Pelosi Says Catholic Church Could Have Female Priests In Her Grandchildren's Lifetime

Former Speaker of nan House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday nan Catholic Church could person female priests successful her grandchildren's lifetime. 

"Maybe my grandkids'," Pelosi told Politico’s Jonathan Martin aft he asked her, "Do you deliberation we'll spot female priests successful your kids' lifetime?" successful a conversation Wednesday that was portion of Politico's "Securing Europe: NATO's Next Steps Event." 

Pelosi, who is Catholic and was denied Communion by San Francisco's archbishop complete her support for abortion rights, besides talked astir her position connected nan Church’s stance connected different hot-button issues.

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Former Speaker of nan House Nancy Pelosi said nan Catholic Church mightiness spot female priests successful her grandchildren's lifetime.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"That's 1 of nan debates they were having erstwhile we were complete there, nan domiciled of women successful nan church, attitudes to LGBTQ, issues that subordinate to divided Catholics, tin they person Communion and if they remarry, ohio my gosh, tin they still person Communion? Those kinds of day-to-day things that nan Church has not really afloat resolved," Pelosi said.

Pelosi' progressive views connected issues for illustration cheery authorities and abortion person placed her successful guidance to nan Church.

Her remarks came nan time before the College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost arsenic nan first American pope, who took nan sanction Leo XIV.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of nan United States appears connected nan pavilion of St. Peter's Basilica, astatine nan Vatican, May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

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Pelosi besides went connected to talk astir visiting nan precocious Pope Francis astatine nan Vatican. 

"I'm ‘excommunicated,’ but I did person Communion astatine nan Vatican erstwhile Pope Francis was correct location successful nan adjacent pew," Pelosi said. "That was a connection to my ain archbishop."

In May 2022, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said that Pelosi was barred from receiving Holy Communion owed to her support for abortion, and wrote a connection communicating nan news. 

The precocious Pope Francis met pinch then-U.S. Speaker of nan House Nancy Pelosi astatine nan Vatican connected October 9, 2021. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS

During a travel to nan Vatican successful June 2022, Pelosi received Communion during a wide that nan precocious Pope Francis presided over. 

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