“I support Archbishop Cordileone in his courageous pastoral outreach to a member of his flock,” Bishop James D. Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., said on Twitter.
In his letter, Archbishop Cordileone also noted that Ms. Pelosi has refused to speak with him since voting for the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill to ensure abortion access nationwide, in September.
Growing up in Baltimore, Ms. Pelosi regularly attended Mass with her family and went to Catholic school. She has said her mother had hoped she would become a nun.
Ms. Pelosi often refers to her faith in discussing her position in support of abortion rights.
“I come to this as a Catholic mother of five in six years and one week, and with the joy that all that meant to us,” she said on the House floor last year, speaking in support of the bill. “But with the recognition that it was my husband and I — our decision. It was our decision. And we should not, in this body or in that court, be making decisions for the women in America.”
She has criticized her church for making the issue of abortion a litmus test for membership.
“They would like to throw me out, but I’m not going, because I don’t want to make their day,” she said at an event in March.
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