Frankly, in my view, it was about time, a long time ago.
And, frankly, this shouldn't stop here. Joe Biden, President of the United States, should receive such a letter from his Bishop as well, whomever that is.
Ever since the candidacy of John F. Kennedy, American Catholics have endured the public spectacle of increasingly bad and immoral positions being taken by Catholic politicians and, frankly, have accommodated themselves to them to the point where there are now quite a few who imagine that they can hold all sorts of positions clearly condemned by the Church.
And more heartening yet, as this occurs, a lot of Bishops around the country, including a second one where Pelosi maintains a second home, have followed suit and stated they will honor the Archbishops decision.
Of course, there is a notable exception, the Archbishop of Washington has not followed and Congressman Pelosi received communion in that jurisdiction over last weekend, before launching criticism back at her home Archdiocese. Indeed, the Archdiocese in Washington accidentally released an internal statement that it was ignoring press requests for comments.
Pelosi, after receiving communion in D.C., basically attacked the church on all of its traditional positions on nature and marriage.
As a politician, you can take any position on anything you want. But as a human, if your views aren't informed by your metaphysics, no matter how inconvenient, you really stand for nothing at all.
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