Similarly, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has repeatedly suggested he would deny Biden Communion, telling an opinion writer that if the president appeared before him at worship, he hoped Biden would not “create a scene by approaching me to receive Holy Communion.”
Meanwhile, prelates such as the Cardinal Wilton Gregory, head of the Archdiocese of Washington, told Religion News Service in December he would continue to offer Biden the Eucharist despite disagreements over abortion.
“I don’t want to go to the table with a gun on the table first,” Gregory said at the time.
The bishops are slated to produce a document on Communion next month at their fall conference in Baltimore, Maryland, although organizers have insisted it would not be narrowly focused on the topic of politicians and the Eucharist.
Biden was denied Communion by a priest at a Catholic church in South Carolina while running for president in 2019. The priest suggested in a statement to RNS at the time that the rebuke was due to Biden’s abortion views.
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