Archbishop Salvatore Cordiglione was one of the most anti-abortion and anti-gay prelates in the history of the Catholic Church. He championed the right to life and opposed same-sex marriage and abortion.
00:00:00.000They're celebrating this blatant anti-Catholic bigotry and anti-Christian because they're not only mocking nuns, they're blaspheming our Lord, they're blaspheming our Lady.
00:00:09.780This is a blatant attack on all true Christian believers. They're mocking and blaspheming what we hold sacred. And that's now celebrated in our culture.
00:00:18.820Hey, my friends, have I got something great for you. Now, you might say Archbishop Salvatore Cordiglione needs no introduction, but in fact, he does.
00:00:33.960Because you know what? I've been following the Archbishop since 2009, when he actually first became the Bishop of Oakland.
00:00:42.700He was then in charge of about 550,000 Catholics. And he, in his inauguration homily, was so very pro-life. It was amazing.
00:00:54.720He lamented that the home, the United States, to which his grandparents came from Sicily nearly 100 years before, had become less hospitable, especially to the unborn.
00:01:04.840In addition to his obvious, you know, push for the right to life, Bishop Cordiglione shared with Pope Benedict a love for music.
00:01:14.700He's a saxophone player, by the way, and also an appreciation for the traditional liturgy.
00:01:19.700You know that he presided over a solemn high mass in the extraordinary form for Thomas Aquinas College back in the day,
00:01:27.440and also offered a mass in the ordinary form, but in Latin, and facing the tabernacle.
00:01:34.920And so, just an amazing prelate we've been following at LifeSite for a very long time.
00:01:40.180He said in that inaugural homily, and I'll quote it for you, he said,
00:01:43.300It seems our nation has become a much less welcoming place, even sometimes downright inhospitable.
00:01:51.020Worse of all, our nation has become a land that shows itself all too often unwelcoming toward the most defenseless of our brothers and sisters,
00:01:59.980who are not even given a chance to be born, and so are eliminated from society even before they see the light of day.
00:02:07.380This inhospitality, he continued, this hostility, creates a tsunami of moral and physical violence,
00:02:15.900which leaves countless damaged and destroyed lives in its wake.
00:02:20.560Now, in 2012, he became the Archbishop of San Francisco.
00:02:26.480Now, you know, San Francisco is one of the most homosexual places on the planet.
00:02:32.520And yet, that didn't stop the Archbishop from speaking out against same-sex marriage,
00:02:38.760the truth of Christ on marriage and the family.
00:02:41.640He spoke at the March for Marriage in Washington, D.C. in that same year,
00:02:46.580and it was, he gave a widely circulated interview to USA Today at the time.
00:02:53.060And in that interview, he emphasized that marriage is ordered primarily toward the raising of children
00:02:59.260by their mother and father, the basic building block of civilized society.
00:06:32.640I don't know how anyone could think that something that's so obvious as a boy is a boy and needs to grow into being a man can be a question.
00:06:43.660Not only that, do you remember when, like, the whole church was in lockdown and it was so terrible for Catholics everywhere?
00:07:37.700And there's a canon law, 915, that talks about denying Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians.
00:07:44.420Well, to Catholics who don't practice the faith and obstinately so.
00:07:48.520And after trying for a decade to meet with Nancy Pelosi, to counsel her, to tell her that her stances are not aligned with the Catholic Church,
00:07:57.800he, as her bishop, rightfully so, denied her Holy Communion and told all the priests in his diocese to refuse giving her Holy Communion.
00:08:08.160Nancy Pelosi went from there, of course, to the Vatican.
00:08:10.880We're at a very public mass with the Pope present.
00:08:13.720She received Holy Communion nonetheless.
00:08:15.780We also had that day the release of a document from the Pope called Desiderio Desideravi,
00:08:23.020which seems to indicate, heretically, by the way, that the only thing needed for the reception of Holy Communion is faith.
00:08:29.500But, I wanted to talk to Archbishop Cordelione about all of what's going on in the U.S. today,
00:08:35.920because there is a great anti-Catholic persecution.
00:08:38.780I wanted to ask him also about what's happening with Nancy Pelosi and all of that,
00:08:44.060and if he regrets that decision because of all the pushback he received.