"I'd deny Communion to Rudy"

"Says priest."

The priest of the Manhattan church where Rudy Giuliani had his second wedding says he would deny the presidential contender Holy Communion because of his public support for abortion.

"Because he publicly is against church teaching, the answer would be no" if Giuliani requested the sacrament, said Msgr. Thomas Modugno. . . .

Betty O'Connor, 76, of Florham Park, N.J., said abortion is too difficult for her to accept. "I love Giuliani, but that's what's holding me back on him," she said. "I don't like to see all those little babies die."

But Cornelius Stapleton, 60, a parishioner at Our Lady Queen Mary's Catholic Church in Forest Hills, Queens, was squarely behind the mayor.

"I don't support abortion but I'd vote for Giuliani tomorrow morning - twice or three times, if I could," he said.