Catholic Bishops Mull Communion Ban for Pro-Choice Politicians Like Joe Biden

Catholic Bishops Mull Communion Ban for Pro-Choice Politicians Like Joe Biden
Intelligencer
4/29/2021
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It seems a significant number of Catholic bishops want to pick a fight with the second Catholic president of the United States, reports the Associated Press:
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.
A document is being drafted by a committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops “clarifying” the church’s stance on what some conservatives have called “eucharistic coherence,” referring to a uniform rule denying communion to those who are publicly associated with promoting the “grave moral evil” of legalized abortion. If the policy statement is actually approved, it might have the effect of nationalizing a decision that has previously been left up to individual bishops and even individual parish priests, who mostly declined to deploy the extreme sanction of de facto excommunication no matter how strongly they felt about abortion.

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