{"id":600938,"date":"2021-07-23T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600938"},"modified":"2021-07-23T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:05:20","slug":"epitome-of-hypocrisy-archbishop-rebukes-pelosi-for-calling-herself-a-devout-catholic-in-defense-of-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/epitome-of-hypocrisy-archbishop-rebukes-pelosi-for-calling-herself-a-devout-catholic-in-defense-of-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Epitome Of Hypocrisy\u2019: Archbishop Rebukes Pelosi For Calling Herself A \u2018Devout Catholic\u2019 In Defense Of Abortion"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fepitome-of-hypocrisy-archbishop-rebukes-pelosi-for-calling-herself-a-devout-catholic-in-defense-of-abortion%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=600938&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-3-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday for calling herself a \u201cdevout Catholic\u201d in her defense of taxpayer funded abortion.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The speaker of the house said that though she was \u201cblessed\u201d to have five children \u201cas a devout Catholic,\u201d \u201cpoor women\u201d need taxpayer funded abortion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cLet me repeat,\u201d the archbishop said in a statement. \u201cNo one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday for calling herself a \u201cdevout Catholic\u201d in her defense of taxpayer funded abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me repeat,\u201d the San Francisco archbishop said in a statement. \u201cNo one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it.&nbsp; The right to life is a fundamental \u2014 the most fundamental \u2014 human right, and Catholics do not oppose fundamental human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cordileone said using \u201cthe smokescreen of abortion as an issue of health and fairness to poor women is the epitome of hypocrisy: what about the health of the baby being killed? What about giving poor women <i>real&nbsp;choice,<\/i> so they are supported in choosing life? This would give them fairness and equality to women of means, who can afford to bring a child into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cordileone said that it is only the \u201cpeople of faith\u201d who run crisis pregnancy centers \u201cwho provide poor women life-giving alternatives to having their babies killed in their wombs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot be prouder of my fellow Catholics who are so prominent in providing this vital service,\u201d he continued. \u201cTo them I say: you are the ones worthy to call yourselves \u2018devout Catholics!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop\u2019s rebuke comes as a response to Pelosi\u2019s Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/22\/abortion-catholic-church-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-roe-v-wade\/\">remarks on taxpayer funded abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an issue of health of many women in America, especially those in lower income situations, and different states, and it is something that has been a priority for many of us a long time,\u201d Pelosi said, before echoing a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/02\/media-biden-devout-catholic-liberal-ideology\/\">popular media description<\/a> of President Joe Biden\u2019s faith. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/catholic-church-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED: Pelosi\u2019s Archbishop: Unwavering Pro-Abortion Catholics Must Be Denied Communion)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family, five children in six years almost to the day,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not up to me to dictate that that\u2019s what other people should and it is an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cordileone <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-catholic-communion-biden\/\">told the DCNF in May<\/a> that he has had \u201cconversations\u201d with Pelosi about abstaining from receiving Holy Communion at mass as a pro-abortion Catholic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/joe-biden-vatican-catholic-church\/\">(RELATED: ANALYSIS: How Legacy Media Misrepresents Catholicism To Defend Biden)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pelosi&#039;s Archbishop Explains: Can Catholics Support Abortion?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZU9K0eZ7A4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we are dealing with public figures and public examples of cooperation in moral evil, this correction can also take the public form of exclusion from the reception of Holy Communion,\u201d Cordileone wrote in his document,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfarchdiocese.org\/documents\/2021\/5\/Pastoral_Letter_LetterSize_0501.pdf\">Before I Formed You In The Womb, I Knew You<\/a>. \u201cWhen other avenues are exhausted, the only recourse a pastor has left is the public medicine of temporary exclusion from the Lord\u2019s Table. This is a bitter medicine, but the gravity of the evil of abortion can sometimes warrant it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"piano-newsletter\" class=\"piano-newsletter\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>\u201cI have had such conversations with Speaker Pelosi, she knows that I stand by Church teaching, and I know she\u2019s respectful enough not to do anything so provocative,\u201d the archbishop said in May.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation,<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday for calling herself a \u201cdevout Catholic\u201d in her defense of taxpayer funded abortion.\u00a0 The speaker of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600938","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\/600938","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600938\/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=600938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}