{"id":1488217,"date":"2022-05-23T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488217"},"modified":"2022-05-23T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:29:41","slug":"cnn-anchor-falsely-claims-pope-doesnt-support-pelosi-communion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-anchor-falsely-claims-pope-doesnt-support-pelosi-communion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Anchor Falsely Claims Pope Doesn\u2019t Support Pelosi 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\">20<\/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%2Fcnn-anchor-falsely-claims-pope-doesnt-support-pelosi-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=1488217&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\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240801148.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN anchor Jim Sciutto claimed on Friday that Pope Francis did not support barring pro-abortion politicians like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Communion in the Catholic Church \u2014 but that\u2019s not exactly what Pope Francis has said on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Sciutto shared an article from the San Francisco Chronicle announcing that Archbishop of San Francisco had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/nancy-pelosi-banned-from-receiving-communion-over-her-abortion-stances\/\">banned Pelosi from receiving Communion<\/a> due to her public advocacy for abortion access.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the article, Sciutto tweeted, \u201c12 years of Catholic school, altar boy, family deeply involved in our church, and never saw anyone banned from receiving communion. This is a deep fissure in the church \u2014 and a position Pope Francis himself doesn\u2019t support.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12 years of Catholic school, altar boy, family deeply involved in our church, and never saw anyone banned from receiving communion. This is a deep fissure in the church \u2013 and a position Pope Francis himself doesn\u2019t support. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8bdFMZ6NzX\">https:\/\/t.co\/8bdFMZ6NzX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimsciutto\/status\/1527757614280482819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Pope Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/vatican\/2021\/09\/pope-says-pro-choice-politicians-outside-community-of-church-but-urges-pastoral-response\">did not say<\/a> that he did not support individual pastors making the decision whether or not to deny access to the sacrament in specific cases \u2014 in fact, that\u2019s exactly what he told them they must do.<\/p>\n<p>He addressed the issue last September, telling journalists onboard the Papal plane that Catholics who supported abortion were \u201coutside the community\u201d and that the sacrament of Communion was for those who were \u201cin the community,\u201d or not estranged from it.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that pastors should make those decisions themselves \u2014 and was careful to note that it was not about condemnation but about caring for them as parishioners. \u201cAnd what should the pastor do? He shouldn\u2019t go around condemning. And he must also be a pastor with those who are excommunicated, and be so with God\u2019s style, which is closeness, compassion and tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His reasoning was that although some people might be temporarily estranged from the Church, they were still \u201cchildren of God and need our pastoral action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He reserved harsher terms for abortion, however, saying that it was \u201cmore than a problem: It\u2019s a homicide. No middle terms. Whomever does an abortion, kills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later compared seeking an abortion to \u201chiring a hitman\u201d to solve a problem, saying that the Church could not accept abortion because that would be akin to accepting \u201cdaily homicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Pelosi is certainly not the first Catholic politician to have her access to the sacrament restricted. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/not-a-happy-experience-pro-abortion-sen-dick-durbin-on-his-17-year-communion-ban\">has been barred<\/a> from Communion in his home diocese in Springfield, Illinois, for nearly two decades. In 2004, then then-Father Kevin Vann (now Bishop of Orange, California) informed Durbin that because of his pro-abortion stance, he would not be allowed to receive Communion in his home church.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin responded by accusing the Church of \u201cusing the Eucharist for political purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN anchor Jim Sciutto claimed on Friday that Pope Francis did not support barring pro-abortion politicians like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Communion in the Catholic Church \u2014 but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1488217","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\/1488217","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}