Pro-Abortion Pelosi Ignores Her Archbishop’s Ban, Receives Communion: Report

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to have defied her archbishop’s order not to receive Holy Communion in light of her pro-abortion stances and advocacy.

The California Democrat attended mass on Sunday at Holy Trinity in Georgetown where she received Holy Communion, Politico Playbook reported. Pool reports show that President Joe Biden often attends evening masses at the parish as well.

It is not immediately clear which priest at Holy Trinity gave Pelosi communion.

None of the Jesuit priests on staff at Holy Trinity, described as “a parish of the powerful,” responded to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.

The parish website advertises a June 15 “Pride Mass,” and highlights a video of a gay man, who says he is married to a man, though the Catholic Church teaches that marriage should only be between a man and a woman and that “under no circumstances” will the church approve homosexual acts.

The church’s pastor, the Reverend C. Kevin Gillespie, has previously said that he would give communion to Biden, the most pro-abortion president in United States history often described by his staff and the liberal media as a “devout Catholic.”

“Everyone is welcome,” Gillespie said of Biden in an interview with America Magazine, a liberal Catholic outlet. “He’s a man of faith, and I would give Communion to him like any other Catholic coming up for the Eucharist.”

“It’s really an encounter with God,” Gillespie separately told The Atlantic, saying that receiving communion is a “sacred and intimate moment” for pro-abortion Biden, a “gift that enhances his faith, and it energizes his witness.”

“We most certainly encourage him to improve his intimacy with God through the Eucharist,” Gillespie told the publication.

The Holy Trinity pastor, who formerly served as president of Saint Joseph’s University, associate provost of the Chicago-based Loyola University, and as an assistant professor in the Department of Pastoral Care and

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