San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone informed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) in a recent letter that she is no longer eligible to receive communion in the Archdiocese of San Francisco due to her support for abortion.
Cordileone sent a letter to Pelosi on May 19 informing her of the decision, which he said does not apply to other archdioceses, the Catholic News Agency first reported.
Cordileone announced the decision in two separate letters, one to Catholics in general and the other to priests.
“After numerous attempts to speak with her to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating….I have determined that the point has come in which I must make a public declaration that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion unless and until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion ‘rights’ and confess and receive absolution for her cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of Penance,” Cordileone wrote to the Catholic public.
In his letter to priests, Cordileone wrote that he was not “weaponizing the Eucharist” but simply implementing church teaching.
“I have been very clear all along, in both my words and my actions, that my motive is pastoral, not political,” Cordileone wrote.
Pelosi has previously invoked her Catholic faith when speaking about abortion rights.
“As a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family,” Pelosi said at a press conference in July 2021. “But it's not up to me to dictate that's what other people should do and it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.”
Cordileone, meanwhile, previously stated that pro-abortion Catholics “should not come forward to receive Holy Communion,” in a letter in May 2021.
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