San Francisco archbishop bars Pelosi from receiving Communion over abortion stance

May 22, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    78% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    80% Negative

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"Therefore, universal Church law provides that such persons 'are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.'The letter marked an escalation between the Catholic Church, which claims abortion to be a moral evil in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Democrats who have claimed the church has not been able to determine when life truly begins."
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-30% Liberal
"Pelosi said in March that her stance on abortion is not religious but about the freedom of women to make their own decisions on when to have a child."
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-36% Liberal
"Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said that because of her stance on abortion and recent calls to protect access to abortion at the federal level, Pelosi should not present herself to a priest for Communion at Mass, nor will any priest during Mass give her Communion."
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-42% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : "Therefore, universal Church law provides that such persons 'are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.'"The letter marked an escalation between the Catholic Church, which claims abortion to be a "moral evil" in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Democrats who have claimed the church has not been able to determine when life truly begins.
32% : Pelosi said in March that her stance on abortion is not religious but about the freedom of women to make their own decisions on when to have a child.
29% : Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said that because of her stance on abortion and recent calls to protect access to abortion at the federal level, Pelosi should not present herself to a priest for Communion at Mass, nor will any priest during Mass give her Communion.
28% : Cordileone said he has attempted to reach out to Pelosi in the past to talk about her stance on abortion, but his letters and contact have gone unanswered.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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