via America: The Jesuit Review (May 20, 2022)— “On May 20, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in a public statement that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a life-long Catholic, will be barred from Communion in her home diocese of San Francisco. Gloria Purvis, the host of America Media’s ‘The Gloria Purvis Podcast,’ spoke to the archbishop about his decision ….

GP: Is this in some way also to repair for the scandal — the public witness that she’s given on this? How does that work in this case?

AC: Scandal is an action that would lead others into error or into sin.

So the scandal here is that someone who is strongly advocating for something as evil as abortion and taking Communion creates confusion among people. And they can begin to think that it is acceptable for a Catholic to believe this.

And sometimes people ask me about that. One news reporter in a secular media, not in Catholic media, asked me if it is acceptable for a Catholic to be in favor of the so-called right to abortion. So it wasn’t clear in his mind it, but it should be clear in everyone’s mind.

So that’s how it leads people into a mistaken idea that this is acceptable and then can actually lead them into doing the evil or condoning it ….

Complete transcript of this interview can be read at “Archbishop Cordileone on barring Nancy Pelosi from Communion: ‘I cannot in my conscience allow the situation to continue.’”

Additionally, full video can be viewed on YouTube at “Full Interview: Archbishop Cordileone declares Nancy Pelosi cannot receive Communion” (May 20, 2022), with over 127,000 views as of this posting (37:59 minutes).