House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat from California, can no longer receive communion due to her support of abortion rights, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Friday, per the San Francisco Chronicle.
In a public notification, Cordileone said he'd warned Pelosi in April that she must drop her support of abortion rights or cease referring to her faith to justify them, the Chronicle writes. Cordileone also said Pelosi declined to meet with him.
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