What a lot of people don’t understand about the ecclesiastical sentence of excommunication is that it’s a medicinal penalty intended to move the guilty party to repentance.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has invited US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to examine and repent of her sins by barring her from receiving Holy Communion.
… Cordileone has instructed Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi, an outspokenly pro-abortion Democrat, not to present herself for Holy Communion in his diocese.
“[Y]ou are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you [publicly] repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance,” Cordileone wrote to Pelosi …
It bears mentioning that Cordileone is only following Canon 915 and St. John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae. The former lays down the penalty of minor excommunication for those who persist in grave, manifest, public sin. The latter infallibly removes the “public and private position” loophole for pro-infanticide elected officials.
In a sane world that had an episcopate with the courage of their convictions, a bishop pointing out that an obstinate mortal sinner has placed herself outside of communion with the Church would not make the news.
But because we live in Clown World, where too many bishops have been derelict in their judicial duty, witches spent the weekend flipping out on Twitter.
Every. Single. Time.
Of course, His Excellency is to be commended for his paroxysm-inducing rebuke of a Death Cult high priestess. It’s the latest in a recent series of wins for normal people.
To God be the glory!
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