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How the papal-Pelosi scandal affects priests

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture

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When Nancy Pelosi recently traveled to Rome to meet with the Holy Father, she subsequently received Holy Communion at the hands of an anonymous priest at a papal Mass. Vatican authorities could not have missed the publicity stunt. Yet the Vatican silence was deafening.

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