Readers Write: Biden s Catholicism, Israel, daffodils An interfering, alienating move. Text size Copy shortlink:
According to a news service report, U.S. Catholic bishops will decide if they should tell President Joe Biden not to receive communion as long as he publicly advocates for abortion rights ( Bishops may urge Biden to halt communion, April 29). The bishops should remember the vision of the role of religion in government espoused by the only other Catholic U.S. president, John Kennedy: I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.