on the wrong side of this debate for years, leading who knows how many Catholics astray,\u201d she added. \u201cIt is my ardent hope and prayer that President Biden\u2019s archbishop follows the lead of Archbishop Cordileone and forbids him from receiving the Holy Eucharist as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Johnson started working for Planned Parenthood under the impression that she would be helping young women, she has previously discussed. Then she learned that abortion was vital to the corporation\u2019s bottom line, and their main concern.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The mother of seven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-former-planned-parenthood-exec-abby-johnson-details-gruesome-truth-about-abortion-at-rnc\">recalled<\/a> in 2020 that she was asked to assist a physician in an ultrasound-guided abortion. Johnson said she witnessed an \u201cunborn baby desperate to move away from the suction\u201d as the\u00a0doctor callously joked, \u201cBeam me up, Scotty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe last thing I saw was a spine twirling around in the mother\u2019s womb until succumbing to the force of the suction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Johnson would leave Planned Parenthood to become one of the leading pro-life advocates in the movement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">In a memoir titled \u201cUnplanned,\u201d the 41-year-old detailed her long journey to pro-life fighter. She\u2019s also founded a ministry for abortion workers walking away from the industry called \u201cAnd Then There Were None\u201d (ATTWN), and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>ProLove Ministries, set up as a \u201csister organization\u201d to ATTWN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Planned Parenthood executive-turned-pro-life advocate Abby Johnson, a Catholic, celebrated a letter from the\u00a0Archbishop of San Francisco that said pro-abortion Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is banned from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1486770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}