An archbishop bars Pelosi from Communion over her support for abortion rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Cordileone, among the most outspoken of U.S. bishops, has also called to withhold Communion privileges from President Biden and other politicians who support the right to abortion.
42% : "I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you [publicly] repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance," he wrote in the letter to Pelosi.
40% : Following the leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion, which revealed a preliminary ruling to strike down constitutional protections for abortion, Pelosi invoked her Catholic faith to bolster her support for abortion rights.
34% : Salvatore Cordileone, the conservative archbishop, said he'd previously made his concerns known to Pelosi, D-Calif., in an April 7 letter after she promised to codify into federal law the right to abortion established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.
34% : After Texas passed a law banning abortions after six weeks last year, Pelosi vowed to codify the right to abortion.
23% : Cordileone said he'd addressed Pelosi the day prior in a separate letter about the consequences of citing her faith in justifying abortion and refusing to retract her stance on the issue.

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