{"id":1742677,"date":"2022-11-17T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742677"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:47:51","slug":"bishop-who-denied-pelosi-communion-said-biden-brings-about-pain-and-death-elected-leader-of-pro-life-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bishop-who-denied-pelosi-communion-said-biden-brings-about-pain-and-death-elected-leader-of-pro-life-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Who Denied Pelosi Communion, Said Biden \u2018Brings About Pain And Death,\u2019 Elected Leader Of Pro-Life Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fbishop-who-denied-pelosi-communion-said-biden-brings-about-pain-and-death-elected-leader-of-pro-life-committee%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=1742677&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--><p>The Catholic bishops of America chose their new leader of their pro-life committee on Wednesday, and not only was he the first U.S. bishop to publish a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/248727\/christian-response-to-transgender-conflicts-needs-charity-and-clarity-arlington-diocese-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catechetical letter<\/a>\u00a0discouraging gender \u201ctransitioning\u201d and using gendered pronouns that had nothing to do with biological sex, he also issued a ban on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi receiving Communion in his Arlington, Virginia, diocese.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Michael Burbidge was elected the leader of the pro-life committee 174-63 over Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Burbidge wrote last May that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/251305\/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-communion-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Communion ban<\/a> on Pelosi issued by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in Pelosi\u2019s home of San Francisco was his guidance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlingtondiocese.org\/bishop\/walk-humbly-podcast\/the-walk-humbly-podcast---episode-93\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserting,<\/a> \u201cHe is her bishop and as that bishop the direction and guidance he provides is not limited to just a geographical area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cordileone <a href=\"https:\/\/sfarchdiocese.org\/letter-to-the-faithful-on-the-notification-sent-to-speaker-nancy-pelosi\/?mc_cid=cc54d9e84e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had written<\/a> on May 2022, \u201cAfter numerous attempts to speak with her to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that the point has come in which I must make a public declaration that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion unless and until she publicly repudiate her support for abortion \u2018rights\u2019 and confess and receive absolution for her cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of Penance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Cordileone issued his ban on Pelosi receiving Communion, she defied it, receiving Communion at Holy Trinity in Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Burbidge condemned President Joe Biden\u2019s stated desire to codify a national right to abortion. \u201cThe role of Congress is to pass laws that serve the common good \u2014 and yet this priority of the president only brings about pain and death,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/252673\/arlington-bishop-condemns-biden-s-abortion-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBishop Burbidge has been outspoken in his commitment to making pro-life issues a centerpiece of the activities in the Arlington Diocese and the Commonwealth of Virginia,\u201d Olivia Gans Turner, president of Virginia Society for Human Life, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/252832\/bishops-elect-burbidge-pro-life-chair-other-votes-signal-no-dramatic-policy-shifts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a> (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been exciting to see him expand pro-life efforts in Northern Virginia. Pro-lifers of every faith and no faith congratulate him,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe USCCB has made a good selection for this important position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA joyful and energetic leader for life,\u201d Jeff Caruso, executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference, told CAN. \u201cHis dedication to evangelizing the dignity of every life and working for the protection and care of unborn children, their mothers, and their families resonates with clarity and conviction in the Diocese of Arlington, in Virginia, and well beyond. I was excited to learn that he has been elected to chair the USCCB\u2019s pro-life committee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic bishops of America chose their new leader of their pro-life committee on Wednesday, and not only was he the first U.S. bishop to publish a\u00a0catechetical letter\u00a0discouraging gender \u201ctransitioning\u201d and using gendered pronouns that had nothing to do with biological sex, he also issued a ban on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi receiving Communion in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1742680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742677","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}