{"id":723168,"date":"2021-09-06T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=723168"},"modified":"2021-09-06T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:35:23","slug":"archbishop-slams-catholics-biden-pelosi-for-condemning-texas-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archbishop-slams-catholics-biden-pelosi-for-condemning-texas-abortion-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Slams Catholics Biden, Pelosi For Condemning Texas Abortion Law"},"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\">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%2Farchbishop-slams-catholics-biden-pelosi-for-condemning-texas-abortion-law%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=723168&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"47.984536082474\">\n<p>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone emphasized Sunday that Catholics have a duty to challenge pro-abortion politicians like President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Late Wednesday night, the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/21a24_8759.pdf#page=7\">ruled 5-4<\/a> to deny abortion providers\u2019 requests to block Texas\u2019 new law banning abortion after 6 weeks. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/03\/biden-abortion-life-conception\/\">Biden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/nancy-pelosi-abortion-texas-vigilante-bounty\/\">Pelosi<\/a> issued statements condemning the Supreme Court ruling and the Texas law and promising to take action to reverse the pro-life legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis summer, we provoked an uproar by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2021\/06\/14\/biden-catholic-president-usscb-bishops-abortion-communion\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\">discussing<\/a> whether public officials who support abortion should receive the sacrament of the Eucharist,\u201d Cordileone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/09\/05\/our-duty-challenge-catholic-politicians-who-support-abortion-rights\/\">wrote in a Washington Post op-ed<\/a>. \u201cWe were accused of inappropriately injecting religion into politics, of butting in where we didn\u2019t belong.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/jen-psaki-dismisses-male-reporters-question-on-catholicism-and-abortion-i-know-you-have-never-faced-those-choices-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED: Psaki Dismisses Male Reporter\u2019s Abortion Question On Biden\u2019s Catholicism: \u2018I Know You\u2019ve Never Faced Those Choices\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see matters differently,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen considering what duties Catholic bishops have with respect to prominent laymen in public life who openly oppose church teachings on abortion, I look to this country\u2019s last great human rights movement \u2014 still within my living memory \u2014 for inspiration on how we should respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cordileone cited the example of former New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1964\/11\/09\/archives\/a-rchbishop-joseph-rummel-dies-new-orleans-foe-of-segregation.html\">admitted<\/a> black students to seminary, ordered an end to segregation throughout the archdiocese of New Orleans and the removal of \u201ccolored\u201d signs from churches, closed a church for its refusal to accept a black priest, and excommunicated multiple people who supported segregation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRummel did not \u2018stay in his lane,&#8217;\u201d Cordileone wrote. \u201cUnlike several other bishops throughout this country\u2019s history, he did not prioritize keeping parishioners and the public happy above advancing racial justice. Instead, he began a long, patient campaign of moral suasion to change the opinions of pro-segregation White Catholics.\u201d&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/press-secretary-jen-psaki-devout-catholic-abortion-mexico-city-hyde\/\">(RELATED: Press Sec Psaki Dodges Question On Biden Abortion Policy By Saying \u2018He\u2019s A Devout Catholic\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7276513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7276513\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7276513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1300523403-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7276513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\">\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\" readability=\"16.525641025641\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" readability=\"28.190799396682\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cWas that wrong,\u201d the archbishop asked, referencing Rummel\u2019s excommunication of the segregationists. \u201cWas that weaponizing the Eucharist? No. Rummel recognized that prominent, high-profile public advocacy for racism was scandalous: It violated core Catholic teachings and basic principles of justice, and also led others to sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Cordileone wrote that abortion \u201ckills a unique, irreplaceable human being\u201d and that anyone who advocates, funds or presents abortion as a \u201clegitimate choice participates in a great moral evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\" readability=\"9\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" readability=\"13\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cYou cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings. The answer to crisis pregnancies is not violence but love, for both mother and child,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is hardly inappropriate for a pastor to say. If anything, Catholic political leaders\u2019 response to the situation in Texas highlights the need for us to say it all the louder.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">The archbishop <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-catholic-communion-biden\/\">told the Daily Caller News Foundation<\/a> in May that he has previously spoke with Pelosi about abstaining from receiving Holy Communion at Mass as a pro-abortion Catholic.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\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.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><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><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\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<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone emphasized Sunday that Catholics have a duty to challenge pro-abortion politicians like President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.Late Wednesday &#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-723168","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\/723168","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=723168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723168\/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=723168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}