The Pope, who already announced his support for the president of the United States in the meeting they held in Rome, will have to pronounce on the measure
The Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States has approved this Wednesday by majority a document with which the most conservative prelates could deny communion to the president, Joe Biden, as well as other elected public officials, after the support that some of them have given to abortion.
The text, approved by 222 votes in favor, eight against and three abstentions, first needs the approval of the Vatican, before it is put into practice and affects any government official elected at the polls, says CNN .
The document, made up of several articles among which there is one that describes the meaning of communion and who can receive it, leaves the decision of whether or not to offer this sacrament to the bishops and archbishops, rather than to impose a mandatory policy at the national level. .
Before the vote took place, the Archbishop of Kansas City, Joseph Naumann, one of the main architects of the document, has indicated that it is the responsibility of the bishops “to take care of the souls of politicians”, who, although they are recognized Given the difficulties they face, Church leaders need not “fear” to make them see how “serious” this question of abortion is.
In recent months, Biden and other leading figures such as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, have been questioned by the most conservative sectors of the American Catholic Church for their position in favor of abortion, even going so far as to consider the possibility that the head of the White House could be excommunicated.
Biden, who had the support of Pope Francis himself a weeks ago during their meeting at the Vatican, “is a good Catholic who must continue to receive communion,” he already knows that he has the open doors of the churches of the archdiocese of Washington, as his Archbishop Wilton Gregory said.
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