The conservative Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco said Friday (local time) that he would no longer allow US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights .

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said he sent Pelosi a letter April 7 expressing concern after he promised to codify the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion in law because of Texas law banning most abortions will take effect if the top court overturns Roe.

Cordileone also said Pelosi never responded.

Cordileone said he told Pelosi in the letter that she should either repudiate her support for abortion rights or stop speaking publicly about her Catholic faith and that if she didn’t, he wouldn’t have no choice but to declare that she was not authorized to receive communion. .

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“I hereby notify you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, if you do, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until you publicly reject your plea for legitimacy of abortion and that you confess and receive absolution for this grave sin in the Sacrament of Penance,” Cordileone’s letter says.

Cordileone said in a separate letter to church members on Friday that he asked six times to meet with Pelosi but his office either did not respond or told him she was busy.

“After many attempts to speak to her to help her understand the grave harm she is doing, the outrage she is causing and the danger she is risking to her own soul, I have determined that the time has come when I must make a public statement that she should not be admitted to Holy Communion,” Cordileone wrote.

Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond to emails and phone messages seeking comment.

Over the past year, Cordileone has been one of the most vocal U.S. bishops who have advocated denying Communion to President Joe Biden and other politicians who support abortion rights.

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However, each bishop has authority in his own diocese on this matter, and the Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, has asserted that Biden is welcome to receive the sacrament there.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops last November overwhelmingly approved a long-awaited communion document that stopped short of calling to deny the sacrament to politicians who support abortion rights, but offered justifications for individual bishops to do so.