Please disable your Ad Blocker to better interact with this website.

News Clash

National Day Of Prayer: A Good Day To Talk About Pelosi’s Archbishop Denouncing Dems

Become a Clash Insider!

Big Tech is clamping down on conservative media big time. Don’t let Big Tech pre-chew your news. Sign up for our free email newsletter, and we’ll make sure to keep you in the loop.

Follow Doug on Parler @TheGilesWay.

Pelosi, when it suits her, dusts off her religious thinking so that she can use it to make a n expressly political point. Like the time she claimed to ‘pray’ for Trump.

(Perhaps, in her mind, she spelled that with an ‘e’.)

It was a lie that none of us really believed, and it stands as one more data point showing that her religious values are a distant second to her political objectives. They are a jacket she can wear when the weather suits her.

Scripture has a word for that. Idolatry.

And her own religious leaders are finally calling her out for it… and saying she and other Dems like her should be forbidden from participating in Communion in faithful Catholic Churches.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of California released a pastoral letter on Saturday that addressed whether Catholics who actively campaign on behalf of pro-choice policies should be allowed to receive communion.

The Catholic Church official directed his comments at figures like Pelosi, who, while being a practicing Catholic, is known for her strong support of legal abortion. —ChristianPost

This is what the letter said.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you” (Jer 1:5). A young Jeremiah heard the Lord speak these words to him over 2500 years ago. In these times in which we are living, the scourge of abortion ignores the reality that humans are made in the image of God, known and beloved by God. This pastoral letter addresses all Catholics, but especially Catholics in public life, calling for deep reflection on the evil of abortion and on the meaning of receiving Holy Communion, the Bread of Life.

There are four pivotal points to this letter:

The gravity of the evil of abortion: Science teaches that human life begins at conception. The ending of life through abortion deeply wounds the woman and destroys the foundation of a just society; it is a “pre-eminent priority” because it violates the right to life, the foundation of all other rights. As Catholics we must be a voice for the voiceless and the powerless; there is no one more defenseless than a child in the womb.

Cooperation in moral evil: Who bears culpability when an abortion takes place? It is never solely the mother’s act. Those who kill or assist in killing the child are directly involved in performing a seriously evil act. Someone who pressures or encourages the mother to have an abortion, who pays for it or provides financial assistance to organizations that provide abortions, or who supports candidates who advance pro-abortion legislation also cooperate by varying degrees in a grave moral evil.

The meaning of choosing to receive the Holy Eucharist: The Church has taught consistently for 2000 years that those who receive the Eucharist are publicly professing their Catholic faith and are seriously striving to live by the moral teachings of the Church. Those who reject the teaching of the Church on the sanctity of human life and those who do not seek to live in accordance with that teaching place themselves in contradiction to the communion of the Church, and so should not receive the sacrament of that communion, the Holy Eucharist. We all fall short in various ways, but there is a great difference between struggling to live according to the teachings of the Church and rejecting those teachings.

The responsibilities of Catholics in public life: From the three points above it follows that Catholics prominent in public life have a special responsibility to bear witness to the fullness of Church teaching. In addition to their own spiritual good there is also the danger of scandal: that is, by their false witness, other Catholics may come to doubt the Church’s teaching on abortion, the Holy Eucharist, or both. This is becoming increasingly challenging in our time.

We are all called to conversion, not only those Catholics who are prominent in public life. Let us understand what is at stake here and work together in building a culture of life. To those who need to hear this message clearly: Turn away from evil and return home to the fullness of your Catholic faith. We await you with open arms to welcome you back with joy.

We can all expect Nancy will spout meaningless religious niceties today, because it is expected of her. But we all know that her party is also the one that once booed God in its national Convention. And that it goes zero-for-ten in its views on the Ten Commandments.

But at least one religious leader is man enough to stand up and say that religious devotion cannot be divorced from the specific content of belief and behavior that is supposed to go with it.

If you want to live as an apostate or an athiest — go ahead. But don’t try to get all the trappings and respect that you hope to get from being thought a religiously devout person.

You have to choose.

The Archbishop nails it. She already HAS chosen.

Unless and until she rethinks her priorities — putting God at the top of her moral priority list, and living in the light of those priorities — she has no business participating in a sacrament that has both repentance and forgiveness of sin as its foundational premise.

If more Christian leaders held the line on what it meant to actually live in the light of our faith, and held one another to that standard, Christianity and the Culture would both be in far better shape today.

There’s still a long way still to go, but at least this is a start.

Check out ClashRadio for more wit and wisdom from ClashDaily’s Big Dawg. While you’re at it, here’s his latest book:

If Masculinity Is ‘Toxic’, Call Jesus Radioactive

Much of the Left loathes masculinity and they love to paint Jesus as a non-offensive bearded woman who endorses their agenda. This book blows that nonsense all to hell. From the stonking laptop of bestselling author, Doug Giles, comes a new book that focuses on Jesus’ overt masculine traits like no other books have heretofore. It’s informative, bold, hilarious, and scary. Giles has concluded, after many years of scouring the scripture that, If Masculinity Is ‘Toxic’, Call Jesus Radioactive. 

Wes Walker

Wes Walker is the author of "Blueprint For a Government that Doesn't Suck". He has been lighting up Clashdaily.com since its inception in July of 2012. Follow on twitter: @Republicanuck

Related Articles