I see they arrived. Wonderful. Each of these 1000 roses represents one Catholic praying a rosary and fasting on Fridays for Speaker Nancy Pelosi through October. May the Blessed Mother touch her heart. Join me in this Rose and Rosary campaign. Sign up at https://t.co/MzVcPm9o87. pic.twitter.com/zb5GJ6K05u
— Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone (@ArchCordileone) October 1, 2021
This is not the first time that Archbishop Cordileone has spoken out against abortion, nor is it the first time that he has called on believers to take action against it. Days before the House passed the WHPA on Sept. 24, Cordileone condemned the bill, saying that it “is surely the type of legislation one would expect from a devout Satanist, not a devout Catholic.” He added, “I therefore ask all Catholics in our country immediately to pray and fast for members of Congress to do the right thing and keep this atrocity from being enacted in the law.”
After the Supreme Court decided not to block the new abortion law in Texas, Pelosi published a statement calling the decision “shameful” and said, “The Supreme Court’s cowardly, dark-of-night decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health is staggering.”
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Cordileone mentioned Pelosi’s reaction, as well as President Biden’s, in an opinion piece in which he said: “As a faith leader in the Catholic community, I find it especially disturbing that so many of the politicians on the wrong side of the preeminent human rights issue of our time are self-professed Catholics. This is a perennial challenge for bishops in the United States.”
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In his Sept. 29 comments, Cordileone said, “The reaction elicited by the passage of the Texas Heartbeat Bill shows how desperately our country, and many of our political leaders, need a conversion of heart to steer us away from the path to death and reclaim a culture of life.”
Earlier this year, Archbishop Cordileone said that Catholic politicians who support abortion should not be allowed to partake in communion, a subject that bishops in the U.S. have recently been debating with regard to President Biden.
