Correction Over Communion Can Be Complicated, but is Also Crucial, by Daniel B. Gallagher

By Daniel B. Gallagher, Catholic World Report, December 17, 2024

Daniel B. Gallagher is a Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at Ralston College.

If Nancy Pelosi had heeded Benedict XVI’s warning in 2009 and reconciled herself to the Church, she never would have found herself in such an awkward position.

Following a brief meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on February 18th, 2009, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a statement expressing her joy for the opportunity to have met the pope and to have praised “the Church’s leadership in fighting poverty, hunger, and global warming.” Conspicuously absent from her list was the Church’s leadership in fighting abortion on demand, but that is hardly surprising given that Pelosi would later characterize the overturning of Roe v. Wade as “heart-wrenching,” “outrageous,” and even “cruel.”