US Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking Communion – ABC News

When U.S. Catholic bishops hold their next national meeting in June, they ll be deciding whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians: Don t receive Communion if you persist in public advocacy of abortion rights.

At issue is a document that will be prepared for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops by its Committee on Doctrine, with the aim of clarifying the church s stance on an issue that has repeatedly vexed the bishops in recent decades. It s taken on new urgency now, in the eyes of many bishops, because Biden, only the second Catholic president, is the first to hold that office while espousing clear-cut support for abortion rights.

Because President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us, said Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, who chairs the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities. It can create confusion. … How can he say he s a devout Catholic and he s doing these things that are contrary to the church s teaching?

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