WaPo: What are Catholic bishops planning to do with this “passionately” Catholic, pro-abortion president? HotAir

Deny him Communion? Bar the door at Joe Biden s parish? Or, perhaps, use our second Catholic president as a cautionary tale about failing to adhere to church teachings? The field might not be as wide open as one might think, although the Washington Post s estimable religion reporter Michelle Boorstein covers the options well enough:

Having a U.S. president who attends Mass week after week and talks about his faith is powerful to millions of American Catholics. But to millions of others, a Catholic U.S. president enacting one policy after another in favor of abortion access is a source of shame. This conflict is now headed directly at the U.S. church s leadership group, which plans a vote about it at its spring conference.

Catholic leaders, like their massive flock, are deeply divided about Biden, only the second U.S. president to come from the country s largest faith group. Since his election, the increasingly loud right wing of the church has made clear that Biden cannot continue to expand abortion rights and call himself Catholic and go unchallenged.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Wednesday that the group will have a June vote on the topic of Communion. Chieko Noguchi, a spokeswoman for the USCCB, said the vote will be about whether, at a later date, bishops should draft a document on the topic. She said because no document has yet been written, it would be premature to discuss its potential contents.

As Cardinal Yoda once said, Begun, the Eucharist Wars have.

via hotair.com

There is a certain kind of Catholic who thinks all the doctrines of the Catholic Church have to be destroyed because that’s what a good Catholic does. They love all religions except their own. I’ve known them, I’ve looked into their hearts, and I don’t like them. But, hey, that’s just me. Why don’t they join some other church? Because that’s not how they roll. It’s the Catholic Church they’re against, and they want to be against it from the inside. But I doubt Biden is smart enough to be one of these. He might be influenced by them though.