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Archbishop of San Francisco bans pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi from communion
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13, 2012. / Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Shutterstock, Michelle Bauman/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 20, 2022 / 15:37 pm (CNA).Editor's note: Below is the full text of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone's notification to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, informing her that she should not receive Holy Communion in her home archdiocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Cordileone made the following letter publicly available on Friday, May 20.NOTIF...
The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular ARPANET. But BBSs were just as important—if not more.
The end of the second session of the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens of Belgium asked his fellow bishops: "Why are we even discussing the reality of the church when half of the church is not even represented here?" This provocative question, midway through a council that was then totally male, was a breakthrough that prodded council members to invite a few "token" women to the ensuing sessions. My own experience as one of the 15 women "auditors" originally invited to Vatican II gives me a particular vantage point from which to view the struggles of Roman Catholic women i...