Originally published at National Catholic Register
EDITORIAL: In a recent interview, the former speaker of the House spoke about her strained relationship with her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
The days are drawing nigh on the end of the political careers of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, once the two most powerful Catholic politicians in the world.
Given the scandal they’ve caused over the years by repeatedly distorting and openly defying some of the fundamental principles of their common faith, one might say the days can’t draw nigh soon enough.
If cafeteria Catholicism were a real denomination, Biden and Pelosi would already be on a path to canonization. The highly selective catechesis they promulgate anytime they’re asked about their faith often bears a hazy resemblance to actual Catholicism, but it’s rarely the genuine article.
The latest contribution to the duo’s “greatest misses” album came courtesy of Pelosi, who in a recent interview spoke about her strained relationship with her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
For decades now, the now-former speaker of the House has obstinately persisted in her ardent support of abortion, in defiance of the Church’s clear teaching against it. In doing so, not only is Pelosi complicit in the sanctioning of
