‘Every Sunday for me it’s hard,” former speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi wrote in Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning, a 2008 collection edited by Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late Robert Kennedy. Frequently self-described as some variation of an “ardent practicing Catholic,” Pelosi’s difficulty was with the Eucharist.
The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life,” Vatican Council II said. The Catechism of the Catholic Church emphasizes: “The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.”
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