WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday rejected a complaint from the Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco about COVID-related restrictions, saying he deserves to ‘follow science’ than advocate for more complete user rallies for mass and worship.
When asked about the recent editorial of Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone protesting the boundaries of giant public gatherings, Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, said it does not put people’s lives at risk.
“With all due respect to my archbishop, I think we stick to science in this,” Pelosi said.
The right of worship has a fierce touchstone in the debate over state and local regulations to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The bishop said that the rights of the faithful were “unjustly suppressed” through government. Across the country, several churches are proceeding to end the restrictions.
“We believe the government has the right to impose moderate rules of public aptitude,” he wrote in the Washington Post. “But when the government asserts its authority over the Church’s very right to worship, it crosses a line. “
Pelosi said he had recently attended face-to-face service in his hometown of San Francisco and had won communion, picking up the priest’s host, as allowed, rather than hitting her directly on the tongue. Joins online services.
“I go to church regularly,” he says.
The California Democrat said she had to register in advance to attend and discovered a dozen more people scattered when she arrived. “Very, very, very spaced, ” he said.
He wondered if the archbishop’s message was misunderstood: “I’m sure he must have meant whether it’s scientifically safe, that endangering people’s fitness if they need to move to church,” he said.
Pelosi noted that religion and science are at risk.
“People around here say to me, “You’re a user of faith, why do you do science?”He said.
“I say, I say that science is an answer to our prayers. It is a creation of God and an answer to our prayers. “