Through the San Francisco archdiocese, the Catholic Church has banned church member and American politician Nancy Pelosi over her alleged support for abortion rights as the speaker in the US House of Representatives.
The conservative archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone wrote a letter announcing the ban from receiving the holy communion to the 82 year old California Democrat on Friday, reported CNN. Acording to the letter, Pelosi will retain the religious privilege on condition that she publicly changes her public office stance on abortion rights.
According to The Catholic Church canon law 915, Pelosi is accused of “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin”. The offence is penalized by a ban on a church member from receiving the holy communion, a Christian religious ritual commemorating the return of Jesus Christ.
This is not the first time that US Catholic Bishops have withdrawn church members’ privileges over their public support of abortion rights. Last year, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops voted on document that would permit individual bishops to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion rights.
Abortion rights is currently a raging political debate cross the United States. People think that it is morally wrong to kill the life inside the woman, but abortion rights activists argue for these reproductive rights taking into account the woman’s decisions over individual future and happiness.
