VATICAN CITY, June 30 ― Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives who is banned from communion in her home city of San Francisco because she supports abortion rights, met Pope Francis yesterday and received the sacrament from a priest at a papal Mass.

A witness said the speaker, a Catholic who is visiting Rome, received communion from a priest in a section of St. Peter's Basilica during a papal Mass on the feast of St. Peter and Paul. The pope does not give communion himself at such ceremonies.