Catholic News Agency reports that Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader and representative for San Francisco, announced her retirement from Congress effective 2027, concluding five decades in politics. The article notes Pelosi’s self-description as a “very Catholic” and “devout, practicing” believer while documenting her decades-long support for abortion and LGBT causes. It references Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s 2022 decree barring her from Holy Communion due to her public abortion advocacy, which remains Church teaching. The report observes Pelosi’s criticism of U.S. bishops for their opposition to gender ideology, alleging they promote “very negative, anti-LGBTQ stuff.”
Theological Incoherence of a Public Scandal
The article’s neutral framing of Pelosi’s “Catholic identity” constitutes grave intellectual dishonesty. Her uninterrupted 50-year political career systematized rebellion against divine law: supporting abortion—intrinsically evil (Pius XI, Casti Connubii)—and gender ideology condemned as contra naturam (Pius X, Pascendi). When Cordileone belatedly enforced Canon 855 (1917 Code)—“Those publicly unworthy are to be barred from the Eucharist”—he acted on principles obliterated by the post-conciliar sect’s false mercy. Yet the article treats this as mere disciplinary friction, not the spiritual triage demanded by Quas Primas: “Rulers must submit to Christ’s authority or forfeit legitimacy”.
Naturalism Disguised as Pastoral Care
Pelosi exemplifies the conciliar sect’s canonization of apostasy. Her claim to be “devout” while facilitating child murder mirrors the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation is merely man’s evolving religious consciousness” (Proposition 22). The article’s description of her receiving Vatican officials—including Pietro Parolin, architect of the China-Vatican betrayal—reveals the conciliar hierarchy’s complicity. By hosting such figures, the Vatican signals that political power supersedes doctrinal purity, violating Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error 39): “The State is the source of all rights.”
Omitting the Gravity of Heretical Communion
Nowhere does the article specify that Pelosi’s reception of “Communion” in invalid rites compounds her sacrileges. The Novus Ordo Missae—crafted by Freemason Annibale Bugnini—reduces the Sacrifice to a communal meal, rendering its “consecrations” doubtful at best. When conciliar “bishops” like Cordileone administer discipline, they do so within a structure that has abandoned extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Thus, Pelosi’s exclusion becomes theater—a nod to tradition while the sect’s very foundations deny the ex opere operato validity of sacraments.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
Pelosi’s career embodies the conciliar revolution’s rotten fruit: a baptized worldliness that treats abortion as legitimate “choice” rather than crimen nefandum. Her retirement changes nothing—the Democratic Party she helped shape remains committed to child sacrifice, with 72 million abortions since 1973. That Catholic News Agency reports this without condemning her eternal peril confirms its captivity to neo-modernist equivocation. As Quas Primas insists: “Nations rejecting Christ’s reign will crumble”—a prophecy fulfilled in America’s descent into moral chaos.
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Nancy Pelosi announces she will retire from Congress in 2027 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 06.11.2025