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Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi has quietly turned to Rome to resolve her two-year-old dispute with the San Francisco archbishop over her receiving Holy Communion.
Pelosi for the first time has revealed that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone's order that she be banned from receiving Communion now is pending a final resolution at the Vatican. She did not say and it is unclear when she sought Vatican intervention.
"My understanding, as long as Rome has the case, it hasn't been resolved," Pelosi said in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter.
The fight stems from a May 2022 public letter from Cordileone banning then-Speaker Pelosi from receiving holy Communion within his archdiocese because of her work on abortion rights.
The extraordinary action, rarely used against a political leader, did not stop Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist. "I received Communion anyway," Pelosi said in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter on Dec. 6. "That's his problem, not mine."
On Tuesday evening, Dec. 10, Cordileone responded to the first report of Pelosi's Dec. 6 interview in NCR by issuing a 410-word statement inviting her to discuss the matter with him, an invitation he has previously extended publicly.
"This kind of dialogue can dispel misperceptions and melt away hostilities, and build new bonds of friendship," Cordileone said. "I therefore earnestly repeat once again my plea to Speaker Pelosi to allow this kind of dialogue to happen."
A spokesman said that Pelosi had no comment on Cordileone's Dec. 10 statement.
In the interview with NCR to discuss her recent memoir, The Art of Power, Pelosi said she has not raised the Communion issue directly with Pope Francis — though she met with him in June 2022.
Cordileone notified Pelosi in a public letter that stated: "You are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance."
Cordileone invoked an obscure provision of canon law unfamiliar to many everyday Catholics. Canon 915 states: "Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."
The former House speaker did not provide precise details on her request for a review and she did not respond to a request to speak with her canon lawyer. Her spokesmen declined to comment on a personal matter.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/nancy-pelosis-communion-ban-be-resolved-vatican
Motorists in a major European country paid over a billion dollars for alleged climate protection projects in China that are suspected of being fraudulent. German mineral oil companies are expected to meet legally prescribed climate targets, but they can achieve them by reducing CO2 emissions anywhere in their supply chain, including overseas. These “Upstream Emission Reduction” (UER) projects can be financed by German companies and count toward German climate balances. Multiple companies have been opting to finance projects in China, some of which were paid for by motorists through climate taxes at gas stations.
Germany’s Federal Environment Agency claims that 45 of the 66 UER projects in China were fraudulent, with Chinese projects unable to deliver what they had promised. The Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office has also been investigating at least 17 people connected with commercial fraud relating to climate scams, focusing on auditing companies that certified and validated the projects.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/12/12/motorists-in-this-european-country-paid-over-a-billion-dollars-in-china-climate-scams/
Sean “Diddy” Combs drugged and then raped three men at two Manhattan hotels and at his Hamptons estate as recently as 2022, according to a trio of new lawsuits filed in New York on Thursday.
One of the men recalled that during his drugged haze, once Combs was finished raping him, he handed him off to others from Bad Boy Records so they could take turns sexually assaulting him, according to his lawsuit.
The three lawsuits cite assaults in 2019 and 2020 — though the suit alleges they covered allegations through 2022.
Each lawsuit alleges that Combs served the anonymous victims alcoholic drinks spiked with drugs that made the men feel “ill” and lose consciousness, only to awake as Combs was raping them, court documents state.
One victim, who said he worked as an “errand boy” for Combs’ Bad Boy Records, alleged that the rapper told him to “stop” when he tried to resist after waking up during a February 2020 rape at the InterContinental New York Times Square hotel.
Combs allegedly also told him he was “almost done” at one point during the assault, the suit claims, and then said he would “look like an idiot” if the accuser ever tried to go to the police.
Another victim alleged that when he was drugged and raped in 2019 at an exclusive afterparty at the Park Hyatt hotel, he had a “brief moment of consciousness” when he saw “a man and a woman sitting on the bed recording the rape on a camera,” his suit claims.
When he awoke, the victim claimed, a mysterious man in the hotel room handed him roughly $2,500 in cash, telling him it was from Combs, who had already left.
During the summer of 2020, the third victim — a Florida man — was invited to a party at Combs’ Hamptons estate.
After flying to New York, the victim claims, associates from Bad Boy Records picked him up from his Manhattan hotel and drove him to East Hampton, where he later fell ill and lost consciousness after drinking at the party.
The suit states that “his drink had been drugged by Defendant Sean Combs.”
During the evening, the suit claims, Combs and associates from Bad Boy Records took turns raping him.
The next morning, he awoke “surrounded by Defendant Sean Combs’ associates from Bad Boy Records” and felt “severe pain in his anus.”
All three victims said they filed anonymously because they had been threatened by Combs previously.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/entertainment/3-men-accuse-diddy-of-drugging-and-raping-them-at-nyc-hotels/