House Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted the Catholic Church isn’t reprimanding lawmakers who support the death penalty.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded Tuesday to the announcement by the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco that she can no longer receive communion because of her stance on abortion access. She noted that the Catholic church has not denied communion to lawmakers who back the death penalty — which also violates the church’s Catechism.
“I wonder about death penalty, which I am opposed to”, Pelosi said in an interview on MSNBC Tuesday morning. “So is the church, but they take no action against people who may not share their view. So, we just have to be prayerful. We have to be respectful. I come from a largely pro-life Italian American Catholic family, so I respect people’s views about that. But I don’t respect us foisting it onto others.
