Pope Francis Is Not a Fan of Conservative Effort to Deny Communion to Joe Biden [View all]

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Pope Francis Is Not a Fan of Conservative Effort to Deny Communion to Joe Biden

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Pope Francis has let it be known indirectly through his Vatican agents that he is not happy with the efforts of conservative U.S. Bishops to deny communion to pro-choice politicians, including, of course, the Catholic President Joe Biden. The pontiff has also more generally expressed opposition to the idea of “weaponizing the Eucharist” by granting or denying access to the sacrament as a way of compelling compliance with Church teachings, writing that the Body and Blood of Christ thought to be present in the wafer and wine are “not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”
Pope Francis wearing glasses talking on a cell phone: Pope Francis elevates the Host that some bishops would deny to Joe Biden. Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images © Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images Pope Francis elevates the Host that some bishops would deny to Joe Biden. Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images

But now he has for the first time personally addressed the question of denying communion to politicians like Biden:

“I have never refused the eucharist to anyone,” Francis said, though he added that he did not know of any instance when such a politician had come to him for communion. Bishops should be pastors, he said, not politicians….

“If we look at the history of the church, we will see that every time the bishops have not managed a problem as pastors, they have taken a political stance on a political problem,” he told reporters on his plane as he returned from a four-day trip to Slovakia and Hungary. He cited a history of atrocities committed in the name of the faith when the church became involved in politics.

So the Pope has fired a double-barreled volley at conservatives who want to “discipline” Biden and other “bad Catholics” in public life (like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who was threatened by bishops with denial of communion during his 2004 campaign). He’s telling them they are betraying their pastoral duties (while implicitly reminding them Biden has an actual pastor, his own parish priest and bishop, who haven’t joined their censorious clerical colleagues) and he’s accusing them of playing a dangerous game of politics that in the past has led to atrocities. These are strong words for those who by their own conservative doctrines must soberly obey him as the Vicar of Christ...........................................




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