Sen. Dick Durbin came to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s defenses on Tuesday, blasting the San Francisco Archdiocese for banning her from receiving communion — 18 years after the Illinois lawmaker was barred from receiving the sacrament in his home state. “It’s very personal to Speaker Pelosi as it is to me,” Durbin told Fox News’ Chad Pergram during a press conference, blasting Catholic bishops for making decisions that should be left to one’s own conscience. “The decision of the Catholic bishops and the treatment of pro-choice Catholics is different in dioceses by dioceses as a policy, they were poised to act for the entire nation, but then withdrew that decision,” the Democrat said, referring to a move to block all pro-choice Catholic politicians from recieving Communion that was considered last year.
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